Also by Jeffrey A. Carver:
- Going Alien
- Reality and Other Fictions
- Dog Star
- Though All the Mountains Lie Between
- Of No Return
- Love Rogo
- Sunborn
- Dragon Space: A Star Rigger Omnibus
- What Gods Are These?
- Reality School: In the Entropy Zone
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Published: Dec. 16, 2010
Words: 317,537 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458001306
Short description
An omnibus of three novels: Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors, and The Infinite Sea. When John Bandicut encounters alien sentience on Triton, his life changes forever—from sacrificing everything to save Earth, to confronting a malicious entity at the edge of the galaxy, to fathoming the abyss of an alien ocean. A major hard-SF adventure from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End.Extended description
An omnibus of three novels: Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors, and The Infinite Sea. When John Bandicut encounters alien sentience on Triton, his life changes forever—from sacrificing everything to save Earth, to confronting a malicious entity at the edge of the galaxy, to fathoming the abyss of an alien ocean. A major hard-SF adventure from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End.Complete with new Afterwords on the writing of each novel—exclusive to the ebook editions!
Individual novels originally appeared in print from Tor Books.
Tags
adventure, space opera, science fiction, future fiction, psychological thriller, sci fi, alien artifact, first contact, sci fi adventure, interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy, neptune, chaos theory, science fantasy, sci fi romance, alien beings, sci fi thriller, science fiction drama, hard sf, sci fi action, alien intelligence, psychological science fiction, backlist ebooksAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Richard Rose
on July 11, 2012 :
I find that I have to agree witj previous reviews.
Neptune Crossing held my attentioneven when little was happening and I am basically a 'hard' science fiction reader.
The later 2 books are described by the author as basically being allowed to write themselves and 'on the evidence' I think that this is not a good way to write. I found them tedious and not very connected internally. There were , I suppose, too many Deii ex machina for my taste. However there are hints that the 4th book will tie everything together so I'll probably buy that too.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)
Review by:
Geoff Cannon
on Dec. 06, 2011 :
Like Nikolaus, I enjoyed the first book, with its excellent plot and characterisation. However, I found the second and third books rather slow and tedious. It seemed that much of the material was not essential to the plot and merely served to extend the length of the book.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)
Review by:
bernie last
on Feb. 02, 2011 :
(no rating)
So far I'm having a tough time reading this book.It's very slow going and I've read five other books after starting this one- because I'm losing interest in it.If the other two are not as good as the first ,as the other reviewer said ,then I may never finish them.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)
Review by:
Nikolaus Rath
on Jan. 22, 2011 :
The first book (Neptune Crossing) is truly amazing, and I'd give it 5 stars. The entire science fiction flair stems from one really unusual alien live form and an extremely powerful and mysterious machine, but this is more than enough to deeply capture the reader.
The other two books, unfortunately, are a big disappointment. They feature tons of aliens and alien machinery, but they all act just like some random guy you'd meet on the street. In contrast to the first book, the aliens don't appear alien at all. In addition to that, the actions of the party that gathers around the protagonist seem totally without reason (unreasonable as in stupid, and not as in alien, that is). Moreover, the main storyline in book two is never truly resolved, at some point the "problem" (whose nature never became clear), is basically just declared as "solved".
The author occasionally switches perspective to some of the other characters, but these episodes are so short that they don't really give any insight into the character but just interrupt the flow of the book.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)