Convergent Series (short story collection)

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Convergent Series
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

  1. ISSN 0047-4959
    .
  2. ^ 1979 edition, p. 128

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