Jeffrey A. Carver is the author of numerous science fiction novels, a teacher of the craft of writing, and an increasingly erratic blogger. His most recent novel was also his his first movie novelization—Battlestar Galactica: the Miniseries, published early in 2006 by Tor Books. It was an enjoyable change of pace. Though often called a hard-science-fiction writer, Carver's greatest interest as a writer has always been character development and story, and a healthy sense of wonder.

Prior to Galactica, his most recent novel was the Nebula-nominated Eternity's End, set in one of his favorite places not on Earth, the Star Rigger universe. Eternity's End was published by Tor and also by the Science Fiction Book Club. Since then, he has been working at a chisel-and-stone pace on Sunborn, the long-delayed fourth volume of The Chaos Chronicles. That series, a multi-volume hard-SF story inspired by the science of chaos theory, began with Neptune Crossing (Tor, 1994), Strange Attractors (Tor, 1995), and The Infinite Sea (Tor, 1996). Volume four is slated for completion late this year.

Carver's other novels include Seas of Ernathe (Laser, 1976), Star Rigger's Way (Dell/SFBC/revised edition, 1978; Tor, 1994), Panglor (Dell/revised edition, 1980; Tor, 1996), The Infinity Link (Bluejay/Tor, 1984), The Rapture Effect (Tor, 1987), Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway: Clypsis (Bantam, 1987), From a Changeling Star (Bantam Spectra/SFBC, 1989) and its sequel Down the Stream of Stars (Bantam Spectra, 1990), and two additional novels set in the Star Rigger universe: Dragons in the Stars (Tor, 1992) and its sequel Dragon Rigger (Tor, 1993). Many of these are available in e-book format, or soon will be.

His short fiction has been published in the anthologies Warriors of Blood and Dream (Roger Zelazny, ed.), Habitats (Susan Shwartz, ed.), Dragons of Darkness (Orson Scott Card, ed.), Future Love: A Science Fiction Triad (Roger Elwood, ed.), as well as the magazines Science Fiction Age, Science Fiction Times, Galileo, F&SF, Galaxy, and Fiction, and the Sunday supplement of the Boston Herald. Several of these stories are freely available for reading on his website (see below).

In 1995, Jeffrey developed and hosted the educational TV series, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing—a live, interactive broadcast into middle school classrooms across the country. He carried that work forward into a complete writing course on CD-ROM, Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, published by MathSoft as part of their home-study software package, StudyWorks! Science Deluxe. He has now made the entire course available online, free of charge, at www.writesf.com. Come visit!

Carver lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife, two daughters, a boxer, and a rare Egyptian desert sand cat. He works both as a stay-at-home dad and as a freelance web content writer and developmental editor. His interests include flying, underwater exploration, and astronomy. Visit him online at www.starrigger.net, or at his blog, starrigger.blogspot.com.