<p>“One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years.”<strong><em>—Publishers Weekly</em></strong></p><p>“A master of hard science fiction.”<em><strong>—Noumenon</strong></em></p><p>This collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable author, Charles Sheffield.</p><p>The stories range in length from being barely a page (“The Seventeen-Year Locusts”) to long novelettes (“The Courts of Xanadu”). They also range in mood from the “very silly to very somber.”</p><p>Each of them provides a unique and highly imaginative look at the impact of technology on the human condition from one of the most innovative minds in science fiction.</p><p>Charles Sheffield was a mathematician and a theoretical physicist who had that rare gift of making complex science understandable to everyone, as evident in this collection.</p>
