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NOVELS OF THE STARSTREAM
by JEFFREY A. CARVER
FROM A CHANGELING STAR
Into a dying star...
Into a dying star...
On Kantano's World, astronomer Willard Ruskin must discover why someone has infected him with nano-agents--artificially intelligent, microscopic computers, which alter his appearance, his memory, his very DNA. Drawn into a conflict from which not even death will free him, Ruskin must find a way to reach Betelgeuse before his enemies sabotage Starmuse...and humankind's future among the stars.
A harrowing journey from inside the human cell--to the mind of a dying star.
Quotes and Reviews:
"Starts with a bang and keeps getting better. Carver handles not one, but two hot topics, and presents both vividly." --David Brin
"Running from the micro to the macro and back again, redefining sentience, space-time, and perhaps humanity along the way, FROM A CHANGELING STAR is a fast-paced puzzler, rush in invention, and Jeffrey A. Carver's most ambitious book to date." --Roger Zelazny
"Carver does an excellent job of tickling your sense of wonder, and in the end he leaves you both satisfied and craving another serving of his considerable talent." --ANALOG
"Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good." --Craig Shaw Gardner
"This is the rare science fiction novel that has everything: a mysterious and exciting story that grabs you from the first page, characters (both alien and human) who will come to matter a great deal to you, and some fascinating scientific concepts (from nanotechnology to hyperstrings). Most of all, it has what only the best science fiction can offer: an almost mystical sense of the wonder and strangeness of this universe and the creatures who inhabit it. If you're not crying at the end, you're a robot. It is Carver's best book." --Richard Bowker, author of REPLICA and DOVER BEACH
"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." --Spider Robinson
Into the heart of the galaxy...
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 the starstream. Entire worlds have died, destroyed by the Throgs.
But life goes on, and colonists continue to settle new worlds. Colony-bound aboard the starship Charity are one Claudi Melnik, a child of uncommon talents—and an AI named Jeaves, who has his own interest in an encounter with Throgs. When the unthinkable occurs, Claudi must face alone the challenge from beyond space and time. And no one, not even Jeaves, could have predicted the final confrontation, or imagined where unexpected friendship would be found.
Down the Stream of Stars, triumphant sequel to the bestselling From a Changeling Star, is a daring journey across the gulf between human and alien, to the heart of consciousness itself.
Cover art by Shusei.
Quotes and reviews:
"It was no surprise that...Jeffrey Carver's DOWN THE STREAM OF STARS would have heavy emphasis on science as well as good writing." (Don D'Ammassa--naming the book to SF CHRONICLE's "Best Novels of 1990" list.)
"I enjoyed it immensely. Carver provides another wild ride through a deranged cosmos. His imagination is matched only by his compassion. Marvelous effort!" --Jack McDevitt, author of INFINITY BEACH and THE ENGINES OF GOD
"Carver's ingenuity is everywhere apparent." --LOCUS
Click here to see Books by Universe -- a grouping of all my novels
according to the chronologies of the various future histories.