Convergent Series is a collection of science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 short stories by Larry Niven

Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven / ˈlæri ˈnɪvən/ is an American science fiction author. His best-known work is Ringworld , which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics...

, published in 1979. It is also the name of one of the short stories in the collection. The collection reprints the Known Space

Known Space

Known Space is the fictional setting of some dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by author Larry Niven. It has also in part been used as a shared universe in the Man-Kzin Wars spin-off anthologies sub-series....

 stories originally appearing in The Shape of Space, and includes newer stories. Some of the stories are in the Draco Tavern series. The collection contains:

• "Bordered in Black" (Nebula Award
  Nebula Award
  The Nebula Award is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America , for the best science fiction/fantasy fiction published in the United States during the previous year...
  
  nominee)
• "One Face"
• "Like Banquo's Ghost"
• "The Meddler"
• "Dry Run"
• "Convergent Series"
• "The Deadlier Weapon"
• "The Nonesuch"
• "Singularities Make Me Nervous"
• "The Schumann Computer"
• "Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!"
• "Grammar Lesson"
• "The Subject is Closed"
• "Cruel and Unusual"
• "Transfer of Power"
• "Cautionary Tales"
• "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation"
• "Plaything"
• "Mistake"
• "Night on Mispec Moor"
• "Wrong Way Street"

External links

• Convergent Series publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database