{"product_id":"neptune-crossing-9781951612979","title":"Neptune Crossing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeffrey A. Carver\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Starstream Publications \/ Faery Cat Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Starstream Publications \/ Faery Cat Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science Fiction - Space Opera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen John Bandicut falls into a cavern on Triton, his life changes irrevocably--and for an alien quarx, a million years of solitude abruptly comes to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBandicut is hardly ready for the storm of chaos that's about to blow through his life. He has just made humanity's first contact with alien life--an intelligence that takes up residence in his mind and will be revealed to no one else. The quarx, part of an ancient galactic civilization that manipulates chaos theory to predict catastrophic events, seeks to prevent an event that could destroy the Earth. But it must have help. If Bandicut chooses to trust the quarx, he must break all the rules--indeed, sacrifice his life as he knows it--to prevent humanity's greatest cataclysm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeaving friends and lover behind, hurtling across the solar system in a stolen spaceship, Bandicut can only pray that his actions will save the Earth. Even if \u003cem\u003ehe\u003c\/em\u003e doesn't live to see it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeptune Crossing \u003c\/em\u003eis the opening volume of the acclaimed hard science fiction series, \u003cem\u003eThe Chaos Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e, from the Nebula-nominated author of \u003cem\u003eEternity's End\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Masterfully captures the joy of exploration.\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the very best things Carver has written, a traditional adventure filled with mystery and wonder and featuring a likable and believable protagonist thrust onto a stage for which he is ill prepared.\" -- \u003cem\u003eScience Fiction Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reveals an alien encounter brushing hard against a soul, and takes us from there to the far reaches of the cosmos, all with the sure touch of a writer who knows his science. Jeff Carver has done it again!\" --David Brin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Starstream Publications \/ Faery Cat Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45413895831703,"sku":"9781951612979","price":1361.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781951612979.webp?v=1767919580","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/neptune-crossing-9781951612979","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}