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The Rapture Effect


CoverIn a galaxy-spanning novel of adventure and philosophical conflict, set in the year 2165, a fleet of colonizing starships from Earth approaches the planet Argus, 138 light-years from Earth. During their years-long voyage, Earth has developed a stargate and ended up in an interstellar war, waged by robot fighters far from Earth and commanded by the central artificial intelligence of the gnostic system owned by the McConwell Company. When the AI realizes the futility of the war it's engaged in, it sets out to change its own program, engaging the conspiratorial help of a varied crew of humans and aliens and risking the ultimate destruction of all intelligent civilization.

Cover Art by David Mattingly



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Books by Jeffrey A. Carver

The Star Rigger Universe
(in chronological order in the future history)

Panglor
Dragons in the Stars
Dragon Rigger
Star Rigger's Way
Eternity's End
Seas of Ernathe
 

The Chaos Chronicles

Neptune Crossing: Volume One
Strange Attractors: Volume Two
The Infinite Sea: Volume Three
Sunborn: Volume Four
 

Novels of the Starstream

From a Changeling Star
Down the Stream of Stars
 

Standalone Novels

The Infinity Link
The Rapture Effect
Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway: Clypsis
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries novelization)

Dedication Page

To
the Writing Group
for years of making me work harder
and making the story stronger

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and to
Jim Frenkel
for years of faithful and perceptive editing
and friendship
 

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and a special dedication to
the seven crew members of the spaceship
Challenger
and all those before them
who gave their lives reaching for the stars 

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Author's Note

Pali is pronounced PAY-lee.
Kyd is pronounced KIDD.
Ramo is pronounced RAY-mo.
Sage is pronounced like the spice.
 
All alien names are spelled phonetically:
All g's are hard.
An h signifies a slight overexhalation.
An exclamation mark signifies a click, best reproduced by
clicking the tongue against the roof of the mouth.
For example:
!!Ghint is pronounced "click-click"-GHINT.
Or!ge is pronounced OR-"click"-geh.
Dououraym is pronounced DOO-OO-ray-m.
 
All the rest are easy. 

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