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Cover artist
  
Eric Ladd

Media type
  
mass market paperback

ISBN
  
0-345-27740-6

Author
  
Larry Niven

Page count
  
227

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Publication date
  
1979

Pages
  
227

Originally published
  
1979

Series
  
The Draco Tavern

Genre
  
Science Fiction

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Publisher
  
Del Rey/Ballantine Books

Similar
  
Larry Niven books, Science Fiction books

Convergent Series is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by Larry Niven, published in 1979. It is also the name of one of the short stories in the collection. The collection reprints the stories originally appearing in the 1969 collection The Shape of Space that were not part of the Known Space series (The Known Space stories were previously reprinted in 1975's Tales of Known Space and 1976's The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton). The collection includes newer stories, both fantasy and sf, some of which are in the Draco's Tavern series, none of which are in the Known Space series.

Contents

Reprinted from The Shape of Space

  • "Bordered in Black" (Nebula Award nominee)
  • "One Face"
  • "Like Banquo's Ghost"
  • "The Meddler"
  • "Dry Run"
  • "Convergent Series" (fantasy)
  • "The Deadlier Weapon" (mainstream work of short fiction, not sf or fantasy)

    • Newer stories

  • "The Nonesuch" (sf based loosely on Little Red Riding Hood)
  • "Singularities Make Me Nervous" (whose protagonist has an art collection of "Eddie Jones originals")
  • "The Schumann Computer" (Draco's Tavern)
  • "Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!" (Draco)
  • "Grammar Lesson" (Draco)
  • "The Subject is Closed" (Draco)
  • "Cruel and Unusual" (Draco)
  • "Transfer of Power" (fantasy inspired by Lord Dunsany's stories set at the "edge of the world")
  • "Cautionary Tales"
  • "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation"
  • "Plaything"
  • "Mistake"
  • "Night on Mispec Moor"
  • "Wrong Way Street"

    • References

    Convergent Series (short story collection) Wikipedia
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