Dancing With Myself

This collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable author, Charles Sheffield. A mix of SF short stories and science fact essays, the ideas explored here in fact and fiction, nanotechnology, the future of space flight, and more, are going to shape our world as surely as communications and electronics have been shaping our present. 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 of them provides a unique and highly imaginative look at the impact of technology on the human condition. Sheffield's longer works include Earthwatch, Man on Earth, Cold as Ice, and Brother to Dragons.Contents: Introduction (Dancing With Myself) • essay by Charles Sheffield Out of Copyright (1989) / short story by Charles Sheffield Tunicate, Tunicate, Wilt Thou Be Mine? (1985) / novelette by Charles Sheffield Counting Up (1988) • essay by Charles Sheffield A Braver Thing (1990) / novelette by Charles Sheffield The Grand Tour (1987) • short story by Charles Sheffield Classical Nightmares ...... And Quantum Paradoxes (1989) • essay by Charles Sheffield Nightmares of the Classical Mind (1989) / novelette by Charles Sheffield The Double Spiral Staircase (1990) / short story by Charles Sheffield The Unlicked Bear-Whelp: A Worm's Eye Look at Chaos Theory (1990) • essay by Charles Sheffield The Seventeen-Year Locusts (1983) / short story by Charles Sheffield The Courts of Xanadu (1988) / novelette by Charles Sheffield C-Change [Probability Zero] (1992) / short story by Charles Sheffield Unclear Weather: A Miscellany of Disasters (1988) • essay by Charles Sheffield Godspeed (1990) / short story by Charles Sheffield Dancing With Myself (1989) / short story by Charles Sheffield Something for Nothing: A Biography of the Universe • essay by Charles Sheffield “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 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. 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.