Convergence (1997) is a science fiction novel in the Heritage Universe series by American writer Charles Sheffield.

Separately, this title also names a 2022 novel by Craig Alanson which introduces his Convergence book series.

After millions of years of apparent inaction, the Builder artifacts are changing quickly.

After exploring several new artifacts, rediscovering the existence of a race thought to be dead for millennia, and finding that race's home planet in the midst of an enormous artifact, the adventures of this eclectic team become even stranger.

In this book the characters explore several old artifacts to find that they have changed.