Resurgence: A Novel of the Heritage Universe

by Charles Sheffield

Book Overview

Hans Rebka, interstellar trouble-shooter, had solved the mystery of the gigantic Artefacts and defeated the warlike Zardala - but that was only the warm-up for the main event. In one arm of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743488199
• ISBN13: 9780743488198
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

Getting the band back together. As if things weren't interesting enough for Ethical Councillor Julian Graves and his cohabitant with Builders and Artifact instability, he gets another problem. Someone is disposing of stellar systems in the Sagittarius Arm. So, time to put together the closest thing he has to a group of experts to go and investigate. He also throws in a team of survival specialists as added manpower. So for Hans, Darya, Lou and At and Crew, E. C. Tally, Julian and others it is back into more interstellar danger, with the possibility of tackling something more powerful than the Builders themselves. Fairly similar in quality to the rest of the series but perhaps one of the best two books. 3.5 out of 5

Best of the Heritage Universe Series

In the fifth novel of the Heritage Universe, the Builders, those aliens who scattered around huge, occasionally useful, sometimes deadly, artifacts about our part of the galaxy, have competition. Another force is destroying their work and sucking the heat and life out of entire solar systems.Troubleshooter Hans Rebka, obsessed Builder scholar Darya Lang, the shady team of Louis Nenda and Atvar H'sial, their strangely loyal slaves, the exuberant and impatient E. C. Tally (an embodied computer), and Ethical Counselor Julian Graves again find themselves exploring the Builders' works and speculating as to what they mean.This may be the most humorous book of the series, and the characters are at their most interesting. The action set pieces in frozen solar systems are inventive and suspenseful.This is not a good entry point for the series, though. You'll want to follow the enigma of the Builders from the beginning starting with Sheffield's _Convergent Series_ and then _Transvergence_. And, unfortunately, with Sheffield's death last year, some Builder questions will remain unanswered.