This omnibus gathers the opening trilogy of Sheffield's Heritage Universe—Summertide, Divergence, and Transcendence—following human and alien investigators as they chase engineering artifacts left scattered across the Spiral Arm by the vanished Builders. Each discovery peels back another layer of what the Builders were reaching for and why they disappeared, while a recurring cast of scientists, criminals, and hostile aliens is forced into uneasy cooperation to survive the artifacts themselves. It's the complete first arc of a hard-science-fiction mystery spanning thousands of years of future history.

Summary by Loreful, from public sources

Contents

  1. 1Summertidenovel
  2. 2Divergencenovel
  3. 3Transcendencenovel