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The Heritage Universe is a sequence of five novels written by scientist and science fiction author Charles Sheffield. Summertide (1990), Divergence (1991), Transcendence (1992), Convergence (1997), and Resurgence (2002) depict a human future many thousands of years from today.

Mankind has colonized most of the local spiral arm of the galaxy, and along the way has encountered thousands of gigantic artifacts left behind by an ancient race referred to as the Builders. The purpose behind these artifacts remains a mystery, as no Builder, living or dead, has ever been found. Some artifacts include whole engineered worlds, bent regions of spacetime, and other completely mysterious technologies.

Each book centers on the adventures of a group of humans and aliens who meet due to common interest in the Builders in Summertide, and conclude their first adventure in Convergence. Resurgence was to be the first book in the series that continued the adventures of the same group, but the author passed away shortly after it was published.