death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date period spouse genre article_title name occupation
silver spring , maryland , u.s. 02 november 2002 kingston upon hull , yorkshire , england british 25 june 1935 1977 -lrb- professional -rrb- -- 2002 -lrb- fiction -rrb- 1962 -- ? nancy kress -lrb- 1998 -- death -rrb- science fiction charles sheffield
 charles sheffield writer , scientist
charles sheffield

charles a. sheffield -lrb- 25 june 1935 -- 2 november 2002 -rrb- was an english-born mathematician , physicist and science fiction writer who served as a president of the science fiction and fantasy writers of america and of the american astronautical society .
his novel `` the web between the worlds '' , featuring the construction of a space elevator , was published almost simultaneously with arthur c. clarke 's novel on the subject , `` the fountains of paradise '' , a coincidence that amused them both .
sheffield served as chief scientist of earth satellite corporation , a company that processed remote sensing satellite data .
the association gave rise to many technical papers and two popular non-fiction books , `` earthwatch '' and `` man on earth '' , both collections of false-colour and enhanced images of earth from space .
he won the nebula and hugo awards for his novelette `` georgia on my mind '' and the 1992 john w. campbell memorial award for best science fiction novel for his novel `` brother to dragons '' .
sheffield was toastmaster at bucconeer , the 1998 world science fiction convention in baltimore .
before he died , he was writing a column for the baen books web site ; his last column concerned the discovery of the brain tumour that led to his death .
