Convergent Series (short story collection)
ISBN 0-345-27740-6 | |
Convergent Series is a collection of
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]
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 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
External links
- Convergent Series title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database