Divergence: #2

By Charles Sheffield

Book Overview

For millennia, humankind and the other intelligent races have studied the bizarre and unfathomable constructs of the legendary beings known as the Builders. But still, they are no closer to figuring... 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: 0.40 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.