Convergent Series

HUMANS AND ALIENS, SCIENTISTS
AND CRIMINALS
AND A MENACE BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD

Hans Rebka had been everywhere and done everything. Now he was going to try to solve the galaxy's most persistent mysteryhe was going to penetrate Paradox.

Paradox is an Artifact, one of the huge and hugely mystifying structures left by an ancient, supremely powerful and vanished race. Many had entered Paradox before Hans Rebkabut no one has ever left, at least not with mind intact.

But as a troubleshooter, Hans Rebka is in a class by himself. Though he doesn't know it, he's about to uncover the secret of the Artifactsand by so doing, loose on the galaxy the most hideous menace the humans or any other alien civilization has ever encountered.

Publisher's Note: Convergent Series was previously published in parts as Summertide and Divergence, and has been revised for this first unitary edition.

". . . thrilling. ... If anyone can do a better job ... I'd like to know about him." Washington Post

"... in the manner of Arthur C. Clarke's Rama books." The New York Times

Cover art by Gary Freeman

Paperback

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, July 1997

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ISBN: 0-671-87791-7

Summertide copyright © 1990 and Divergence © 1991, both by Charles Sheffield

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