Neptune Crossing: 1 (Chaos Chronicles)

When 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.Bandicut is hardly ready for the storm of chaos thats about to blow through his life. He has just made humanitys 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 humanitys greatest cataclysm.Leaving 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 he doesnt live to see it again.Neptune Crossing is the opening volume of the acclaimed hard science fiction series The Chaos Chronicles from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternitys End.Masterfully captures the joy of exploration. --Publishers WeeklyOne 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. -- Science Fiction ChronicleReveals 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