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I've just finished "The Compleat McAndrew" by Charles Sheffield, originally bought in April 2000. This is a part of my "catch up with my old Baen books" project.
This is a splendid book - one of the best that I've read in a long time. It's a collection of Sheffield's "McAndrew" stories, which were originally published in magazines over the years. Hard SF at its best. The stories feature McAndrew, an impractical but brilliant physicist, and his friend Jeanie Roker, a spaceship pilot. A typical story involves them going off together somewhere - generally in connection with one of McAndrew's experiments - getting into trouble, and finding a solution using a combination of McAndrew's scientific insight and Jeanie's practicality. I only caught one scientific "blooper" in the book - Sheffield was himself a physicist; the book has an appendix which describes the scientific basis of each story in the book.
VERY highly recommended to anyone who enjoys hard SF.
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