Chaos Chronicles

When John Bandicut sets out across the surface of Triton, he's hardly ready for the storm of chaos that's about to blow through his life. The alien quarx that soon inhabits his mind is humanity's first contact with an alien life-a contact Bandicut can reveal to no one. The quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent a cometary collision that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help. If Bandicut chooses to trust the quarx, he must break all the rules-indeed, sacrifice his life as he knows it-to prevent humanity's greatest cataclysm. Leaving friends and lover behind, hurtling across the solar system in a stolen spaceship, Bandicut can only pray that his actions will save the Earth. Even if he doesn't live to see it again. From the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End. DRM-free ebook edition.Original print edition by Tor Books. Now in trade paperback from Starstream Publications. Also available as an audiobook, narrated by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki!REVIEWS AND QUOTES:One of the best SF novels of the year - Science Fiction Chronicle"Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. Neptune Crossing combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat." -Gregory Benford"Masterfully captures the joy of exploration." - Publishers Weekly"Reveals an alien encounter brushing hard against a soul, and takes us from there to the far reaches of the cosmos, all with the sure touch of a writer who knows his science. Jeff Carver has done it again!" -David Brin"A complex and believable protagonist-an ordinary man rising to extraordinary circumstances-and an alien presence that is at once convincingly strange and deeply real. I'm really glad to have read this one." -Melissa Scott, author of Dreamships and Trouble and Her Friends"One of the very best things Carver has written, a traditional adventure filled with mystery and wonder and featuring a likable and believable protagonist thrust onto a stage for which he is ill prepared." - Science Fiction Chronicle"A roaring, cross-the-solar-system adventure of the first water. The kind of stuff that made us all love science fiction." -Jack McDevitt, author of Seeker and Chindi"High-octane space adventure: mystery, humor, theoretical physics, and one of the more interesting SF aliens you've likely encountered in a long while." -Allen Steele"With works such as The Infinity Link... and his popular Star Rigger novels, Carver won acclaim as a master craftsman of compelling hard science fiction. This captivating opener to a new series incorporating the emerging science of chaos theory should keep that reputation flourishing... Carver has created yet another electrifying scenario as well as a winning combination in Bandicut and the sometimes vulnerable yet superintelligent quarx. First-rate entertainment." - Booklist Jeffrey A. Carver was a Nebula Award finalist for his novel Eternity's End. He also authored Battlestar Galactica, a novelization of the critically acclaimed television miniseries. His novels combine thought-provoking characters with engaging storytelling, and range from the adventures of the Star Rigger universe (Star Rigger's Way, Dragons in the Stars, and others) to the ongoing, character-driven hard SF of The Chaos Chronicles-which begins with Neptune Crossing and continues with Strange Attractors, The Infinite Sea, Sunborn, and now The Reefs of Time and its conclusion, Crucible of Time. He is a recipient of the Frank Herbert Lifetime Achievement Award for science fiction writing.A native of Huron, Ohio, Carver lives with his family in the Boston area. He has taught writing in a variety of settings, from educational television t

Stars are dying.John Bandicut and his companions are summoned to a star-cloud called Starmaker, known to humans as the Orion Nebula, to discover what force threatens newborn stars-and possibly every world within a thousand light-years. Their journey takes them not just into the perils of a stellar nursery, but into confrontation with the Mindaru, a billion-year-old AI and adversary of life as they know it. The task is daunting. But with the aid of Deep and Dark, sentient clouds who are perhaps the strangest beings they have met yet in their exceedingly strange journey, there may be hope.Back on Triton, Julie Stone-briefly Bandicut's lover before he was transported away to a new life at the edge of the galaxy-encounters the enigmatic translator, the alien entity that first drew Bandicut into his extraordinary adventures. Julie must face her own life-or-death decision in defense of the Earth-while for Bandicut and company, whatever chance they have of stopping the terrifying Mindaru will be found only in the fiery heart of an intelligent sun.Sunborn continues the harrowing journey through the tumultuous worlds of The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End.REVIEWS:"Leaps quite madly from pot to kettle to frying pan to fire. The pace never lets up...[a] remarkably expansive vision." -Analog"Carver gives us the ultimate cosmic aliens while juggling stars and supernovas. Dazzling." -Jack McDevitt, author of Seeker and Chindi"Carver's latest addition to The Chaos Chronicles... ensures his place among the most inventive of contemporary authors of hard sf and speculative theory. Filled with startling ideas and ingenious plot twists, this sf adventure (along with its series predecessors) belongs in most sf collections. -Library Journal"Carver does his usual outstanding job of juggling multiple viewpoints and plot threads while casting his protagonists' adventures against a sweeping, intergalactic backdrop. Yet Bandicut's story is ultimately a very human one about determination, seat-of-the-pants ingenuity, and courage in the face of overwhelming danger." -Booklist Jeffrey A. Carver was a Nebula Award finalist for his novel Eternity's End. He also authored Battlestar Galactica, a novelization of the critically acclaimed television miniseries. His novels combine thought-provoking characters with engaging storytelling, and range from the adventures of the Star Rigger universe (Star Rigger's Way, Dragons in the Stars, and others) to the ongoing, character-driven hard SF of The Chaos Chronicles-which begins with Neptune Crossing and continues with Strange Attractors, The Infinite Sea, Sunborn, and now The Reefs of Time and its conclusion, Crucible of Time. He is a recipient of the Frank Herbert Lifetime Achievement Award for science fiction writing.A native of Huron, Ohio, Carver lives with his family in the Boston area. He has taught writing in a variety of settings, from educational television to conferences for young writers to MIT, as well as his own workshops. He has created a free web site for aspiring authors of all ages at http://www.writesf.com.For a complete guide to Jeffrey A. Carver's ebooks, visit:https://www.starrigger.net A hard science fiction series inspired by the science of chaos. Follow the beleaguered John Bandicut as his life is transformed by the alien quarx on Neptune's largest moon. Saving the Earth is only the beginning. His adventures will take him to the edge of the galaxy and into companionship with an unlikely assortment of alien beings, all of them torn from their homeworlds by the enigmatic Masters of Shipworld. But they have been brought to Shipworld for a purpose, and that purpose could cost them their lives.

The starstream is beautiful. But beauty turns deadly when an ancient AI bent on destruction uses it to travel uptime, to humanity's future.The Mindaru are dead. Or so exiled-Earthman John Bandicut and his alien companions believe, after their intervention to save the Orion Nebula and surrounding worlds. But now a part of this ancient and malicious AI colony is swarming toward the present from its birthplace deep in the past. Their opening: a temporal disturbance in the starstream, a hyperspatial thoroughfare used by myriad civilizations. The disturbance emanates from the planetary defenses of nearby Karellia, whose people know nothing of the starstream or the galaxy-threatening Mindaru.Only Bandicut and his friends have the knowledge and experience to act. But when several of the company go missing, he and Li-Jared must team with the pandimensional Ruall and her gokat-the oddest aliens Bandicut has met since the shadow-people-and journey to Karellia to find a way to cut off the timestream.Meanwhile, on Shipworld, the "missing" Ik meets another human of Earth-a former lover of Bandicut's-and embarks with her on a perilous mission far back into deep time, seeking a way to stop the Mindaru at their source.The Chaos Chronicles returns at last in The Reefs of Time, part one of a heartstopping, two-part adventure. Concluded in Crucible of Time-available now from Nebula-nominated Jeffrey A. Carver!PRAISE FOR THE REEFS OF TIME / CRUCIBLE OF TIME:"Classic science fiction with engaging characters and richly imagined worlds!" -Greg Bear; author of The Unfinished Land and The War Dogs Trilogy"Jeffrey A. Carver's remarkable long-awaited duology The Reefs of Time / Crucible of Time is a welcome addition to The Chaos Chronicles, certifying his continuing mastery of action and adventure at the boundaries of space opera and hard SF." -Steve Miller, co-author of The Liaden Universe"Rich, dignified prose wedded to excellent and imaginative storytelling on the grandest scale. If you've grown weary of the hasty, hyperkinetic stories and styles that typify so many other independently-published novels, come home to Jeffrey Carver's timeless and triumphant The Reefs of Time." -Charles E. Gannon, author of the Caine Riordan world"Mind-blowing in its complexity... I settled in to enjoy a wild ride." -Ann Tonsor Zeddies, author of Riders of Leviathan and Steel HelixPRAISE FOR THE CHAOS CHRONICLES:"Remarkably expansive vision." -Analog"Masterfully captures the joy of exploration." - Publishers Weekly"Master craftsman of compelling hard science fiction." - BooklistOne of the best SF novels of the year - Science Fiction Chronicle"A dazzling, thrilling, innovative space opera." -Kirkus Jeffrey A. Carver was a Nebula Award finalist for his novel Eternity's End. He also authored Battlestar Galactica, a novelization of the critically acclaimed television miniseries. His novels combine thought-provoking characters with engaging storytelling, and range from the adventures of the Star Rigger universe (Star Rigger's Way, Dragons in the Stars, and others) to the ongoing, character-driven hard SF of The Chaos Chronicles-which begins with Neptune Crossing and continues with Strange Attractors, The Infinite Sea, Sunborn, and now The Reefs of Time and its conclusion, Crucible of Time. He is a recipient of the Frank Herbert Lifetime Achievement Award for science fiction writing.A native of Huron, Ohio, Carver lives with his family in the Boston area. He has taught writing in a variety of settings, from educational television to conferences for young writers to MIT, as well as his own workshops. He has created a free web site for aspiring authors of all ages at http://www.writesf.com.For a complete guide to Jeffrey A. Carver's ebooks, visit:https://www.starrigger.net A hard science fiction series inspired by the science of chaos. Follow the beleaguered John Bandicut as his life is transformed by the alien quarx on Neptune's largest moon. Sav