General Information
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 Title:                  Divergence
 Author:                 Charles Sheffield
 Read By:                Geoffrey Howard
 Copyright:              1991
 Audiobook Copyright:    2005
 Genre:                  Fiction
 Publisher:              Blackstone Audio
 Series Name:            Heritage Universe
 Position in Series:     02
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 ISBN:                   9780786138142
 Media:                  Library Download
 Number:                 8
 Source:                 Library

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         8
 Total Duration:         9:12:24
 Total MP3 Size:         252.93
 Parity Archive:         No
 Ripped By:              3Josh & A_S
 Ripped With:            Easy CD - DA Extractor
 Encoded With:           LAME 3.98
 Encoded At:             CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 Normalize:              MP3Gain
 Noise Reduction:        None
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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For millennia, humankind and the other intelligent races have studied 
the bizarre and unfathomable constructs of the legendary beings known 
as the Builders. But for all that study, they are still no closer to 
figuring out who—or what—the Builders have been, or where they have 
gone. Then, on the world called Quake, in the midst of the violent planetary 
upheaval that is Summertide, a small group of humans and aliens witness 
the culmination of all those years of watching and waiting: the planet 
Quake opens up, and something comes out—and it looks as if, at long 
last, the discovery of the Builders themselves is at hand. All her life, 
Darya Lang has dreamed of finding the Builders, whose artifacts she 
has single-handedly cataloged for the rest of the universe. Troubleshooter 
and adventurer Hans Rebka has his own dreams of unraveling the mystery 
of those artifacts. To Louis Nenda and the Cecropian Atvar H’sial, the 
Builder artifacts represent a once-in-a-lifetime shot at untold wealth. 
And close behind them comes the others: Councilor Julius Graves, who 
does not trust anyone else to make first contact unassisted; the slaves 
J’merlia and Kallik, who crave only a reunion with their masters; and 
the embodied computer E.C. Tally, charged with finding out just what 
the rest are up to.


Creator Marketing: 
Charles Sheffield     
    	
Charles Sheffield is chief scientist of Earth Satellite Corporation. 
He is a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America and 
of the American Astronautical Society, a distinguished lecturer of the 
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a board member 
of the National Space Society. Born and educated in England, he holds 
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics and a doctorate in theoretical 
physics (general relativity and gravitation). He lives in Maryland.

Geoffrey Howard     
    	
Geoffrey Howard is a retired British journalist who strives to add warmth 
and clarity to every audiobook. Says Howard, “I try to bring the listener 
as close as possible to the experience I’m having while reading it for 
the first time.”

