Chaos Chronicles Series by Jeffrey A. Carver

3.88 · 48 ratings
  • Neptune Crossing (Chaos Chronicles #1)
    #1

    Neptune Crossing (Chaos Chronicles #1)

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1994

    When John Bandicut sets out across the surface of Triton, he’s hardly ready for the storm of chaos that’s about to blow through his life. The alien quarx that soon inhabits his mind is humanity’s first contact with an alien life—a contact Bandicut can reveal to no one. The quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent a cometary collision that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help... more

  • Strange Attractors (Chaos Chronicles #2)
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    Strange Attractors (Chaos Chronicles #2)

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1995

    For John Bandicut, Earth is but a memory. Stranded at the edge of the galaxy in a structure populated with beings from a thousand worlds, Bandicut finds unexpected friends—only to be caught up in a cascade of forces that threaten the Shipworld itself. Confronting an entity known as the boojum, Bandicut discovers greater peril than ever in his journey into the unknown. Volume 2 of The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End... more

  • The Infinite Sea (Chaos Chronicles #3)
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    The Infinite Sea (Chaos Chronicles #3)

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1996

    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.

  • The Chaos Chronicles, Books 1-3 (Chaos Chronicles #1-3)
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    The Chaos Chronicles, Books 1-3 (Chaos Chronicles #1-3)

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2010

    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... more

  • Sunborn (Chaos Chronicles #4)
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    Sunborn (Chaos Chronicles #4)

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2008

    Stars are dying: that's the news that greets John Bandicut and his companions. They must travel to a nebula called Starmaker—to discover what force threatens not just the newborn stars, but every world within a thousand light-years. They must journey not just into the perils of a star-forming nebula, but into confrontation with a billion-year-old adversary of life as they know it... more

  • The Reefs of Time (Chaos Chronicles #5)
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    The Reefs of Time (Chaos Chronicles #5)

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2019

    The Mindaru are dead. Or so John Bandicut and company believed, when they returned to Shipworld after saving the Orion Nebula and countless inhabited worlds. But their victory could be short lived. Now this ancient and malicious AI has begun escaping forward in time from billions of years in the past. The cause: a temporal disturbance centered on Li-Jared’s homeworld of Karellia—a disturbance that happens to be crucial to Karellia’s defenses... more

  • Crucible of Time (Chaos Chronicles #6)
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    Crucible of Time (Chaos Chronicles #6)

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2019

    A galaxy in peril . . .The story begun in The Reefs of Time continues. The time-tides caused by Karellia’s defenses have brought the malicious Mindaru AI out of the deep past into the present, threatening Bandicut and Li-Jared, who have arrived at the backwater planet—Li-Jared’s homeworld—to find it on the brink of interplanetary war. Somehow they must forge a peace between Karellia and its neighboring world if the Mindaru threat is to be broken... more

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