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Chaos Chronicles #4
Sunborn
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. Whatever chance they have of stopping the terrifying Mindaru may be found only in the fiery heart of an intelligent sun. Meanwhile, back on Triton, Julie Stone experiences her own encounter with the translator, and she too must make a life-or-death decision in defense of the Earth.
Sunborn is Volume 4 of The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End.
Sunborn is Volume 4 of The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End.
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First published November 1, 2008
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February 24, 2013
Very few books manage to convey a true sense of wonder these days. Everybody is so caught up in characters and plot that we sometimes forget to just sit back and look at the sky. Or, more specifically, the stars. This book is a rare beast. It manages to juggle story with backdrop very efficiently. In this book space, or the universe, is as vast as you could want it to be. It is also magical and mythical and marvelous. There are mysteries out there!
This is the fourth book in a series. I haven't read the novels preceding Sunborn, and they are apparently out of print so I'll have to trawl the second hand shops. I would certainly like to read them if they're anything as good as this.
Sunborn is a Space Opera with a difference. The cast of characters include some very fascinating beings, ranging from somewhat conventional aliens and, of course, humans, to other life forms that are everything but conventional. The novel depicts what is, in essence, a rescue mission. Stars in a star nursery (nebula where suns are 'born') are being destroyed by an unknown force (or forces) and our protagonists set out to put an end to it. It's good stuff all round, and reminiscent of the best of the old school. Highly recommended.
This is the fourth book in a series. I haven't read the novels preceding Sunborn, and they are apparently out of print so I'll have to trawl the second hand shops. I would certainly like to read them if they're anything as good as this.
Sunborn is a Space Opera with a difference. The cast of characters include some very fascinating beings, ranging from somewhat conventional aliens and, of course, humans, to other life forms that are everything but conventional. The novel depicts what is, in essence, a rescue mission. Stars in a star nursery (nebula where suns are 'born') are being destroyed by an unknown force (or forces) and our protagonists set out to put an end to it. It's good stuff all round, and reminiscent of the best of the old school. Highly recommended.
June 16, 2023
Another big-concept Space Opera I managed to miss, back in the day. The review that led me to read it was Dirk Grobbelaar's, https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It's on his favorites list. Good overall ratings here too, just under an average of 4 stars.
It's a pretty good book, but I didn't like it as much as he did. The story-line gets confusing -- but it is certainly ambitious! I didn't quite stall out, but I did set it aside for a day. It's certainly worth trying, especially if Dirk's review makes it sound like your sort of book. For me this was a strong 3-star book, good but flawed.
It's on his favorites list. Good overall ratings here too, just under an average of 4 stars.
It's a pretty good book, but I didn't like it as much as he did. The story-line gets confusing -- but it is certainly ambitious! I didn't quite stall out, but I did set it aside for a day. It's certainly worth trying, especially if Dirk's review makes it sound like your sort of book. For me this was a strong 3-star book, good but flawed.
August 16, 2013
In the mid-nineties Jeffrey Carver released the first three books of a planned six book series called "The Chaos Chronicles." As a friend noted at the time, in telling a story that spanned the galaxy, Carver finally had a canvas big enough for his imagination. Then for more than 10 years no more books. Finally the fourth book, "Sunborn" has arrived. It takes a while to get back into the series, and he realizes that, providing some background reminders without interfering with the present story.
The new plot has Earth facing two threats, one in the Solar System and one 1500 light years away. Both involve human characters interacting with an increasingly bizarre array of aliens. The vaguely humanoid aliens and robots are fun characters, but then Carver introduces characters like you've never seen: a hyperdimensional character seen as a cone in our space, thinking clouds from another universe, and most bizarre of all, sentient stars.
It's a great read leading to not one but two climaxes. The story is fully resolved, but the stage is now set for the bigger conflicts to come. Carver combines likable and all-too human characters (including some of the aliens) with hard science and big adventure. If you read the first three books, you'll want this one. If you haven't, time to get started.
The new plot has Earth facing two threats, one in the Solar System and one 1500 light years away. Both involve human characters interacting with an increasingly bizarre array of aliens. The vaguely humanoid aliens and robots are fun characters, but then Carver introduces characters like you've never seen: a hyperdimensional character seen as a cone in our space, thinking clouds from another universe, and most bizarre of all, sentient stars.
It's a great read leading to not one but two climaxes. The story is fully resolved, but the stage is now set for the bigger conflicts to come. Carver combines likable and all-too human characters (including some of the aliens) with hard science and big adventure. If you read the first three books, you'll want this one. If you haven't, time to get started.
December 14, 2013
An amazing book!
Robots! Aliens! Hyper-dimensional beings and menacing AIs! Faster than light spaceships and spacestations that are larger on the inside and can change shape at will...
How about stars? Sentient stars! How about flying into the core of a star to talk to it, to save it from dying? A mysterious alien artifact that wants to save the Earth and a group of aliens with a human with a weird mind thing that want to save the galaxy.
All that is tied in an elegant, gripping plot. And it is a rare occasion when I actually agree with the blurb on the cover: "The pace never lets up"
Robots! Aliens! Hyper-dimensional beings and menacing AIs! Faster than light spaceships and spacestations that are larger on the inside and can change shape at will...
How about stars? Sentient stars! How about flying into the core of a star to talk to it, to save it from dying? A mysterious alien artifact that wants to save the Earth and a group of aliens with a human with a weird mind thing that want to save the galaxy.
All that is tied in an elegant, gripping plot. And it is a rare occasion when I actually agree with the blurb on the cover: "The pace never lets up"
June 10, 2011
If you like hard SF space opera, this book is like chicken soup. A group of 4 people (humanoid aliens) and 2 robots have to solve the mystery of who, how and why is killing stars by exploding them, and stop them, with the help of various interdimentional aliens and n-space force fields. If reading the words "n-space bubble" makes you happy, then this book is for you! I really liked it. It's really classical, straight-forward hard SF (in space!), in the style of Poul Anderson or Stephen Baxter.
June 30, 2025
Sunborn is the fourth book in Carver’s Chaos Chronicles and for me this series gets better with each book. It’s a little hard to categorise these books; there is a lot of technology that is so far advanced as to fall into Clarke’s definition of alien magic but most of the science that is almost understandable falls into leading edge but still not fully understood real science like dark matter and brane theory, providing plausible uses of these as yet unproven and poorly understood concepts. So does that make it hard science fiction or fantasy? Carver himself describes it as “out on the ragged edge of what most people consider hard science fiction.” And I think I’ll go with that!
Bandicutt and his three alien companions and two uplifted robot companions have been swept away to a distant part of the galaxy near the Great Orion Nebula and there they have been ‘volunteered’ for another mission, this time involving sentient stars that need saving from non-organic intelligences with the aid of some multidimensional beings.
Carver’s writing is really very good; he develops all his characters well and gives us enough science to make things plausible without swamping the lay reader with too much detail. Sometimes I do find the behaviour of some of the characters a little unlikely but then again, they are alien… He continues to inject a scattering of humour mainly through the two robots who undoubtedly owe at least a little to C-3PO and R2-D2, for which I am prepared to forgive him as they are never made into quite such cartoon characters as those two! The pacing is good, and the action keeps driving the story on throughout.
All in all, a very good book and I’m rather glad that what had originally been intended to be, I believe, just three books has ended up as six. I’m very much looking forward to the final two.
Bandicutt and his three alien companions and two uplifted robot companions have been swept away to a distant part of the galaxy near the Great Orion Nebula and there they have been ‘volunteered’ for another mission, this time involving sentient stars that need saving from non-organic intelligences with the aid of some multidimensional beings.
Carver’s writing is really very good; he develops all his characters well and gives us enough science to make things plausible without swamping the lay reader with too much detail. Sometimes I do find the behaviour of some of the characters a little unlikely but then again, they are alien… He continues to inject a scattering of humour mainly through the two robots who undoubtedly owe at least a little to C-3PO and R2-D2, for which I am prepared to forgive him as they are never made into quite such cartoon characters as those two! The pacing is good, and the action keeps driving the story on throughout.
All in all, a very good book and I’m rather glad that what had originally been intended to be, I believe, just three books has ended up as six. I’m very much looking forward to the final two.
January 4, 2012
I did not read the previous books of the series - possibly the reason I did not like it - actually I did not finish it. Could not be engaged by the characters. Long descriptions of almost abstract entities felt by telepathy.... science quite implausible
February 9, 2022
When I first began listening to this audiobook, I didn't immediately realize the story took place in the middle of an ongoing series. Once I noticed that it was Book 4 in the Chaos Chronicles, I still pressed ahead and managed to enjoy the novel as a standalone with a few unanswered questions that I presumed would be answered if I went back to read books 1-3 (which I intend to do), but overall I didn't have a problem diving right in and highly enjoying this book.
The narrator, Stefan Rudnicki, performed flawlessly as he does in every book I've ever heard narrated by him (i.e. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card). He is an exceptionally talented voice actor. It was especially interesting when one of the segments included sound effects, an unexpected pleasure.
Sunborn begins with a prologue in the POV of Deeaab, "a being that was neither matter nor energy" emerging from another dimension and another universe into our own with the ability to mold and shape time like clay. This character appears throughout the novel at key moments. I was intrigued by how much emotion the author infused into him and the other worldly characters that make appearances throughout. That is one of this book's main strengths. The scenes are emotionally charged and non-human characters are given great depth.
Within this epic space opera, a hefty dose of grounding comes through the main character named John Bandicut, one of the few humans that appears in the book. His team consists of three aliens and two robots. They make up a crew traveling the cosmos to solve problems and save planets such as Earth from destruction when shockwaves from an unknown source cause a series of stars to go supernova. While seeking a cause for the death of these stars, Bandicut and co. make a discovery: some stars are sentient.
When a robot leads Bandicut and his team on a quest to discover the source of the shockwaves that are killing the stars, their journey leads to another discovery: a malevolent artificial intelligence could be responsible. Either way, the repercussions mean Earth is in danger and Bandicut's crew has to find a way to intervene.
I won't give any spoilers here, but will add that it's a well-paced novel with frequent arising conflict that kept me eagerly listening. The fascinating characters and highly imaginative plot are enough reason for me to go back and start from the beginning of the series. I definitely recommend this book.
The narrator, Stefan Rudnicki, performed flawlessly as he does in every book I've ever heard narrated by him (i.e. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card). He is an exceptionally talented voice actor. It was especially interesting when one of the segments included sound effects, an unexpected pleasure.
Sunborn begins with a prologue in the POV of Deeaab, "a being that was neither matter nor energy" emerging from another dimension and another universe into our own with the ability to mold and shape time like clay. This character appears throughout the novel at key moments. I was intrigued by how much emotion the author infused into him and the other worldly characters that make appearances throughout. That is one of this book's main strengths. The scenes are emotionally charged and non-human characters are given great depth.
Within this epic space opera, a hefty dose of grounding comes through the main character named John Bandicut, one of the few humans that appears in the book. His team consists of three aliens and two robots. They make up a crew traveling the cosmos to solve problems and save planets such as Earth from destruction when shockwaves from an unknown source cause a series of stars to go supernova. While seeking a cause for the death of these stars, Bandicut and co. make a discovery: some stars are sentient.
When a robot leads Bandicut and his team on a quest to discover the source of the shockwaves that are killing the stars, their journey leads to another discovery: a malevolent artificial intelligence could be responsible. Either way, the repercussions mean Earth is in danger and Bandicut's crew has to find a way to intervene.
I won't give any spoilers here, but will add that it's a well-paced novel with frequent arising conflict that kept me eagerly listening. The fascinating characters and highly imaginative plot are enough reason for me to go back and start from the beginning of the series. I definitely recommend this book.
April 17, 2024
3.5 stars
My first impression was that the characters reacted too much to what was going on, rather than initiating action or even learning anything. Stuff happens to them, but they don’t know why, until much later in the book, and by then, it was almost too late; I was close to cruising at that point, just about ready to ride it out without the story mattering. At least the writing was enjoyable. Fortunately, things started picking up at that point, finally drawing me into the story. And what an imaginative story –it goes beyond physics almost into fantasy, with talking stars, n-space technology that can act as nearly-magical shields or hyperspace lanes, sentient clouds, and all sorts of bizarre stuff that the characters just have to take for granted. It’s almost too much, as I wish there were more explanations, but I’m sure I wouldn’t understand them. The knowledge the crew does gain comes only when they start taking risks, and most of that comes from John himself. I felt like most of the other characters were under-utilized. They contributed some information, but very little of it was all that critical or essential. Finally, I suspect the secondary storyline, which takes up a very small percentage of this book, will bring about a love triangle later on. I didn’t think it was necessary, but hope I’m proven wrong.
My first impression was that the characters reacted too much to what was going on, rather than initiating action or even learning anything. Stuff happens to them, but they don’t know why, until much later in the book, and by then, it was almost too late; I was close to cruising at that point, just about ready to ride it out without the story mattering. At least the writing was enjoyable. Fortunately, things started picking up at that point, finally drawing me into the story. And what an imaginative story –it goes beyond physics almost into fantasy, with talking stars, n-space technology that can act as nearly-magical shields or hyperspace lanes, sentient clouds, and all sorts of bizarre stuff that the characters just have to take for granted. It’s almost too much, as I wish there were more explanations, but I’m sure I wouldn’t understand them. The knowledge the crew does gain comes only when they start taking risks, and most of that comes from John himself. I felt like most of the other characters were under-utilized. They contributed some information, but very little of it was all that critical or essential. Finally, I suspect the secondary storyline, which takes up a very small percentage of this book, will bring about a love triangle later on. I didn’t think it was necessary, but hope I’m proven wrong.
November 1, 2025
This fourth book in the "Chaos Chronicles" series gains a character or two and loses a character or two, as the adventure continues. I didn't enjoy this book as much as the last one in the series. Carver pushes the line between science fiction and fantasy in this series, and this book seems to have crossed that line and veered into the fantasy realm.
Early in the story, we find out that the team is enroute to save some dying stars, literally. It seems that stars are actually living, concious beings and they are being killed by an evil entity. There are also some huge black things from another universe that are going to be helping our guys along with another entity that is partially in our "dimension" and partially in another dimension. Many of the characters that are referred to throughout the narrative are ephemeral beings that are not really described. There are shadow beings, and trans-dimensional beings interacting with our very corporeal heros. Then there is "n space", which is where some, but not all of the action takes place. "n space" is never described by the author but he uses its properties (which are never revealed) to get our guys out of bad situations. The big black things can also use "time bubbles" to allow our guys talk to the stars, and to help capture some of the bad guys Throughout the book, sciencey jargon is applied liberally as pseudo-explanations for what is going on. And to make matters even worse, some of the battles occur only within a character's mind.
Reading this book is like experiencing a vivid dream where things seem to almost make sense, but then they really don't. I would have given up half-way through the story but the author does have the ability to create empathy between the reader and the characters. He also keeps the action going from start to finish. So much so that never-ending, one-crisis-leads-to-another, ocasionally gets exhausting. I did enjoy the chapters involving Julie and the Translator. So, for those reasons I am being a bit generous and giving this book 3 stars. I am now going to take a break from this series to read something else. I may come back or I may not.
Early in the story, we find out that the team is enroute to save some dying stars, literally. It seems that stars are actually living, concious beings and they are being killed by an evil entity. There are also some huge black things from another universe that are going to be helping our guys along with another entity that is partially in our "dimension" and partially in another dimension. Many of the characters that are referred to throughout the narrative are ephemeral beings that are not really described. There are shadow beings, and trans-dimensional beings interacting with our very corporeal heros. Then there is "n space", which is where some, but not all of the action takes place. "n space" is never described by the author but he uses its properties (which are never revealed) to get our guys out of bad situations. The big black things can also use "time bubbles" to allow our guys talk to the stars, and to help capture some of the bad guys Throughout the book, sciencey jargon is applied liberally as pseudo-explanations for what is going on. And to make matters even worse, some of the battles occur only within a character's mind.
Reading this book is like experiencing a vivid dream where things seem to almost make sense, but then they really don't. I would have given up half-way through the story but the author does have the ability to create empathy between the reader and the characters. He also keeps the action going from start to finish. So much so that never-ending, one-crisis-leads-to-another, ocasionally gets exhausting. I did enjoy the chapters involving Julie and the Translator. So, for those reasons I am being a bit generous and giving this book 3 stars. I am now going to take a break from this series to read something else. I may come back or I may not.
January 22, 2022
This book throws you into strange sci fi places and situations, like a space port that spends days trying to force you to go on a vague mission, but won't really give you control of the mission until everything is completely out of control, including your space ship's walls which start melting and reforming. Bizarre.
The characters in the novel cover a wide range of sentient beings with hidden agendas and troubling pasts that haunt them at inconvenient times.
How different sections of the novel connect with other sections is often confusing, and every single section drags on and on in repetitious circles
The characters in the novel cover a wide range of sentient beings with hidden agendas and troubling pasts that haunt them at inconvenient times.
How different sections of the novel connect with other sections is often confusing, and every single section drags on and on in repetitious circles
December 21, 2024
Carver is a good writer, easy to follow, clear concepts, nice pace. He also has big ideas, and Sunborn involves multiple alien species with different special abilities, modified with translator stones, intelligent robotic devices that run the ship, ships that reconfigure themselves and travel outside regular space, and personas that dwell within characters as advisors. Beyond that are intelligent stars, enemies of immense power, and galactic danger stakes. I chose to read the 4th book in the series without reading the first three just to see if I could follow the author's plot without the backstory. I could; this could almost be a stand-alone book with occasional references to adventures and conflicts that came before. However, it was a tough read to follow at the slow pace I was reading it. Too many characters with strange abilities to keep them all aligned.
July 1, 2018
Could not get past page 4. An entity that talks to stars in pain? A crack interstellar traveling adventure team? Including a human male from Earth and a female empath from somewhere else, and zzzzzz.
November 28, 2017
The best in the series since the 1st one. Very interesting. About 3.8 stars
March 31, 2018
I enjoyed this book
Many hero's some died and left, some came back renewed. It is all the twists and turns you never expect that interests me.
Many hero's some died and left, some came back renewed. It is all the twists and turns you never expect that interests me.
June 29, 2018
Picked this up by chance. Carver's spectrum of alien life forms is one of the most imaginative I've run across, but otherwise this was a bit of a dud. Pretty formulaic.
September 14, 2013
Sunborn, by Jeffrey A Carver, is truly a novel of epic proportions. Something malevolent is killing living stars.
Fresh from a solving a galactic mystery, a human, John Bandicut, three beings and two robots are enlisted in the fight by Jeeves, a sentient robot, just when they were hoping for a respite.
This is a non-stop ride that takes them to the Starmaker Nebula using a quick transport method called threading space aboard an n-space ship that is more energy than a solid. There they must first discover what the enemy is and how it’s destroying stars before they can try to stop it.
From the frying pan into the fire and back again, this intrepid team of human, robots and aliens leaps across vast reaches of space, encountering other beings of immense power and knowledge as they seek answers.
Carver creates a panorama of situations and adventures that pushes the team’s abilities and friendships to their limits and beyond. The cast of characters is unique and as real as you and I, though with an alien flare.
Their ship has no offense weapons, so to defeat the enemy they must use their wits and the special talents of the beings they encounter along the way.
Threaded through this story is yet another. Julie Stone, Bandicut’s girlfriend, a scientist at a mining colony on the moon Triton, encounters an alien device that speaks only to her. The device agrees to allow the humans to transport it to Earth, but once aboard the Park Avenue everything changes. Julie and the device take off in a maintenance shuttle to stop an alien device that’s mission is to destroy Earth.
Julie’s story is a novel all its own as they hunt down, capture and attempt to destroy the device before it destroys them, escapes and completes its mission. Much easier said than done.
As a fan of Carver, I was pleased to see this novel not only meets my expectations, but roars past them with quality writing, believable characters and a tale of universal magnitude.
Fresh from a solving a galactic mystery, a human, John Bandicut, three beings and two robots are enlisted in the fight by Jeeves, a sentient robot, just when they were hoping for a respite.
This is a non-stop ride that takes them to the Starmaker Nebula using a quick transport method called threading space aboard an n-space ship that is more energy than a solid. There they must first discover what the enemy is and how it’s destroying stars before they can try to stop it.
From the frying pan into the fire and back again, this intrepid team of human, robots and aliens leaps across vast reaches of space, encountering other beings of immense power and knowledge as they seek answers.
Carver creates a panorama of situations and adventures that pushes the team’s abilities and friendships to their limits and beyond. The cast of characters is unique and as real as you and I, though with an alien flare.
Their ship has no offense weapons, so to defeat the enemy they must use their wits and the special talents of the beings they encounter along the way.
Threaded through this story is yet another. Julie Stone, Bandicut’s girlfriend, a scientist at a mining colony on the moon Triton, encounters an alien device that speaks only to her. The device agrees to allow the humans to transport it to Earth, but once aboard the Park Avenue everything changes. Julie and the device take off in a maintenance shuttle to stop an alien device that’s mission is to destroy Earth.
Julie’s story is a novel all its own as they hunt down, capture and attempt to destroy the device before it destroys them, escapes and completes its mission. Much easier said than done.
As a fan of Carver, I was pleased to see this novel not only meets my expectations, but roars past them with quality writing, believable characters and a tale of universal magnitude.
May 15, 2012
God, why does modern sci-fi have to be so INTERMINABLE when you read it? I only got ten or fifteen pages in before I was exhausted by interpreting all the // and italics and <> of varying dialogues between Made-up Vowel Sounds 1 and Made-Up Vowel Sounds 2.
People are all jazzed about "hard" sci-fi, but I've never really gotten into a book that bills itself as such because usually by "hard sci-fi" they mean "lacking in imaginative scope because they're way impressed with name-dropping smidges of string and chaos theory that they picked up from some high kid on public transit instead of letting readers fill in the unnecessary details with their own minds."
People are all jazzed about "hard" sci-fi, but I've never really gotten into a book that bills itself as such because usually by "hard sci-fi" they mean "lacking in imaginative scope because they're way impressed with name-dropping smidges of string and chaos theory that they picked up from some high kid on public transit instead of letting readers fill in the unnecessary details with their own minds."
November 12, 2015
I loved this latest book from Jeffrey Carver, and hope he continues the series! There are just too many loose ends to stop here.
One of the great things about this book (actually the whole series of books) is it gets me thinking on a cosmic scale. The characters feel it, too, and their stories are believably told.
The science, while fiction, is well researched and presented. It can make your head spin (I'm a professional geek, but not an astrophysicist!), but it's still entertaining.
The characters are engaging, mostly likeable, and the author does a great job of maintaining cohesion between books.
Read it! Read the first three books first - the background is important!
One of the great things about this book (actually the whole series of books) is it gets me thinking on a cosmic scale. The characters feel it, too, and their stories are believably told.
The science, while fiction, is well researched and presented. It can make your head spin (I'm a professional geek, but not an astrophysicist!), but it's still entertaining.
The characters are engaging, mostly likeable, and the author does a great job of maintaining cohesion between books.
Read it! Read the first three books first - the background is important!
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August 24, 2022I read the first 3 in the series before coming beginning this one, which may have helped me relate to the characters in a different way. I had a sense of their explorations, frustrations, and desires that helped put this book into a psychological context.
But this book was not really like the other books, except at a surface level of being forced against ones own personal will into the unknown. This book has changed the way I think about the universe, and what it means to listen to the stars.
But this book was not really like the other books, except at a surface level of being forced against ones own personal will into the unknown. This book has changed the way I think about the universe, and what it means to listen to the stars.
May 17, 2016
Bandicut and company have fallen out of the frying pan and into the fire in Sunborn, Book 4 of The Chaos Chronicles. This go round they actually have a choice: accept the mission and possibly die or don't accept the mission and probably die. As if saving worlds wasn't a big enough challenge for them, this time they've been tasked with saving a stellar nursery, a job that will push them to the breaking point and possibly beyond. Each book in this series has been better than the last and Sunborn is no exception. I hope Mr. Carver finishes writing Book 5 soon.
December 1, 2010
I thought this book was as good as the rest in the series, and it picked back up a character that I was really hoping wouldn't be forgotten. I don't want to say too much, but it ended right before an event involving said character that I've been waiting the whole series for, can't wait for the next one!
April 14, 2013
Given that he waited almost 20 years for book 4, he dod a good job. He incorporated some new scientific discoveries and got the tension moving with the plot nicely. I really enjoyed this and look forward to the next few books in the series. But here in 2013 there ia no evidence after 5 years that he has plans for sequels which would be a shame.
May 19, 2014
A captivating trip
I am not much into writing reviews. I tend to read & enjoy. The Chaos Chronicles takes one on a very different sci first trip with imagination of that "universe" truly different and mind opening. Sunburn was the 4th book in the series and I anxiously await the next installment.
I am not much into writing reviews. I tend to read & enjoy. The Chaos Chronicles takes one on a very different sci first trip with imagination of that "universe" truly different and mind opening. Sunburn was the 4th book in the series and I anxiously await the next installment.
March 3, 2015
The diverse team of 6 under the leadership of Bandicut get to communicate with suns and save a fair swag of the galaxy from the evil empire of machines that plan the demise of organic life in the universe. All in a few days work. Better than previous in series but continuing 'over the top' which I suppose is what SF is about.
January 27, 2020
Simply Masterful
Yet another page turner, Jeffrey Carver continues to deliver with the latest chapter in the Chaos Chronicles.
From opening scene to the epilogue, I found myself unable to put the book down for long.
If you have read the first three books, DON'T STOP NOW! You'll regret not finishing this grand adventure with our company of heroes!
Yet another page turner, Jeffrey Carver continues to deliver with the latest chapter in the Chaos Chronicles.
From opening scene to the epilogue, I found myself unable to put the book down for long.
If you have read the first three books, DON'T STOP NOW! You'll regret not finishing this grand adventure with our company of heroes!
July 6, 2022
This one was a head trip. This author isn't completely original. The main (rather shocking) concept behind this book (no spoilers) I first encountered in Frank Herbert's Whipping Star and Dosadi Experiment books. This author is very good at taking concepts from other sci-fi authors and shows and work them into his own original series.
June 4, 2014
Loved it! I can hardly wait to read the next book!
Loved it! I can hardly wait to read the next book!
This book is very sci-fi. I could hardly put it down. I look forward to the next adventure. I recommend this book to sci-fi lovers!
Loved it! I can hardly wait to read the next book!
This book is very sci-fi. I could hardly put it down. I look forward to the next adventure. I recommend this book to sci-fi lovers!
March 18, 2015
Too much hand waving buzz word science, only one character I cared about, and a plot I couldn't swallow.
It's written well, and moves along enough I almost enjoyed it regardless.
Unless you've read the previous novels ( I haven't) I'd skip this one.
It's written well, and moves along enough I almost enjoyed it regardless.
Unless you've read the previous novels ( I haven't) I'd skip this one.
July 21, 2017
I am waiting, rather impatiently, for book 5, which has been almost 9 years in the making.
While I enjoyed the Star Rigger books immensely, I am dying to see what has happened to John Bandicut and his motley crew.
Please bring us back into John's life!
While I enjoyed the Star Rigger books immensely, I am dying to see what has happened to John Bandicut and his motley crew.
Please bring us back into John's life!
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