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The Compleat McAndrew
| Author: | Charles Sheffield |
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Orion Books, 2013 Baen, 2000 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Presenting the space adventures of Arthur Morton McAndrew, space-time expert and scientist extraordinaire, and his long-suffering companion, spaceship skipper Jeanie Roker. Jeanie first met McAndrew on a routine run to Titan and quickly learned he was a genius of the caliber of Newton or Einstein. When McAndrew invented a space drive that let frail humans survive hundreds of gravities of acceleration, he disappeared while testing it, and Jeanie had to find him, using a trail of cryptic messages he had left behind.That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, in spite of the gray hairs that Jeanie began accumulating as a result of McAndrew's impractical nature and his talent for getting himself into trouble with much more practical villains, such as...
A mass-murderer of several million people A highly-placed government official whose life McAndrew saved, but in an embarrassing way, and who consequently wants to kill both him and Jeanie The ruler of a slower-than-light spaceship that left Earth a long time ago, giving it time to develop some very strange customs by the time McAndrew and Jeanie visited it.And there are still more adventures of this spacegoing odd couple in The Compleat McAndrew.Publisher's Note: Part of this book was previously published as One Man's Universe.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Charles Sheffield
- First Chronicle: Killing Vector - (1978) - short story
- Second Chronicle: Moment of Inertia - (1980) - novelette
- Third Chronicle: All the Colors of the Vacuum - (1981) - novelette
- Fourth Chronicle: The Manna Hunt - (1982) - novelette
- Fifth Chronicle: The Hidden Matter of McAndrew - (1992) - novelette
- Sixth Chronicle: The Invariants of Nature - (1993) - novelette
- Seventh Chronicle: Rogueworld - (1983) - novella
- Eighth Chronicle: With McAndrew, Out of Focus - (1999) - novelette
- Ninth Chronicle: McAndrew and the Fifth Commandment - (1999) - novelette
- Appendix: Science & Science Fiction - essay by Charles Sheffield
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