The Compleat McAndrew - Omnibus Author:Charles Sheffield This book contains all nine of the McAndrew Chronicles, newly revised for this edition — Short stories present the space exploits of Arthur Morton McAndrew, and the efforts of his companion, spaceship captain Jeanie Roker, to track him down after he suddenly disappears while testing a new kind of space drive. — Presenting the space adventures of A... more »rthur 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.
Introduction (The Compleat McAndrew) • essay by Charles Sheffield
First Chronicle: Killing Vector • [McAndrew Chronicles • 1] • (1978) • short story by Charles Sheffield (variant of Killing Vector)
Second Chronicle: Moment of Inertia • [McAndrew Chronicles • 2] • (1980) • novelette by Charles Sheffield (variant of Moment of Inertia)
Third Chronicle: All the Colors of the Vacuum • [McAndrew Chronicles • 3] • (1981) • novelette by Charles Sheffield (variant of All the Colors of the Vacuum)
Fourth Chronicle: The Manna Hunt • [McAndrew Chronicles • 4] • (1982) • novelette by Charles Sheffield (variant of The Manna Hunt)
Fifth Chronicle: The Hidden Matter of McAndrew • [McAndrew Chronicles • 5] • (1992) • novelette by Charles Sheffield (variant of The Hidden Matter of McAndrew)
Sixth Chronicle: The Invariants of Nature • [McAndrew Chronicles • 6] • (1993) • novelette by Charles Sheffield (variant of The Invariants of Nature)
Seventh Chronicle: Rogueworld • [McAndrew Chronicles • 7] • (1983) • novella by Charles Sheffield (variant of Rogueworld)
Eighth Chronicle: With McAndrew, Out of Focus • [McAndrew Chronicles • 8] • (1999) • novelette by Charles Sheffield (variant of With McAndrew, Out of Focus)
Ninth Chronicle: McAndrew and the Fifth Commandment • [McAndrew Chronicles • 9] • (1999) • novelette by Charles Sheffield (variant of McAndrew and the Fifth Commandment)
Appendix: Science & Science Fiction (The Compleat McAndrew) • essay by Charles Sheffield