Divergence: #2

by Charles Sheffield

Book Overview

A group of single-minded researchers--among them Darya Lang, Hans Rebka, and Louis Nenda and the Cecropian--follow the trail toward the Builder artifacts released from the Quake during Summertide, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345369386
• ISBN13: 9780345369383
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

Not having read the first of these it appears a couple of the groups of characters have a history, a pair of rogue 'entrepreneur' parters, a human and an alien, and a group that includes a researcher. Here's another story of the search for ancient alien race technology, and the race themselves, the Builders. This leads to a surprise trip and a nasty revelation that they aren't the only ones there. Throughout the novel there are 'excerpts' from a Galactic Encyclopedia type of publication, or database, that fills you in on the various species, between chapters. The book is a little ordinary at the start - which is possibly also a function of not being familiar with exactly what happened before, but gets much better later on. A 3 for the first part, and a 4 for the later part, if you like. 3.5 out of 5

Alien and Human Relations

The engrossing themes of Divergence is alien-human, slave-master, computer entity-human-alien, and extremely. advanced entity-human-alien-computer being relations.