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The Compleat McAndrew [Mass Market Paperback]

Charles Sheffield (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)


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April 1, 2000
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.


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"Like Arthur C. Clarke and Greg Bear . . . brilliantly balanced seesaw between enormous concept and lifesize characterisation". -- The London Times

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Baen (April 1, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 067157857X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671578572
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,018,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great science fiction with the emphesis on science, July 5, 2000
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This is an excellent collection of short stories. Each story explores one or more areas of Science and takes them to a future extreme. As noted in other reviews the characters are there simply to help explain the science by using the science.

The stories also get into a little humor and politics with budget problems and people mischaracterizing discoveries which adds a certain realism to the stories.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great for the head, not much for the heart, May 17, 2000
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I think these are great stories, as long as you know what you're getting for your entertainment dollar. This is hard as a rock SF with a minimum of character development. The stories act as dressing for some very cool SF ideas, and the two main characters, McAndrew and Jeanne Roker, are there mainly to move the plot along. You never get the feeling that you know these people really well. But actually, that's OK, because the ideas in the stories are of the way-out-there cool physics genre. The ideas are usually sufficiently interesting to overcome the lackluster characterization. I'm glad that I finally have all of these stories in one volume.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars great collection of "hard" SF stories, December 1, 2000
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I was glad to see that all of the McAndrew stories are available in a single volume. If you like hard science fiction, well, these stories definitely put the "science" in science fiction. Certainly character development is not a major consideration in any particular story, but by the end of the book we have a pretty good idea of what McAndrew and Jeanie are like.

One or two of the stories suffer in comparison to the others, but the overall quality is pretty high. I loved this book, but if you are not a fan of hard SF, this may not be the book for you.

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A glance at the copyright dates on the stories in this book shows that McAndrew has been with me for almost as long as I have been writing fiction. Read the first page
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billion tons per cubic centimeter, solar focus, transfer pod, balanced drive, seventh chronicle, fifty gee, shipboard time, compressed matter, life capsule, hundred gees, rogue planets, gee acceleration, landing tower, rogue world, shadow matter, one gee, mass disk, missing matter, mass detector, inner system, mass plate, suit radio, billion kilometers, hidden matter
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Captain Roker, Anna Griss, Triton Station, Control Stage, Star Harvester, Alpha Centauri, Stefan Parmikan, Will Bayes, Ark of Massingham, Nina Velez, Heinrich Grunewald, Sven Wicklund, Cyber Ark, Dorian Jarver, Ernesto Kugel, Section Seven, Anna Lisa Griss, Paul Fogarty, Food Department, Anna Criss, Emma Gowers, Jeanie Roker, Professor Limperis, Arthur Morton, Control Section
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