The family soon after moved to the United States, where Sheffield began working in the field of practical physics, a career that would lead him to a consultancy with NASA and the role of chief scientist at the Earth Satellite Corporation in Washington. They had a son, Charles Christopher ('Kit'), and a daughter, Ann Elizabeth.

During his studies he met and later married his first wife, Sarah Sanderson, whose death in 1977 became the catalyst for his writing career. Sheffield was Toastmaster at BucConeer, the 1998 World Science Fiction Convention in Baltimore.īefore he died, he was writing a column for the Baen Books web site his last column concerned the discovery of the brain tumour that led to his death.Ĭharles Sheffield attended St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Double First in Mathematics and Physics. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for his novel Brother to Dragons. He won the Nebula and Hugo awards for his novelette ' Georgia on My Mind' and the 1992 John W. The association gave rise to many technical papers and two popular non-fiction books, Earthwatch and Man on Earth, both collections of false-colour and enhanced images of Earth from space. Sheffield served as Chief Scientist of Earth Satellite Corporation, a company that processed remote sensing satellite data. Clarke's novel on the subject, The Fountains of Paradise, a coincidence that amused them both. His novel The Web Between the Worlds, featuring the construction of a space elevator, was published almost simultaneously with Arthur C.

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Charles Sheffield (25 June 1935 – 2 November 2002) was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction writer who served as a President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and of the American Astronautical Society.

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