Convergent Series(1979)

Larry Niven

This collection of stories includes the title story, which looks at what happens when a nice guy messing around in witchcraft succeeds. The Nonesuch follows Doris as she discovers that a mind-reading, flesh-eating alien is stalking her. Also includes stories from the Draco's Tavern series.

Table of contents
Reprinted from The Shape of Space
"Bordered in Black" (Nebula Award nominee)
"One Face"
"Like Banquo's Ghost"
"The Meddler"
"Dry Run"
"Convergent Series" (fantasy)
"The Deadlier Weapon" (mainstream work of short fiction, not sf or fantasy)

Newer stories
"The Nonesuch" (sf based loosely on Little Red Riding Hood)
"Singularities Make Me Nervous" (whose protagonist has an art collection of "Eddie Jones originals")
"The Schumann Computer" (Draco's Tavern)
"Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing!" (Draco)
"Grammar Lesson" (Draco)
"The Subject is Closed" (Draco)
"Cruel and Unusual" (Draco)
"Transfer of Power" (fantasy inspired by Lord Dunsany's stories set at the "edge of the world")
"Cautionary Tales"
"Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation"
"Plaything"
"Mistake"
"Night on Mispec Moor"
"Wrong Way Street"
[source: wiki]