Charles Sheffield
A working physicist who poured real, cutting-edge science into fiction of genuine imaginative grandeur.
Charles Sheffield was a British-American author and physicist who brought authentic scientific authority to ambitious hard science fiction. A past president of both the American Astronautical Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America, he is well known for The Web Between the Worlds — which, coincidentally with Arthur C. Clarke, imagined a space elevator — and for the genetics-driven Sigma Draconis and Heritage Universe series.
Sheffield grounded his speculation in real physics and engineering, yet reached for awe-inspiring scale and big mysteries: ancient alien artifacts, the deep future, the limits of the possible. Expect rigorous science, grand concepts, and the pleasure of an author who truly understood his subject. For readers who want hard SF written by someone with genuine scientific credentials — plausible, expansive, and full of wonder — Sheffield is a rewarding and authoritative voice well worth exploring.
- For lovers of credentialed hard SF
- Space elevators and ancient alien artifacts
- Real physics with grand-scale wonder
