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Niven, Larry
CONVERGENT SERIES
book-date: 1979
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Eric Ladd
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Larry Niven's second collection (from 1969) had already been raided for the "Known Space" and "Gil the Arm" stories it contained by including those in newer collections with matching stories from those series. In 1979, Niven decided to revive/re-collect the remaining stories from The Shape of Space (the first 7 stories, below) and bundle them with an equal amount of newer, previously uncollected stories in this collection: Convergent Series. Five of these (#10 through 14) are from his "Draco Tavern" series - their first appearance in a Niven collection. The first few stories were originally part of his "Known Space" series but later dropped from the timeline because of inconsistencies with newer stories and novels. I'll recommend "The Deadlier Weapon" (not SF) and "Wrong Way Street."

Bordered In Black
One Face
Like Banquo's Ghost
The Meddler
Dry Run
Convergent Series - (original title: "The Long Night")
The Deadlier Weapon
The Nonesuch
Singularities Make Me Nervious
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

Original appearances from 1965 to 1978 - in Magazine of F&SF (5), Galaxy (2), IF (2), Ellery Queen's, Cosmos (as "3 Vignettes"), Isaac Asimov's, Analog, Vertex, Ariel #3, Stellar 1, Stellar 2, Destinies (Nov-Dec,1978.)