Jeffrey A. Carver

Jeffrey Allan Carver (born August 25, 1949 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American science fiction author. Today he lives in the Boston area .

According to him, his preferred subjects are space travel, contact with aliens , artificial intelligence , "transcendent realities" and the moral, ethical and spiritual implications of these possibilities.

His best-known works include the Chaos Chronicles , which deal, among other things, with an alien species - the Quarx - that has been protecting the most diverse worlds from catastrophes for eons by ingeniously applying the principles of the chaos theory.

bibliography

Star rigger

• 1 Panglor (1980)
  • German: Panglor. Translated by Ingrid Herrmann-Nytko. In: Jeffrey A. Carver: In Hyperspace. 2005.
• 2 Dragons in the Stars (1992)
  • English: kite between the stars. Translated by Ingrid Herrmann-Nytko. In: Jeffrey A. Carver: In Hyperspace. 2005.
• 3 Dragon Riggers (1993)
• 4 Star Rigger's Way (1978)
• 5 Eternity's End (2000)
  • German: At the end of eternity. Translated by Ingrid Herrmann-Nytko. Heyne SF&F # 8310, 2003, ISBN 3-453-86364-X .
• 6 Seas of Ernathe (1976)
• Panglor / Dragons in the Stars (collective edition of 1 and 2; 1996)
  • German: In hyperspace. Translated by Ingrid Herrmann-Nytko. Heyne SF&F # 8323, 2005, ISBN 3-453-52008-4 (collective edition of 1 and 2).
• Dragon Space (Collective Edition of 2 and 3; 2011)

Starstream (novels)

• From a Changeling Star (1988)
• Down the Stream of Stars (1990)

Chaos Chronicles (novels)

• 1 Neptune Crossing (1994)
  • English: Neptune can wait. Translated by Ruggero Leò. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 23259, 2003, ISBN 3-404-23259-3 .
• 2 Strange Attractors (1995)
  • German: Das Weltenschiff. Translated by Ruggero Leò. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 23265, 2003, ISBN 3-404-23265-8 .
• 3 The Infinite Sea (1996)
  • German: The shining city. Translated by Beke Ritgen and Ruggero Leò. Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction # 23271, 2004, ISBN 3-404-23271-2 .
• 4 Sunborn (2008)
• 5 The Reefs of Time (2019)
• 6 Crucible of Time (2019)
• The Chaos Chronicles (collective edition from 1–3; 2010, collective edition)

Novels

• The Infinity Link (1984)
  • German: Tachyon. Translated by Kurt Bracharz. Heyne SF&F # 4658, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03925-4 .
• Clypsis (Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway # 1, 1987)
• The Rapture Effect (1987)
  • German: The weapon of enthusiasm. Translated by Walter Brumm. Heyne SF&F # 4769, 1991, ISBN 3-453-04482-7 .
• Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries (2005)
  • English: Battlestar Galactica: The official background to the TV series. Translated by Claudia Kern. Panini, 2006, ISBN 3-833-21444-9 .

Collections

• Reality and Other Fictions (2012)
• Going Alien (2012)
• Reality (2012)

Short stories

1974:

• Of No Return (1974)

1975:

• Alien Persuasion (in: Galaxy, September 1975 )

1977:

• Love Rogo (1977, in: Roger Elwood (Ed.): Futurelove: A Science Fiction Triad )
• Seastate Zero (1977)
  • German: Aquanauten. Translated by Johannes Jaspert. In: Manfred Kluge (Ed.): A crazy show. Heyne SF&F # 3811, 1981, ISBN 3-453-30713-5 .

1978:

• What Gods Are These? (in: Galileo, July 1978 )

1981:

• Though All the Mountains Lie Between (1981, in: Orson Scott Card (Ed.): Dragons of Darkness )

1984:

• Life-Tides (1984, in: Susan Shwartz (Ed.): Habitats )

1995:

• Reality School: In the Entropy Zone (in: Science Fiction Age, March 1995 )
• Shapeshifter Finals (1995, in: Roger Zelazny and Martin H. Greenberg (Eds.): Warriors of Blood and Dream )

2009:

• Dog Star (2009, in: Mike Brotherton (Ed.): Diamonds in the Sky: An Original Anthology of Astronomy Science Fiction )

2011:

• Reality School (2011)

2012:

• Rocket Ride! (2012, in: Jeffrey A. Carver: Reality and Other Fictions )

literature

• John Clute : Carver, Jeffrey A .. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition).
• Detlef Hedderich: Tachyon , in: The Science Fiction Year 1991 (Vol. 5), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1990, pp. 661–664. ISBN 3-453-04471-1

Web links

• Jeffrey A. Carver in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Jeffrey A. Carver Fantastic Fiction Bibliography
• Jeffrey A. Carver in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• Literature by and about Jeffrey A. Carver in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jeffrey A. Carver in the bibliography of German science fiction ( books , stories )
• Literature by and about Jeffrey A. Carver in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Works by and about Jeffrey A. Carver at Open Library
• Jeffrey A. Carver , Texts on Free Speculative Fiction Online
• The Star Rigger's Net: Science Fiction Worlds of Jeffrey A. Carver - Carver's own website (English)