Charles Sheffield

Set in the universe as Sheffield's previous novel Cold As Ice, Dark As Day is a hard science fiction novel set 30 years after the Great War, and interplanetary war that nearly destroyed the entire human race, and left horrifyingly dangerous weapons caches to threaten human survival. The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War, a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race, and the population of the outer moons,...

"One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years."-Publishers Weekly "A master of hard science fiction."-Noumenon This collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable author, Charles Sheffield. 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." Each...

The Godspeed Drive. It is the faster-than-light spaceship drive that made human colonization of the galaxy possible. But it was not invented by humans - it was found in the wreck of an alien ship that drifted into the Solar System. No one understood everything about how it worked, but it linked a hundred star systems together, and made marginal planets like Erin in the Maveen system habitable. But one day the Godspeed ships stopped coming. Erin and...

For millennia, humankind and the other intelligent races have studied the bizarre and unfathomable constructs of the legendary beings known as the Builders. But still, they are no closer to figuring out who—or what—the Builders were, or where they have gone. For Darya Lang, who has single-handedly catalogued their artifacts for the rest of the universe, finding the Builders has been a life-long dream. To Louis Nenda and the Cecropian Atvar H'sial,...

The search for the Builders has led expert Darya Lang, adventurer Hans Rebka, and treasure hunters Louis Nenda and Atvar H'sial far outside the spiral arm, where they must confront the Zardalu who enslave entire races and exterminate others.