Infinity Link [Paperback]

Jeffrey A. Carver (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1996

Kadin, an artificial personality, is sent on board a spacecraft as an ambassador to determine if a visiting race of aliens is friendly or hostile. Reissue. LJ. PW.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A rich novel of immense scope, with the most detailed and brilliant descriptive passages of empathic and telepathic communication. Highly recommended." --SF AND FANTASY REVIEWS

"A long, ambitious work, painted on a canvas as big as the solar system. The concept itself is even larger--the eventual linkup of various intelligent life forms of our galaxy, including humans, whales and several alien races. Carver carefully sets up his story and develops it in a meticulous fashion...it works very well." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"A complex, rich, and satisfying novel." --FANTASY REVIEW

"A compelling vision of our world on the day after tomorrow." --Joan D. Vinge, author of THE SUMMER QUEEN

"A satisfying and rewarding visionary experience." --ANALOG -- Publisher Comments --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Jeffrey A. Carver is the author of more than a dozen character-driven SF novels, ranging from hard SF grounded in chaos theory (THE CHAOS CHRONICLES) to the more fantastic far-future star travel stories of the Star Rigger universe (STAR RIGGER'S WAY, DRAGONS IN THE STARS, DRAGON RIGGER, and others).

His work has been called "dazzling, thrilling, innovative..." by Kirkus Reviews. Booklist said, "Carver's new yarn has all the ingredients for well-deserved popularity: an original creative angle using the budding science of chaos theory; an intriguing alien life-form in the symbiotic quarx, Charlie; and an irresistibly readable story line." Publishers Weekly said, "Carver masterfully captures the joy of exploration."

Carver was for two seasons the developer and on-air host of SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITING, an interactive television production broadcast to middle school classes across the nation.

A native of Huron, Ohio, Carver has lived in New England since graduating from Brown University in 1971 with a degree in English. He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a word-processing consultant, a private pilot, and a stay-at-home dad. He lives with his family in Massachusetts, where he is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and The Authors Guild. His interests include science, religion, nature, underwater exploration, and flying. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812533275
• ISBN-13: 978-0812533279
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,547,397 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.