Jeffrey A Carver Books in Order

Long after the art of starship rigging has been lost, the ocean world Ernathe may hold the key to bringing it back. Young pilot Seth Perland must understand the mysterious Nale'nid before fear and violence close that door.

After disaster leaves him stranded in the Flux, young star rigger Gev Carlyle has only a troubled alien companion and a slim chance of survival. To escape the deadly currents ahead, they may have to join minds completely.

Disgraced space pilot Panglor Balef is blackmailed into a mission that looks a lot like suicide. With a stubborn stowaway at his side, he has to outlast enemies, bad luck, and the strange reaches of space ahead.

Young Earthman Mike Murray reaches Clypsis, a whole solar system built around faster-than-light racing. To climb from pit work toward the cockpit, he must survive dangerous rivals, unfamiliar rules, and the scale of his own ambition.

Willard Ruskin is fighting missing memories and unseen manipulators while scientists near Betelgeuse wait for him to save a vast engineering project. To protect humanity's future, he has to reach a dying star before his enemies do.

An AI that helped start a hidden interstellar war now wants it stopped, but it cannot do the job alone. Humans and alien Ell must build trust fast enough to keep a wider catastrophe from breaking loose.

Colonists pour down the starstream toward the galactic center, chasing new worlds and a fresh start. When deadly forces strike their ship, young Claudi Melnik and the enigmatic AI Jeaves are left facing dangers no one fully understands.

When star pilot Jael LeBrae rebels against a cruel shipmaster and flies a forbidden route through the Flux, dragons turn out to be very real. Her unlikely bond with one of them pulls her into an older and more dangerous struggle.

Jael is drawn back into the dragon realm, where war is twisting space-time and prophecy names her as the outsider who can challenge the darkness. Saving the dragons may demand the highest price from her.

On Triton, John Bandicut becomes host to an alien intelligence in humanity's first true contact with another species. To stop a catastrophe that could destroy Earth, he must break every rule and leave his old life behind.

Stranded at the edge of the galaxy, John Bandicut finds himself aboard Shipworld, a vast structure crowded with beings from countless civilizations. New friendships form quickly, but so does a threat that could destroy the place itself.

Bandicut and his companions are flung onto an ocean world and drawn into the failing undersea city of the Neri. Strange allies, abyssal dangers, and something terrifying in the deep make this a survival story on an alien scale.

Mozelle Moi is swept into a secret first-contact project and a telepathic bond with alien travelers. What begins as fear and wonder soon ties her fate to a larger question about humanity's future among the stars.

The ghost ship Impris, lost long ago, may be more than legend. As pirates, riggers, and buried secrets close in, one escaped pilot must survive the Flux and unravel a mystery tangled in space-time itself.

This official novelization retells the 2003 miniseries that launched the reimagined saga. After the Cylons nearly exterminate humanity, Adama, Roslin, and a ragged fleet of survivors fight to stay alive and begin the search for Earth.

John Bandicut and his companions are summoned to the Orion Nebula to learn why newborn stars are dying. Their search leads into a stellar nursery, an ancient AI enemy, and the blazing heart of an intelligent sun.

This omnibus gathers Dragons in the Stars and Dragon Rigger. Jael LeBrae's brush with real dragons in the Flux pulls her into prophecy, friendship, and a war in a hidden realm where saving others may cost her everything.

In a world threatened by creeping entropy, gifted kids are trained to defend reality itself. It is a playful premise with real stakes, where imagination may be the strongest tool humanity has left.

High school wrestler Hog Donovan represents Earth in an intergalactic amateur tournament and learns his next opponent can change shape. What starts as a match quickly turns into a very strange test of nerve.

After aliens conquer Earth in the name of saving humanity from itself, one last human holdout waits in a ruined space station. The story pits grief and defiance against an enemy that believes it is being merciful.

A young asteroid miner is stranded with a damaged ship and only his enhanced border collie Sam for help. Their fight to survive depends on brains, loyalty, and just enough room for one smart dog to matter.

Six stories take on first contact, alien invasion, strange love, wrestling, and dragons in the stars. The collection shows Carver working short, with wide-eyed ideas and human stakes packed into quick, memorable forms.

A couple adopts Rogo, a lovable doglike creature from Betelgeuse, and their life warms in unexpected ways. Then they begin to suspect that their affectionate new pet may have arrived on Earth with a purpose of his own.

A man who works in a sea-floor power station struggles to readjust to life on land. Carver turns that uneasy transition into a quiet, intimate science-fiction story about displacement and change.

This collection gathers five science-fiction stories that range from entropy disaster to deep-sea crisis, space tourism, and asteroid mining. It is a good sampler of Carver's shorter work and his love of big scientific ideas.

On a forbidden route through the Flux, where dragons are supposed to be only rumor, a young starpilot meets the impossible. This short story later became the spark for Dragons in the Stars and Dragon Rigger.

The struggle begun in The Reefs of Time spills onto a world near war, where Bandicut and Li-Jared must make peace before the Mindaru can destroy everything. At the same time, allies in deep history try to stop the AI before its future hardens into disaster.

John Bandicut thinks the Mindaru are finished, until a time disturbance in the starstream brings the ancient AI threat rushing forward from the deep past. He and his allies race toward Karellia while others travel backward in time to cut the danger off at its source.