Convergent Series (short story collection)

Table of contents

Reprinted from The Shape of Space

• "Bordered in Black" (Nebula Award nominee)
• "One Face"
• "Like Banquo's Ghost"
• "The Meddler"
• "Dry Run"
• "Convergent Series" (fantasy)
• "The Deadlier Weapon" (mainstream work of short fiction, not sf or fantasy)

Newer stories

• "The Nonesuch" (sf based loosely on Little Red Riding Hood)
• "Singularities Make Me Nervous" (whose protagonist has an art collection of "Eddie Jones originals")
• "The Schumann Computer" (Draco's Tavern)
• "Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!" (Draco)
• "Grammar Lesson" (Draco)
• "The Subject is Closed" (Draco)
• "Cruel and Unusual" (Draco)
• "Transfer of Power" (fantasy inspired by Lord Dunsany's stories set at the "edge of the world")
• "Cautionary Tales"
• "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation"
• "Plaything"
• "Mistake"
• "Night on Mispec Moor"
• "Wrong Way Street"