Talk:Charles Sheffield

Eulogy
DAMMIT.

I can't believe he's dead. He was one of my favorite authors. His books for younger readers, like The Billion Dollar Boy, were just as good as his hard-science stuff.

He will be missed.

Stormwriter

AAS
It says that he was a President of the AAS, though he is not listed on the AAS's page of past officers (http://www.aas.org/governance/officers_and_councilors_past.php). Does anyone know anything more? AarrowOM (talk) 04:35, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * He was president of the American Astronautical Society, not the American Astronomical Society. I fixed it and added a reference. Stangbat (talk) 03:33, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

The Solar Focus
Consider "With McAndrew, Out of Focus". There appears to be no Wikipedia article on the Solar Focus, and indeed no reference to it at all in those words. Perhaps that should that be remedied. 82.163.24.100 (talk) 20:32, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Aftermath - small oops
I didn't know he was dead either. I really like his science fiction because he was a physicist and the physics in his novels was always essentially correct (or was at least a plausible extension of known physics). Therefore, I was a little surprised when I came across the following little error. I just was reading Aftermath and on page 24 (in the Bantom Books paperback edition I'm reading) I came across the following sentences: "It was still a few days short of the equinox, so at this latitude the sun never rose above the horizon.  From about ten to two in the afternoon, a strange half-light reflected off the clouds." I'm sure he meant to say "solstice" and not "equinox." At the equinox, every place on earth gets 12 hours of sun and 12 hours of dark (hence the term "equinox"). Well OK, if you were actually standing right on the poles, you'd see the sun run along the horizon the whole way around. But his description of the sun almost making it over the horizon would occur near the winter solstice, when you get continuous darkness north of the Arctic Circle. Kimaaron (talk) 04:50, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Nope. If you're at the pole, you don't see the sun all winter, until it rises at the equinox and then doesn't set until the next equinox.  If you're not far from the pole there'll be a day or two before the equinox when you get a normal-ish day.  The farther you get from the pole and the closer to the corresponding circle the more normal days you get, until at the circle you only get a 36-hour day or night at the solstice.  -- 76.15.128.192 (talk) 00:30, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

LINK to 'Man On Earth' seems to have been hijacked
I would suspect a media company bot has done this, but the reference to Charles's book 'Man On Earth' (para 1) points to a Wiki page about a TV 'Infotainment' series of the same name.

I would like it un-linked, but have fallen foul of a Wiki-admin bot recently and am now too paranoid to actually edit stuff myself, for fear of being banned.

However, if anyone is watching this page and can safely remove the link - I do not know how Charles himself would feel about the tv show, but even if it was blindingly good (and with Baldrick doing the presenting, how good could it be?) it is NOT related in any way to the book in question.

Is it?

Macthefork (talk) 15:50, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

I deleted the link earlier today, sir. The Sheffield book came out in 1983, while the TV show debuted in Dec. 2009, so it seems a safe bet they are completely unrelated.

Tom Dean (talk) 18:11, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
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