{"id":1437,"date":"2019-06-25T10:07:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2019-06-25T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:07:04","slug":"remembering-charles-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/remembering-charles-sheffield\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Charles Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Charles-Sheffield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1438\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Charles-Sheffield.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Charles Sheffield was born in England on this day, June 25, in 1935.\u00a0 He passed away in 2002.\u00a0 Sheffield was one of my favorite writers when I was in high school, college, and graduate school.\u00a0 A scientist, Sheffield wrote science fiction of the &#8220;hard science&#8221; variety, but with characters who were living, breathing human beings.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t from Central Casting.\u00a0 He began his writing career after the death of his first wife in the late 70&#8217;s.\u00a0 By this time he was laready living in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield was adept at both long and short forms.\u00a0 He wrote several series, as well as stand-alone novels, such as <em>Godspeed<\/em>, which has been described as the book we would have gotten had Robert Heinlein written <em>Treasure Island<\/em>.\u00a0 Most of his novels are still in print through Baen.<\/p>\n<p>I wish someone would put together a retrospective of his work.\u00a0 Today is going to be hectic, but I&#8217;ll try to read a short piece by him and raise a glass to memory this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Sheffield was born in England on this day, June 25, in 1935.\u00a0 He passed away in 2002.\u00a0 Sheffield was one of my favorite writers when I was in high school, college, and graduate school.\u00a0 A scientist, Sheffield wrote science fiction of the &#8220;hard science&#8221; variety, but with characters who were living, breathing human beings.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[812,296],"tags":[775,860],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baen-books","category-birthday","tag-birthday","tag-charles-sheffield"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P5pJ-nb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}