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CONVERGENT SERIES -- A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES by Larry Niven
v 1.0 (12-25-1998)



(c) 1979 by Larry Niven.

STORIES INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK:
"Bordered in Black"
"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"




INTRODUCTION

This book is my solution to a moral problem. If you've opened this book, you're already involved,
and I suppose you'd better hear about it.

In 1969 I published a short-story collection, The Shape of Space. It was my second collection, my
fourth book in five years of writing. The stories were a varied lot, ranging from vignette to
novelet length and from hard science fiction to fantasy and mainstream.

Half the stories were set in a single consistent future. The Known Space timeline now covers a
thousand years of the future, a huge volume of interstellar space, three collections, and four
novels.

In 1975 I did something a lot of friends and strangers had been nagging me to do. I gathered
together all of the Known Space stories and published most of them in Tales of Known Space. Two