The Rapture Effect [Import] [Paperback]

Jeffrey Carver (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Futura; 1 edition (1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708882617
• ISBN-13: 978-0708882610
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dance, Dance, Evolution!, March 18, 2008

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Michael Valdivielso (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rapture Effect (Mass Market Paperback)

The Gnostic Computer System belonged to the Company and but did they have control over it? The GCS needed help. It was just not able to handle the problem it had been handed. The biggest problem anybody had been handed. A war with an alien race. A war which it could not win within the limits it had been given. But the danger was that it might also fail to win the war. EVER. Now it needed human help to make changes within its programming, changes that the Company did not want, changes that even it might not understand. And there was the danger that by changing it, it would change the balance, maybe even against itself.
The story is about first contact, about aliens, about computer intelligence, music, the nature of man, and about war. While some parts seem to be simplistic, there are bursts of genius and plot twists that surprise you. Even the characters, many of which I did not like, were realistic. Face it, if you don't like a character and think he is a jerk, then you are reacting to a REALISTIC character. I am loaning this book to a friend right after the review because he is a sci-fi fan and this is a great book. Get it, new or used.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars was not fond of the dancing, April 22, 2010

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D. Stoner (Gainesville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rapture Effect (Paperback)

Parts of the book took me back to my early years and junior high school dances... not what I want to read about in a SciFi book. Other than that I enjoyed the story.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I've ever read!, April 25, 2000

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Travis Pribusauskas (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Rapture Effect (Mass Market Paperback)

The Rapture Effect is a great story of first contact. There are a lot of subplots thrown in that add to the story instead of detracting. I won't say any more so I don't spoil the story, but if you like stories about first contact, or about secretive government plots, then you will like this book