标题: 《Diamond Drill 》作者：- Charles Sheffield 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-7 21:22 标题: 《Diamond Drill 》作者：- Charles Sheffield 【EPUB】 The Diamond Drill CHARLES SHEFFIELD Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) , physicist and writer, was born in the UK, but lived in the U.S. after the mid-1960s. In 1998, he married writer Nancy Kress. Sheffield began publishing SF in the 1970s, and quickly gained a reputation as a new star of hard SF in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke. He in fact wrote SF of all descriptions but always with a positive view of scientific knowledge as a tool for solving problems. Sheffield was a prolific novelist, averaging more than a book a year. His novel Spheres of Heaven (2001) is a sequel to The Mind Pool (1993). He had two books out in 2002: Dark as Day, a sequel to Cold as Ice (1992), and The Amazing Dr. Darwin. His short fiction is collected in Vectors (1979), Hidden Variables (1981), Erasmus Magister (1982), The McAndrew Chronicles (1983), and Georgia On My Mind, and Other Places (1996). He also wrote Borderlands of Science: How to Think Like a Scientist and Write Science Fiction (1999). “The Diamond Drill” is from Analog, and is one of the last pieces from this clever, energetic writer, who died near the end of 2002. The central character is a smart man and proud of it, and uses his wit and knowledge to gain advantage. Charles Sheffield’s amused, intelligent narrative voice is here personified in the central character. Not a word is wasted. Sheffield cared about science and science fiction, and we will miss him and his engaging stories. I doubt if