Reviews for The McAndrew chronicles

The average rating for The McAndrew chronicles based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-07 00:00:00 Jose A. Sierra The McAndrew Chronicles (1983) 242 pages by Charles Sheffield Five novelettes packaged into one book. I've had subscriptions to Analog and F&SF since the early eighties, and I let my subscription to IAsfm lapse about six years ago. So some or all of the stories were familiar having been previously published. They are told from the point of view of Jeannie Roker, a spaceship pilot who does the Earth to Titan run. Being that the title of the book is The McAndrew Chronicles, McAndrew, the super scientist/engineer is the other lead character. His major work is with Kerr-Newman black holes, a.k.a. kernels. The stories have continuity. In the first story Roker mentions to McAndrew that she'd like to go faster that the 2.5g limit that the human body can withstand. In the second story he has actually invented a ship which has a way, gravitationally, to counter the thrust of the engines. If you like the short story format, and I do, this book has the advantage that you don't have to learn new characters for each story. I enjoyed the book even though I had read the stories 25 years ago.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-16 00:00:00 Amarak Panya This has been a reliable comfort-read for years, and is one of my favorite Sheffields. Jeannie Roker, a spaceship pilot who's the taxi-driver for super-scientist McAndrew, who specializes in Kerr-Newman black holes. My memory is somewhat dim, but McAndrew works for an Institute of Knowledge of some sort, which also employs Jeannie, who's the viewpoint character and a likeable narrator. Here's a sample story, "Killing Vector": And here's another, not collected here. I should reread it. I miss Sheffield. "McAndrew and the Law": You can read more of the details at John Loyd's review, If you missed these years ago, keep an eye out for the collection, which is readily available used.