Transcendence (1992) is a novel by Charles Sheffield in the Heritage Universe series. This book is the sequel to Divergence and Summertide. After discovering new artifacts in the previous books, the team gets together again this time to search for the Zardalu unwittingly unleashed upon the galaxy during the previous adventure. This search leads them to the Zardalu Communion and the exploration of a huge space-time anomaly called the Torvil Anfract.

The sequel to this novel is Convergence.