The Convergent Series

Name: The Convergent Series
Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780345314109

by Unknown Author

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227 pages1983Del ReyISBN 9780345314109

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Contents: vii · Introduction · in 1 · Bordered in Black · ss F&SF Apr ’66 25 · One Face · nv Galaxy Jun ’65 55 · Like Banquo’s Ghost · ss If Sep ’68 61 · The Meddler · nv F&SF Oct ’68 87 · Dry Run · ss F&SF May ’68 99 · Convergent Series [“The Long Night”] · ss F&SF Mar ’67 107 · The Deadlier Weapon · ss EQMM Jun ’68 119 · The Nonesuch · ss F&SF Dec ’74 127 · Singularities Make Me Nervous · ss Stellar #1, ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine, 1974 141 · The Schumann Computer [Draco Tavern] · ss Destinies Jan ’79 147 · Assimilating Our Culture, That’s What They’re Doing! [Draco Tavern] · ss Destinies Nov ’78 153 · Grammar Lesson [Draco Tavern] · ss Cosmos SF&F Magazine May ’77 159 · The Subject Is Closed [Draco Tavern] · ss Cosmos SF&F Magazine May ’77 165 · Cruel and Unusual [Draco Tavern] · vi Cosmos SF&F Magazine May ’77 169 · Transfer of Power · ss Ariel v3 ’78 177 · Cautionary Tales · ss IASFM Jul/Aug ’78 183 · Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation · vi Analog Aug ’77 189 · Plaything · ss Worlds of If Jul/Aug ’74 195 · Mistake · vi Stellar #2, ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine, 1976 199 · Night on Mispec Moor · ss Vertex Aug ’74 213 · Wrong-Way Street · ss Galaxy Apr ’65

Publication Details

Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 1983
Pages: 227
ISBN: 9780345314109
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Laurence van Cott Niven — known as Larry Niven — is an American science fiction writer. His best-known work is Ringworld (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. The Science Fiction Writers of America named him the 2015 recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award. His work is primarily hard science fiction, using big science concepts and theoretical physics. It also often includes elements of detective fiction and adventure stories. His fantasy includes the series The Magic Goes Away, rational fantasy dealing with magic as a non-renewable resource. Niven was born in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He did a year of graduate work in mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles. On September 6, 1969, he married Marilyn Joyce "Fuzzy Pink" Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. He is an agnostic. Source: Wikipedia