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The Heritage Universe is a fictional setting created by Charles Sheffield for a series of science fiction novels. The date of the setting is several thousand years into the future, during a time when human space colonization has filled much of the local spiral arm of the galaxy. The primary feature of this universe are a series of immense engineering artifacts constructed by an ancient race referred to as The Builders. The Builders, however, are no longer visibly present in the universe. ==Books== Books in the Heritage Universe include: *''Summertide'' ("book 1") *''Divergence'' ("book 2") * *''Convergent Series'' - Compilation of books 1 and 2. *''Transcendence'' ("book 3") * *''The Heritage Universe'' - Compilation of books 1, 2, and 3. *''Convergence'' ("book 4") * *''Transvergence'' - Compilation of books 3 and 4, often listed as a 6th book of the Heritage Universe. *''Resurgence'' ("book 5") One common thread between all the books in the series is the exploration of one or more Builder artifacts. Each exploration reveals new and previously unknown facts about the Builders and leads the characters to speculate about the nature of the Builders and their current whereabouts. Each book ends with a very different conclusion based upon the newly discovered evidence. It would appear from the Foreword to ''Convergence'' by Sheffield that even he couldn't decide what the Builders should be. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heritage Universe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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