Hidden Variables

by Charles Sheffield

Book Overview

Charles A. Sheffield was an English-born mathematician, physicist and science fiction author, whose words are collected here in one of his most iconic short story collections ever published, Hidden Variables. Known for his ability to incorporate real science into his fiction, Sheffield's stories exposed the potential flaws and triumphs of the human mind, by showing us that even if we've evolved enough to gain mastery of technology and advanced science,...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441329918
• ISBN13: 9780441329915
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Short stories... some awesome, some oddball

Hidden Variables is a collection of Sheffield's short stories. I love Sheffield's stuff and I found most of this book utterly fascinating. These include some of the chapters you can find in "The Compleat McAndrew," a unique perspective on time travel, a short but well-written piece on one man's conversion after a murder, and a very nifty murder mystery involving a special friction-reducing chemical. For those stories, I would rate the book a solid 5. However, he also wrote a few stories involving pigs in order to prove a point or satisfy a bet of some sort. I think the book would have been better off without them. But the rest were well worth reading. I recommend it.