Jeffrey A. Carver
Bio: Jeffery A. Carver is the author of fourteen popular and highly regarded science fiction novels, including Eternity's End. His books combine hard-SF concepts, deeply humanistic concerns, and a sense of humor, making them both compellingly thought-provoking and emotionally satisfying. Other novels by Carver include From a Changeling Star, The Infinity Link, The Rapture Effect, and various novels of the Star Rigger universe, including Star Rigger's Way and Dragons in the Stars. Carver is currently at work continuing the saga of The Chaos Chronicles, a grand scope hard-SF series inspired by the science of chaos. Science Fiction Chronicle named the first volume, Neptune Crossing, one of the best science fiction novels of the year, while Kirkus Reviews called Strange Attractors (Volume 2) "dazzling, thrilling, innovative." He is presently at work on Sunborn, the fourth volume of the series. Carver has taught science fiction writing both through educational television and as the author of Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, a CD-ROM and web-based course that teaches the fundamentals of storytelling and writing. A native of Huron, Ohio, Carver graduated from Brown University with a degree in English. He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a private pilot, a freelance instructional and web designer, and a stay-at-home dad. He lives with his family in the Boston area, where he is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and The Authors Guild.
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The Rapture Effect [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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In a galaxy-spanning novel of adventure and philosophical conflict, set in the year 2165, a fleet of colonizing starships from Earth approaches the planet Argus, 138 light-years from Earth. During their years-long voyage, Earth has developed a stargate and ended up in an interstellar war, waged by robot fighters far from Earth and commanded by the central artificial intelligence of the gnostic system owned by the McConwell Company. When the AI realizes the futility of the war it's engaged in, it... more info>> 1987
Words: 117161 - Reading Time: 334-468 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Panglor [Star Rigger Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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In this prequel to Jeffrey A. Carver's Star Rigger Universe, we find Panglor Balef, space pilot, on the edge of sanity. Forced to embark upon a hopeless mission, the life-weary pilot suddenly finds himself in the depths of space--in a place that seems beyond reality. Is this the horrifying end of his journey? Or could it be a window to a new and incredible path of discovery? Panglor must fight for his life to find answers? 2004
Words: 77009 - Reading Time: 220-308 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Dragons in the Stars [Star Rigger Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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Jael LeBrae, a young female star rigger, rebels against an abusive ship's master and dares to take "the mountain route" through a region of hyperspace where legend has it that dragons dwell. But no one believes that real dragons lurk in the mountains, ready to duel unwary riggers ... until dragons actually appear in the night sky of the Flux, challenging Jael to a fight to the death. Help appears when a dragon named Highwing befriends the lonely rigger--but only afterward does Jael realize that ... more info>> 1992
Words: 99756 - Reading Time: 285-399 min.
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Dragon Rigger [Star Rigger Series Book 3] [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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Legends of a subjective reality in the hyperspace Flux, where dragons combat stray riggers, have existed since the rigger pilots began their navigations. But Jael LeBrae discovered legend is real enough in the Flux, when she met Highwing, a dragon in mortal battle with the evil creature Tar-skel, known as the Nail of Strength. Now Jael finds herself thrust back into the battle again, but this time with a much reduced band of dragons. Tar-skel is expanding his dominion beyond the dragon universe ... more info>> 1993
Words: 148130 - Reading Time: 423-592 min.
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The Infinity Link [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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In the year 2034, a young woman named Mozelle Moi learns that her work as a test subject in a top-secret tachyon transmission project will soon be terminated. The purpose of the project has never been revealed to her; she only knows she is in love with David Kadin, a man she has met only through the tachyon cyberlink. Desperate not to lose her chance at love, she conspires with a programmer friend to join her with Kadin through the tachyon transmitter. She succeeds--but the truth that awaits her... more info>> 1984
Words: 176891 - Reading Time: 505-707 min.
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Seas of Ernathe [Star Rigger Book 6] [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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Millennia after the skills of starship rigging have been lost, can Seth Perland find the key to rediscovery on the world of the mysterious sea people, the Nale'nid? Seas of Ernathe was Jeffrey A. Carver's first novel, and the first full-length tale of what was to become his popular Star Rigger Universe. Set farthest into the future of all the Star Rigger stories, Seas of Ernathe sets the stage for a new cycle of history. A touching story of love and personal discovery, it leads the way to the re... more info>> 1976
Words: 55359 - Reading Time: 158-221 min.
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From a Changeling Star [Changeling Star Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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Across the galaxy, tensions are rising between the authoritarian Tandesko Triune and the free-marketeers of the Auricle Alliance. Nevertheless, scientists of both sides have come together in Project Starmuse, to observe the giant star Betelgeuse as it goes supernova. At the space station embedded inside the roiling star, the team anxiously awaits the return of the one man essential to the success of the project. On Kantano's World, astronomer Willard Ruskin must discover why someone has infected... more info>> 1988
Words: 105314 - Reading Time: 300-421 min.
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Down the Stream of Stars [Changeling Star Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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A great interstellar migration has begun, down the gateway known as the starstream. Remnant of the Betelgeuse supernova, the starstream is a grand, ethereal highway deep into the Milky Way. It is also a living entity: born of the merged souls of the once-living star and the other beings who died in its creation. Who could have predicted the wonders of the starstream, or the perils it unleashed? Among the perils is a terrifying race known as the Throgs--shadowy beings that live in the n-space of ... more info>> 1990
Words: 104593 - Reading Time: 298-418 min.
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Star Rigger's Way [Star Rigger Series Book 4] [MultiFormat]
by Jeffrey A. Carver
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Gev Carlyle does not trust his companion. The other members of his crew are dead and he is left with only a suspicious alien for company. Together they must find a way to navigate through the Flux, an interstellar travel medium that depends on the convergence of the mental and physical worlds. Is he willing to sacrifice his individual mind and become one with this cat-like creature in order to survive? 2004
Words: 62419 - Reading Time: 178-249 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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