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Title: The Spheres of Heaven by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0-671-31856-X Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Enjoyable read.
Comment: This is a sequel to The Mind Pool. I think it's better. It involves a scratch team of humans, each with unique capabilities and each flirting with the wrong side of the law, who undertake a hazardous interstellar trip that lands them in another universe confronted by hostile, militaristic aliens with superior technology. I good romp, to be sure. One of its themes is that the faults of humans (violence, greed, deviousness, etc.) are survival traits. Charles Sheffield has become one of my favorite authors.
Rating: 5
Summary: Spheres fo Heaven
Comment: I first ordered Spheres of Heaven, not knowing it was a sequel, and subsequently ordered the first book, The Mind Pool. I was glad I did and was pleasantly re-introduced to science fiction after a long time away from this genre.
The Spheres of Heaven, continues (and evolves) with the adventures of Chan, and introduces a new character, the self effacing mechanical genius, Bony, who is ordered around by an incompetant and lazy captain whom you cannot wish enough bad things upon.
The book bounces back and forth between their two adventures in alternating chapters, forcing the reader at the end of each to want to race through the following chapter to pick up where they left off. This creates a self perpetuating "mad rush" of reading, making this book the quintesential "page turner"!
The supporting characters are well thought out and each is interesting enough to warrent their inclusion. So too, are the aliens. This writer even makes the computers and other technology interesting and vital characters in this book.
I'm back to reading sci-fi again, and I attribute this to the craftmanship apparent in Sheffeild's books.
Rating: 4
Summary: a fine soap opera!
Comment: Charles Sheffield is a mathematician and physicist and has been the past president of both the American Astronautical Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. He has also been the chief scientist of the Earth Satellite Corporation.
He also writes a dam' fine science fiction opera! A very fine read & something I enjoyed immensely. Science fiction is richer because of Sheffield's talent.
I'm looking forward to his next endeavor with baited breath. His background allows him to bring the concepts of science to light in a new & imaginative way.
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Title: Dark as Day by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812580311 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Cold As Ice by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0812511638 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Starfire by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0553577395 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Convergent Series by Charles Sheffield ISBN: 0671877917 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Echoes of Earth by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0441008925 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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