Georgia On My Mind and Other Places
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Publisher Description
A collection of some of the finest short stories penned by a master of hard science fiction, this anthology includes Charles Sheffield's highly acclaimed novelette, Georgia On My Mind, which won both the Hugo and Nebula when originally published in 1993. The accompanying stories were written by the author between 1987 and 1994.
Table of Contents:
The Feynman Saltation
The Bee's Kiss
Millennium
Fifteen-Love on the Dead Man's Chest
Deep Safari
Beyond the Golden Road
Health Care System
Humanity Test
That Strain Again ...
Destroyer of Worlds
The Fifteenth Station of the Cross
Trapalanda
Obsolete Skill
Georgia On My Mind
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Physicist Sheffield's (Godspeed) sixth collection of short stories, written in the late 1980s and early '90s, affirms his place as a central exponent of hard SF. ``Georgia on My Mind,'' which won a Nebula Award, features a narrator who displays less personality than the letters and diaries of the mysterious ``L.D.,'' the putative author of a 150-year-old manual for a mechanical computer. Sheffield proceeds on the understanding that hard SF is well suited to the form of the mystery, in which a narrator takes second seat behind the plot and its specific expression (as, for example, Doyle's Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries). His spare prose serves as background lighting, revealing no more than needs to be shown. Tales such as ``The Feynman Saltation'' and the exemplary ``Humanity Test'' are effective for discoveries that do not depend on their main characters' intuition. Occasionally, as in ``Trapalanda,'' the payoff is inadequate, but generally these 15 stories satisfy, presenting the readers with valuable ideas from a master craftsman.
