| Memorial to Charles Sheffield by Sheila Williams |
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Charles Sheffield (1935-2002)
Charles Sheffield, a physicist born in England, was the author of nearly thirty novels and over a hundred stories. His first tale for Asimov’s, "The Seventeen-Year Locusts," was published in January 1983 in the same issue where my name first appeared on the masthead. It was followed by one of my all-time favorite stories, "Tunicate, Tunicate, Wilt Thou Be Mine?" (June 1985), and sixteen other tales. His Hugo and Nebula awards, however, came for "Georgia on My Mind"(1993)–a story that was first published in Analog, our sister magazine.
In 1998, Charles married SF author Nancy Kress. He was charming and witty. He once told me that he sent his nice stories to Analog and his nasty stories to Asimov’s. We would have been delighted to have had first pick on all of them. He will be missed by all of us.
–Sheila Williams
Photo courtesy C. N. Brown/Locus
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"Memorial to Charles Sheffield" by Sheila Williams, copyright © 2003 with permission of the author.
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