Convergent Series (short story collection)

Convergent Series is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American writer 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 science fiction, some of which are in the Draco's Tavern series, none of which are in the Known Space series. The collection won the 1980 Locus Award for Best Single Author Collection.[1]

Convergent Series
Cover of the first edition.
AuthorLarry Niven
Cover artistEric Ladd
GenreScience fiction
PublisherDel Rey/Ballantine Books
Publication date
1979
Media typeMass market paperback
Pages227
ISBN0-345-27740-6

Table of 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")[2]
  • "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
  1. "1980 Locus Award Results". Locus. Oakland, CA: Locus Publications. 13 (7): 1. July 1980. ISSN 0047-4959.
  2. 1979 edition, p. 128


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