Convergent Series
Larry Niven
Ballantine Books
This impressive collection of Larry Niven's short stories -- science fiction, fantasy, contemporary fiction, and mixed genres (detective-noir-meets-aliens) -- shows the range of this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author's fiction, with many clever twists. A feast for lovers of the short story.Contents:Bordered in Black (1966)One Face (1965)Like Banquo's Ghost (1968)The Meddler (1968)Dry Run (1968)Convergent Series (1967)The Deadlier Weapon (1968)The Nonesuch (1974)Singularities Make Me Nervous (1974)The Schumann Computer (1979)Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing! (1978)Grammar Lesson (1977)The Subject Is Closed (1977)Cruel and Unusual (1977)Transfer of Power (1978)Cautionary Tales (1978)Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation (1977)Plaything (1974)Mistake (1976)Night on Mispec Moor (1974)Wrong Way Street (1965)### About the AuthorBorn April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines. Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we’ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences. www.larryniven.net