Summertide

Summertide (1990) is a science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield written within the Heritage Universe. The story takes place millennia in the future, with humans having extensively colonized our spiral arm of the Milky Way and having encountered a number of intelligent alien races. Littered throughout the galaxy are hundreds of massive abandoned engineering projects built by a mysterious race, referred to as The Builders, extinct for 3 million years. An eclectic group of scientists and opportunists are descending upon one such artifact at a time when its surrounding environment is extremely dangerous to study an unusual phenomenon.

Summertide has a sequel, Divergence.

Translations

Russian: "Летний прилив" ("Summer Tide"), 1995, 2003, 2004

Novels by Charles Sheffield

The Proteus Universe	Sight of Proteus (1978) Proteus Unbound (1989) Proteus In The Underworld (1995)

The Heritage Universe	Summertide (1990) Divergence (1991) Transcendence (1992) Convergence (1997) Resurgence (2002)

Other novels	The Web Between The Worlds (1979) My Brother's Keeper (1982, revised 1998) The Selkie (1982) (with David Bischoff) The McAndrew Chronicles (1983) Between the Strokes of Night (1985) The Nimrod Hunt (1986, revised 1993) Trader's World (1988) Brother to Dragons (1992) Cold as Ice (1992) Godspeed (1993) The Mind Pool (1993) The Judas Cross (1994) - With David Bischoff The Ganymede Club (1995) Higher Education (1995) The Billion Dollar Boy (1997) Putting Up Roots (1997) Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1997) Aftermath (1998) The Cyborg from Earth (1998) Starfire (1999) The Spheres of Heaven (2001) Dark as Day (2002) The Amazing Dr. Darwin (2002)