- Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Baen (April 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 067157857X
- ISBN-13: 978-0671578572
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #794,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful!,
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This review is from: The Compleat McAndrew (Mass Market Paperback)
This was one of the best books I have ever read! It's about the best physicist, his expeditions in space, and the captain of a spaceship who has to follow him all over the universe. In the time period in which this is set, a mechanism has been invented that allows you to travel at faster-than-light speeds. The physicist, McAndrew, improves this mechanism by 100 percent. The spaceship captain, Jeanie Roker, has become his friend, and tries hard to make sure he doesn't get into trouble. However, together they face the "Headmistress" (I would call her that, based on her personality) of a slower-than-light spaceship with weird customs, a serial-killer, and many other people and machines that wish to kill them. Most of the time they don't deserve it, though, and they are always able to solve the problem.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Put on your thinking cap and get on board,
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This review is from: The Compleat McAndrew (Mass Market Paperback)
I am not fond of futuristic science fiction novels. I was not fond of futuristic science fiction novels, that is... Sheffield has converted me. His pseudo-physics speculation is fascinating. His stories keep your interest and don't waste time with undue detail. His characterization lags by comparison to the rest of the story - but is still better than most of your sci fi/fantasy writers. You spend the whole book thinking, "That's really cool" while you keep turning the pages to see what happens next. I highly recommend it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great collection of "hard" SF stories,
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This review is from: The Compleat McAndrew (Mass Market Paperback)
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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