The Infinity Link [Unknown Binding]

Jeffery A. Carver (Author), David ( Jacket ) Mattingly (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: Bluejay; Book Club (BCE/BOMC) edition (1984)
• ASIN: B001UPQ5YY
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,290,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kindle readers: Would you like a glimpse behind the scenes of my writing of The Chaos Chronicles? The ebook versions of Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors, and The Infinite Sea now include all-new Afterwords--my reflections on the evolution of the series and my experience in writing each book. I've kept the prices low on these editions to encourage you to give them a try if you're new to my work. I hope you enjoy them!

Here's a little about me:

A Midwesterner by birth and upbringing (I grew up in Huron, Ohio), I've lived in New England ever since attending college at Brown University, in Rhode Island. Now I live outside Boston with my wife and daughters, and also with a boxer named Hermione and a cat named Moonlight.

I've loved science fiction since I first began to read, and from the time I began writing, I always knew my first love was going to be SF. I'm not sure where you'd place me as a writer: I love astronomy and cosmology and hard SF concepts, and yet the characters are the most important thing to me in any story, whether it's a story I'm reading or a story I'm writing. It's the people, and the sense of wonder, that have always made science fiction--and science!--so awe-inspiring to me. Basically, I have always tried to write stories that I would want to read myself.

Some years ago, I developed and hosted on the air an educational TV series fo r middle-school classrooms, called Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy--teaching kids the basics of how to turn ideas into stories. That later turned into a computer-based course called, oddly enough, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. In 2005, I decided it was about time to put the information online as a public service, available for free to any aspiring writer. It's online now, and you can use it anytime you like, just by going to http://www.writesf.com.

I also invite you to stop by and read my regular blog, at http://starrigger.blogspot.com, or my web site at http://www.starrigger.net.

Thanks for visiting! And please take a look at the video trailer for my novel Sunborn. If you'd like to view it in full-screen for full effect, you can do that at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K03RMcSeiY4.

--Jeffrey A. Carver

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat entertaining, March 31, 2003

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IHiJump "ihijump" (Arkansas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Infinity Link (Hardcover)

Characters were decently developed and Carver developed a good basic theme for his book. However, he wasted page after page with a totally unnecessary side-story that had a reporter chasing after the story that was the plot of the book.

Had it not been for this side story I would likely have given this book four stars. It was as if (and quite likely that) Carver wrote the book and then added the side story to give it some fat... you know, add a lot of pages so people will think it's a great book and not just a good book.

As it is, the book is still a very good read and, if bored, you may skip over most of the side story without missing anything of the central plot. I'll read more of Carver.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Computer People, April 10, 2008

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David Brockert "constant reader" (Madison, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infinity Link (Paperback)

"The Infinity Link" by Jeffrey A. Carver, ©1984

This is such an unusual story. You are given the basic outlines of a girl who has lost her beauty to some accident, trying to make a go of it in college and this job come along. The job is wonderful: she gets to play with another person, male, who sees her in the compute simulation as she would see herself if she was not injured. The job is to end soon, but no one tells her. She is doing good and it comes to light with another peon and her out after work. She is devastated. She had thought there was a future and not an end. Now what?
Now come the aliens. They are coming into see us and sample our life forms. They find three intelligent animals on Earth. Whales? Dolphins? One of the great apes? It is a pretty good story, but I forget the ending, so maybe it was not so good.