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Summary: The first ending to Sheffield's Heritage Universe series
Review: Originally planned as just a trilogy, Sheffield's Heritage Universe series originally ended with this book. Like the preceding novels, it's a treasure hunt story with an element of scientific speculation, here about quantam mechanics, thrown in. Here the hunt is for the Zardalu, the villains of DIVERGENCE. They're alive and well and breeding, but the Federation doesn't believe they've returned after their 11,000 year absence, so Darya Lang and company from DIVERGENCE set out to bring back a live specimen. They find the Zardalu homeworld in a mysterious region of space called the Torvil Anfract, a place where the some of the phenomena of quantam physics manifest themselves on a macrosopic level. Besides exciting escapes, scientific puzzles, and more encounters with the sentient constructs of the Builders, Sheffield does a nice job with his characters. Louis Nenda continues to deny, unconvincingly, that he has feelings for Lang. Kallik and J'merlia joyously return to servitude. One of the fe
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