Jeffrey Carver's First Star Rigger Novel, and the Farthest

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 and thus sixth in the internal time sequence in the series, 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 rediscovery of the mode of star travel that once knit galactic civilization together.

E-Reads has published a number of Star Rigger titles as well as his Dragon novels. Each book is a complete and satisfying novel in its own right, so you can take them up in any sequence. But here's how the author has ordered them in time:

Panglor (Star Rigger 1)
Dragons in the Stars (Star Rigger 2)
Dragon Rigger (Star Rigger 3)
Star Rigger's Way (Star Rigger 4)
Eternity's End (Star Rigger 5 - free ebook from Starrigger.net)
Seas of Ernathe (Star Rigger 6)

And, to set them all in the context of Carver's grand vision, you'll want to read his e-essay, "Of Consoles and Dragons' Claws".

Subsequent to the Star Rigger and Dragons books Carver launched The Chaos Chronicles for Tor. The latest in the other series is Sunborn, and the author has transformed into the auteur of a beautiful, lilting, mysterious video to promote it. Not only did he take a hand in every aspect of the production but that's his voice narrating it as well. How are we going to keep him at his desk when Hollywood beckons? View the video and you'll see what we mean.



Here's what Publishers Weekly had to say about Sunborn:

The long-anticipated fourth entry in Carver's Chaos Chronicles (after 1996's The Infinite Sea) is space opera at its most agreeably and classically science fictional. Someone or something is plotting murder on an interstellar scale, and a small company of exiles led by human John Bandicut may be the galaxy's only chance of salvation. The prospective victims are sentient stars living in the Orion Nebula; half the challenge is simply opening communications. Luckily, Bandicut's allies and sponsors include robots, noncorporeal symbiotes and the incredibly ancient multidimensional entity Deeaab. With such a large cast and a parallel plot involving a threat to Earth itself, character development is necessarily sketched broadly. Some may find the narrative overly stage-managed, but Carver skillfully rotates viewpoints and weaves the choreography directly into the plot. This installment is a cut above the earlier books and will be entirely accessible to any reader who appreciates high-powered stellar and n-dimensional physics blended with old-school space-faring.

Chaos? Bring It On, Says Jeffrey Carver

Few people love chaos, and even fewer welcome it. Jeffrey A. Carver positively embraces it. His Tor saga, The Chaos Chronicles, is inspired by and built around it. 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."

Carver blazed into the science fiction universe with a series of "star rigger" adventures that blended hard-SF concepts and deeply humanistic concerns, and E-Reads is proud to bring many of his classic novels back both to audiences who long to reread them and to a new generation that has not yet had the intense pleasure. He has polished them up for downloaders as well as those who love traditional paperback format. Among the nine gems currently on sale are Infinity Link, Down the Stream of Stars, Seas of Ernathe, Star Rigger's Way, Panglor and The Rapture Effect.

As always, our paperback releases lag behind e-books, so visit his page from time to time to check on the status, or watch these pages for updates.

Travel with Jeffrey Carver from the mysteries of deepest space to the recesses of the human mind and see chaos become coherent. And for a full immersion, do spend some time on his handsome website.

RC

Bangs Just Don't Come Any Bigger

Do stars have minds, and is it possible to penetrate them? In Jeffrey Carver's From a Changeling Star, a Locus bestseller, and its glorious sequel, Down the Stream of Stars, named one of the best science fiction novels of the year by Science Fiction Chronicle, we discover the astonishing answers as Project Starmuse brings scientists together to observe the imminent supernova cataclysm of the giant star Betelgeuese. Read why Spider Robinson declared From a Changeling Star, "As audacious and imaginative as the best of John Varley, with characters as memorable as those of Sturgeon or Zelazny, and with one of the most powerful endings in science fiction."

- Richard Curtis