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Jeffrey A. Carver (b. 1949) is an American science fiction writer. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he lived in Huron, Ohio until attending Brown University, from which he graduated in 1971 with a degree in English. In 1974, he received a Master of Marine Affairs degree from the University of Rhode Island. Soon after, he began selling his SF. He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a technical writer and developmental editor, a private pilot, and a stay-at-home dad. He lives in the Boston, Massachusetts area with his family.

Carver is primarily a writer of character-driven hard SF novels, though certain of his stories blend elements of fantasy with science fiction. His novel Eternity's End, part of his popular Star Rigger universe, was a finalist for the Nebula Award. His most recent novel, Battlestar Galactica (novelization of the TV miniseries), represents his one foray into media tie-ins.

Carver has taught writing at a variety of workshops, including Odyssey, the New England Young Writers Conference, and an ongoing workshop he co-teaches with Craig Shaw Gardner. In 1995, he developed and hosted a television series, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing—a live, interactive show broadcast into middle school classrooms by the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications. Carver later expanded that teaching into an interactive course, Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, first published on CD, and now available free online, at www.writesf.com.

Contents 1 Novels 2 Short fiction 3 Nonfiction 4 Translation 5 External links

Novels

Books by Jeffrey A. Carver began with the first three novels of the Star Rigger universe: Seas Of Ernathe (1976), Star Rigger's Way (1978; revised edition, 1994), and Panglor (1980; revised edition, 1996). These were followed by the standalone novels The Infinity Link (1984), a near-future first-contact story, and The Rapture Effect (1987), a different take on the same theme. He then ventured into the milieu of spaceship racing with Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway: Clypsis (1987). Taking a sharp turn to nanotechnology, supernovas, and the far future, he wrote From A Changeling Star (1989) and its sequel, Down The Stream Of Stars (1990). He then returned to the Star Rigger universe with Dragons In The Stars (1992) and Dragon Rigger (1993). Beginning a multivolume series entitled The Chaos Chronicles, he moved back into hard SF with Neptune Crossing (1994), Strange Attractors (1995), and The Infinite Sea (1996). Though three Chaos books remained to be written, he returned for a time to the Star Rigger universe with Eternity's End (2000), a novel that took five years to write. The fourth Chaos book proved to be an even longer project. While working on it, he detoured briefly again to write Battlestar Galactica (2006), then went on to complete Sunborn (forthcoming), which picks up the Chaos story where it left off with The Infinite Sea.

Short fiction

While not a prolific writer of short fiction, Carver has had stories published in a number of magazines and anthologies: "...Of No Return" (Fiction, 1974), "Alien Persuasion" (Galaxy, 1975), "Seastate Zero" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1977), "Love Rogo" (Future Love, 1977), "What Gods Are These?" (Galileo, 1978), "Though All the Mountains Lie Between" (Science Fiction Times, 1980 and Dragons Of Darkness, 1981), "Life-Tides" (Habitats, 1984), "Reality School: In the Entropy Zone" (Science Fiction Age, 1995), and "Shapeshifter Finals" (Warriors Of Blood And Dream, 1995).

Nonfiction

His nonfiction includes contributions to Advice to Writers (ed. Jon Winokur, 1999), The Spirit of Writing (ed. Mark Waldman, 2001), Cows: a Rumination (ed. Carl Hileman, 2004), and 100 Ways to Beat the Blues (ed. Tanya Tucker, 2005).

Translation

His work has been translated into German, Russian, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Japanese.

External links

Author's web site: Science Fiction Worlds of Jeffrey A. Carver

Jeffrey A. Carver's blog: Pushing a Snake Up a Hill

Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, an online guide to the crafting of SF and fantasy, covering fundamentals of turning ideas into stories, creating believable characters, language and style, workshopping, etc. Geared for young adult aspiring writers, but not limited to that group.