Godspeed (Sheffield novel)

Godspeed is a 1993 novel by American author Charles Sheffield.

On the isolated planet of Erin, young Jay Hara has grown up on dreams of space and legends of the fabled Godspeed drive, which once allowed humans to travel at translight speeds. After meeting Paddy Enderton, a seedy old spacer, Jay is drawn into a chase which carries him off the planet, into the asteroid belt and its tiny worldlets, and finally to the remnants of an ancient space station where the Godspeed drive may still exist. Along the way, Jay is at once awed and terrified of the piratical spacers who crew the ship, particularly the smooth-talking, ruthless captain, Daniel Shaker. Struggling to reconcile his admiration for Shaker with the man's evident viciousness, Jay eventually comes into his own as a spacer and an adult.

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

Characters	Billy Bones Captain Alexander Smollett Captain Flint Ben Gunn Israel Hands Jim Hawkins Dr. Livesey Long John Silver Squire Trelawney

Films	Treasure Island (1918) Treasure Island (1920) Treasure Island (1934) The Secret of Treasure Island (1938) Treasure Island (1950) Long John Silver (1954) Return to Treasure Island (1954) Dōbutsu Takarajima (1971) Treasure Island (1972) The Treasure Planet (1982) Treasure Island (1982) Treasure Island (1985) Treasure Island (1988) Treasure Island (1990) Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Treasure Island (1999) Treasure Planet (2002) Pirates of Treasure Island (2006) Hawkins and Silver (2015)

Television	The Adventures of Long John Silver (1958) Treasure Island (1977) Treasure Island (1978) Return to Treasure Island (1986) Treasure Island (1987) Treasure Island in Outer Space (1987) The Legends of Treasure Island (1993) Treasure Island (2012) Black Sails (2014)

Video games	Treasure Island (1984) Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon (2002) Destination Treasure Island (2007)

Other adaptations	Pieces of Eight (musical) Godspeed (novel) The Resurrection Casket (novel)

Related	Black Spot Legend of the Cybermen Silver "Shiver my timbers" "Dead Man's Chest"

Bibliography by Charles Sheffield

The Proteus Universe	Sight of Proteus (1978) Proteus Unbound (1989) Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

The Heritage Universe	Summertide (1990) Divergence (1991) Transcendence (1992) Convergence (1997) Resurgence (2002)

Other novels	The Web Between The Worlds (1979) My Brother's Keeper (1982, revised 1998) The Selkie (1982) (with David Bischoff) The McAndrew Chronicles (1983) Between the Strokes of Night (1985) The Nimrod Hunt (1986, revised 1993) Trader's World (1988) Brother to Dragons (1992) Cold as Ice (1992) Godspeed (1993) The Mind Pool (1993) The Judas Cross (1994) - With David Bischoff The Ganymede Club (1995) Higher Education (1995) The Billion Dollar Boy (1997) Putting Up Roots (1997) Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1997) Aftermath (1998) The Cyborg from Earth (1998) Starfire (1999) The Spheres of Heaven (2001) Dark as Day (2002) The Amazing Dr. Darwin (2002)

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