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Summertide

Summertide \Sum"mer*tide`\, n. Summer time.

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summertide

n. (context dated English) summertime.

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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.

The novel includes excerpts from the Lang Universal Artifact Catalog (Fourth Edition), describing several Builder artifacts.

Summertide has a sequel, Divergence.

Usage examples of "summertide".

Then the heart of Tellus, the smith, was proud, and sang for the joy of life, And there in the bronzing summertide he thanked the gods for his wife.

This fairest creature from earliest Spring Thus moved through the garden ministering Mi the sweet season of Summertide, And ere the first leaf looked brown--she died!

Following the event known as Summertide, in the Dobelle system, the artifacts started to change.

XIII In this high summertide, I remember with a strange feeling that there are people who, of their free choice, spend day and night in cities, who throng to the gabble of drawing-rooms, make festival in public eating-houses, sweat in the glare of the theatre.

Peter was young, and holiday and high summertide could still intoxicate.

He jumped, shifting, his wings exploding out of his form with a crack like summertide thunder.

When Perry had quietly informed Graves that access to Quake was denied until after Summertide, Graves had just as coolly asserted the authority of the Council.

The tidal energies available at Quake during Summertide were harnessed to open the planet.