Dancing With Myself

This collection contains sixteen stories and science articles by the remarkable author, Charles Sheffield. A mix of SF short stories and science fact essays, the ideas explored here in fact and fiction, nanotechnology, the future of space flight, and more, are going to shape our world as surely as communications and electronics have been shaping our present. The stories range in length from being barely a page ('The Seventeen-Year Locusts') to long novelettes ('The Courts of Xanadu'). They also range in mood from the very silly to very somber. Each of them provides a unique and highly imaginative look at the impact of technology on the human condition. Sheffield's longer works include Earthwatch, Man on Earth, Cold as Ice, and Brother to Dragons.

Contents:

Introduction (Dancing With Myself) • essay by Charles Sheffield

Out of Copyright (1989) / short story by Charles Sheffield

Tunicate, Tunicate, Wilt Thou Be Mine? (1985) / novelette by Charles Sheffield

Counting Up (1988) • essay by Charles Sheffield

A Braver Thing (1990) / novelette by Charles Sheffield

The Grand Tour (1987) • short story by Charles Sheffield

Classical Nightmares ...... And Quantum Paradoxes (1989) • essay by Charles Sheffield

Nightmares of the Classical Mind (1989) / novelette by Charles Sheffield

The Double Spiral Staircase (1990) / short story by Charles Sheffield

The Unlicked Bear-Whelp: A Worm's Eye Look at Chaos Theory (1990) • essay by Charles Sheffield

The Seventeen-Year Locusts (1983) / short story by Charles Sheffield

The Courts of Xanadu (1988) / novelette by Charles Sheffield

C-Change [Probability Zero] (1992) / short story by Charles Sheffield

Unclear Weather: A Miscellany of Disasters (1988) • essay by Charles Sheffield

Godspeed (1990) / short story by Charles Sheffield

Dancing With Myself (1989) / short story by Charles Sheffield

Something for Nothing: A Biography of the Universe • essay by Charles Sheffield

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