Jeffrey A. Carver

Biography

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.

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 ongoing Ultimate Science Fiction Workshop with Craig Shaw Gardner. He has created a free web site for aspiring authors of all ages at http://www.writesf.com.

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Series

The Chaos Chronicles
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.

Books

Crucible of Time: Part Two of the "Out of Time" Sequence
Series: The Chaos Chronicles. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 131,500. Language: English. Published: September 10, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
Picks up the story from The Reefs of Time. Bandicut and his company must find a way to stop the timestream along which the malicious Mindaru AI are swarming out of the deep past to threaten not just Karellia and Uduon, but all of the galaxy. However, there is more to the Mindaru than meets the eye. Conclusion of the unmissable two-part “Out of Time” sequence, and Book 6 of The Chaos Chronicles!
The Reefs of Time: Part One of the "Out of Time" Sequence
Series: The Chaos Chronicles, Book 5. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 147,090. Language: English. Published: July 23, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi
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 Chaos Chronicles returns at last with its growing cast of characters in The Reefs of Time, part one of a two-part adventure. Concluded in Crucible of Time—available now from Nebula-nominated Jeffrey A. Carver!
Dragon Rigger
Series: Star Rigger Universe. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 153,880. Language: English. Published: August 5, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
A realm at war. The star dragons struggle under the oppression of a terrible power, one that’s intent upon twisting spacetime itself into a web of subjugation and death. According to prophecy One will come from outside to challenge the darkness. Star pilot Jael may be that One. But if the prophecy is true, the price of victory over the darkness will be Jael’s own life.
Dragons in the Stars
Series: Star Rigger Universe. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 105,960. Language: English. Published: June 3, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Dragons in space? A preposterous legend. But when star pilot Jael defies an abusive ship’s master and rigs “the mountain route” through the Flux, the dragons indeed appear—and challenge her to duel. If she escapes, she would be wise never to return. But the currents of the Flux are fickle. When fate steers her this way again, she must defend her former foe against a darkness that seeks his death.
Seas of Ernathe
Series: Star Rigger Universe. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 66,010. Language: English. Published: February 23, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
(5.00 from 1 review)
Starship rigging is a long-lost art. But the ocean world Ernathe may hold the key to its rediscovery, if a young star pilot can learn the ways of the mysterious sea people, the Nale’nid. A touching story of love and personal discovery, Seas of Ernathe takes us on a journey back toward the mode of star travel that once knit the galaxy together. From the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End.
The Infinity Link
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 178,650. Language: English. Published: February 8, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Ancient travelers. Hopeless love. Transcendent encounter. Mozelle Moi’s life becomes a flight of fear and astounding discovery, as she meddles in a government project to make first contact with visitors from the stars. Caught in a telepathic link with the Talenki voyagers, Mozy's personal odyssey will soon be entwined with the fate of all of Humanity. From the author of Eternity’s End.
The Rapture Effect
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 119,330. Language: English. Published: January 9, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech
War between the stars. It was started by an AI, and few humans even knew there was a war at all. But now people are dying, not just robots and aliens—and the AI wants it to stop. But a war is easier to start than to stop, and the computer can't alter its course without outside help. When the Gnostic Control System searches for conspirators, it chooses its friends carefully. Author / Eternity's End
Star Rigger's Way
Series: Star Rigger Universe. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 75,820. Language: English. Published: October 6, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
(3.00 from 1 review)
His shipmates dead, star rigger Gev Carlyle is adrift in the Flux between the stars. His sole hope for survival is an alien castaway named Cephean. Only a compatible rigger team, meshed in psychic unity, can harness the turbulence of the Flux—and Carlyle's ship is sailing inexorably toward the deadly maelstrom of the Hurricane Flume. He needs Cephean's help, but dreads the union more than death!
Panglor
Series: Star Rigger Universe. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 83,770. Language: English. Published: September 15, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Discredited as a space pilot, Panglor Balef is doomed to die in space. Bad enough to be coerced into a mission of murder and suicide, he must also contend with a young woman—stowaway and impossible companion. He could never imagine the journey through space-time they are about to take, from which there is almost certainly no return. Prequel to Jeffrey A. Carver’s famed Star Rigger Universe.
Down the Stream of Stars
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 110,340. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Starstream! In a great diaspora, starships ply the ethereal new highway into the galaxy. But none could have guessed the dangers unleashed by the starstream—including the deadly Throgs. When starship Charity flies into peril, a young Claudi Melnik confronts a threat from beyond space and time. Triumphant sequel to From a Changeling Star and a daring journey to the heart of consciousness itself.
From a Changeling Star
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 111,720. Language: English. Published: July 22, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Deep in the fires of Betelgeuse, scientists anxiously await the one man essential to the greatest engineering project in history. But on Kantano's World, Willard Ruskin battles invisible agents for control of his life, and even his memories. Drawn into a conflict from which not even death will free him, Ruskin must reach Betelgeuse before his enemies sabotage humanity's future among the stars.
Going Alien
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 53,100. Language: English. Published: August 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Encounter the alien, in six science fiction stories from the imagination of Jeffrey A. Carver! Wrestle a shapeshifter in the intragalactic IIMAWL amateur wrestling games. Make love between the stars. Make a last stand against the aliens who've destroyed Earth. Duel an interstellar dragon. These and more, with new introductions by the Nebula-nominated author of The Chaos Chronicles.
Reality and Other Fictions
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 39,280. Language: English. Published: June 30, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
Five science fiction stories to ignite the imagination. Explore an Earth being devoured by entropy. Dive the ocean depths to stop an oil spill. Rocket into space as a tourist. Mine the asteroids with your border collie. These stories span Carver's career, and include his first published short fiction as well as his most recent. With new introductions, from the author of The Chaos Chronicles.
Though All the Mountains Lie Between
Price: Free! Words: 12,850. Language: English. Published: May 21, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
When star pilot Jael rebels against an abusive captain and flies the "mountain route" through the Flux, she dismisses a legend claiming that dragons lurk waiting for unwary riggers. But appear they do, challenging Jael to a fight to the death. This short story is the basis for the novel Dragons in the Stars (available in the omnibus Dragon Space). 9000 words, plus excerpt from Dragon Space.
Of No Return
Price: Free! Words: 9,840. Language: English. Published: May 17, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » General
(4.00 from 1 review)
No man can live and work on the ocean floor without the occasional visit mainside. At least, that's the policy when you work the North Atlantic seabed at the NorthAtStat nuclear power station. But for one man, the surface-side R&R is anything but restful. Can he readjust to life on the surface? Jeffrey A. Carver's first published story appeared originally in 1974. 6000 words.
Sunborn
Series: The Chaos Chronicles, Book 4. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 143,460. Language: English. Published: August 22, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Stars are dying. Bandicut and his friends must learn what threatens the Starmaker Nebula and confront a billion-year-old adversary of life as they know it. Whatever chance they have of stopping the Mindaru may be found only in the fiery heart of an intelligent sun. Vol 4 of The Chaos Chronicles, from the author of Eternity's End.
Dragon Space: A Star Rigger Omnibus
Series: Star Rigger Universe. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 253,090. Language: English. Published: April 28, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
(4.00 from 1 review)
Two Star Rigger novels in one! Between the stars, says legend, there lives a realm of dragons. When a young star rigger named Jael flies the forbidden route, she learns the reality—that the dragons are real, and deadly. Only after a dragon named Highwing befriends her does Jael realize she has been caught up in an ancient battle of good and evil, her appearance foretold by an ancient prophecy.
What Gods Are These?
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,030. Language: English. Published: January 14, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
A lone survivor lurks in a ruined space station, facing certain death or capture. Earth has been saved from herself, her warring human children abducted by the Saviors to a forced promise of peace. Now they're coming for him. Can the human spirit survive in the face of the Saviors' overwhelming force? First appeared in Galileo magazine, from the author of Eternity's End. 7000 words
Reality School: In the Entropy Zone
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 13,040. Language: English. Published: January 8, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
"Reality shapers"-- the children whose job it is to keep the forces of disorder at bay, to "maintain" reality for humanity. It sounds like grand, even godlike work, and some oppose it for just that reason. But with a deadly entropic fold threatening to destroy the world, a handful of children must assume the most perilous job in human history. First appeared in Science Fiction Age. 12,700 words
The Chaos Chronicles (Books 1-3)
Series: The Chaos Chronicles. Price: $8.99 USD. Words: 321,780. Language: English. Published: December 16, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
(3.50 from 4 reviews)
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.
Eternity's End: A Novel of the Star Rigger Universe
Series: Star Rigger Universe. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 208,360. Language: English. Published: December 10, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
(4.50 from 4 reviews)
Star pilot Renwald Legroeder undertakes a search for the legendary ghost ship Impris and her passengers and crew—whose fate is entwined with interstellar piracy, quantum defects in space-time, galactic coverup conspiracies, and deep-cyber romance. Nominated for the Nebula Award—a novel of the Star Rigger Universe, from the author of The Chaos Chronicles.
The Infinite Sea
Series: The Chaos Chronicles, Book 3. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 124,100. Language: English. Published: October 16, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Flung to an alien ocean world, John Bandicut and his companions find themselves plunged into the deepsea realm of the Neri. What will they find in the Neri's failing undersea city, or in the terrifying object of the deep abyss? Book 3 of The Chaos Chronicles continues the hard-SF saga inspired by chaos theory—with an all-new Afterword by the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End.
Strange Attractors
Series: The Chaos Chronicles, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 101,910. Language: English. Published: September 18, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
(5.00 from 1 review)
For John Bandicut, Earth is but a memory. Stranded outside the galaxy in a vast structure peopled by a thousand races, Bandicut finds unexpected friends—only to be caught up in a cascade of irresistible forces. Confronting an entity known as the boojum, Bandicut discovers that the Shipworld itself is in peril, and only he can intervene. Book 2 of The Chaos Chronicles—with an all-new Afterword.
Neptune Crossing
Series: The Chaos Chronicles, Book 1. Price: Free! Words: 102,160. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2010 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Hard sci-fi, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
(5.00 from 3 reviews)
When John Bandicut encounters an alien intelligence on Neptune's moon Triton, his life changes irrevocably. Urged by the alien quarx now sharing his mind, he accepts an audacious mission—to steal a ship and hurtle across the solar system in a desperate bid for Earth's survival. Book 1 of The Chaos Chronicles, by the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End—with a new Afterword by the author.

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