Seas of Ernathe was Jeffrey A. Carver’s first novel, and the first full-length tale of what was to become his popular Star Rigger Universe. Set farthest into the future of all the Star Rigger stories and thus sixth in the internal time sequence in the series, Seas of Ernathe sets the stage for a new cycle of history. A touching story of love and personal discovery, it leads the way to the rediscovery of the mode of star travel that once knit galactic civilization together.

E-Reads has published a number of Star Rigger titles as well as his Dragon novels. Each book is a complete and satisfying novel in its own right, so you can take them up in any sequence. But here’s how the author has ordered them in time:

Panglor (Star Rigger 1)
Dragons in the Stars (Star Rigger 2)
Dragon Rigger (Star Rigger 3)
Star Rigger’s Way (Star Rigger 4)
Eternity’s End (Star Rigger 5 – free ebook from Starrigger.net)
Seas of Ernathe (Star Rigger 6)

And, to set them all in the context of Carver’s grand vision, you’ll want to read his e-essay, “Of Consoles and Dragons’ Claws”.

Subsequent to the Star Rigger and Dragons books Carver launched The Chaos Chronicles for Tor. The latest in the other series is Sunborn, and the author has transformed into the auteur of a beautiful, lilting, mysterious video to promote it. Not only did he take a hand in every aspect of the production but that’s his voice narrating it as well. How are we going to keep him at his desk when Hollywood beckons? View the video and you’ll see what we mean.

Here’s what Publishers Weekly had to say about Sunborn:

The long-anticipated fourth entry in Carver’s Chaos Chronicles (after 1996′s The Infinite Sea) is space opera at its most agreeably and classically science fictional. Someone or something is plotting murder on an interstellar scale, and a small company of exiles led by human John Bandicut may be the galaxy’s only chance of salvation. The prospective victims are sentient stars living in the Orion Nebula; half the challenge is simply opening communications. Luckily, Bandicut’s allies and sponsors include robots, noncorporeal symbiotes and the incredibly ancient multidimensional entity Deeaab. With such a large cast and a parallel plot involving a threat to Earth itself, character development is necessarily sketched broadly. Some may find the narrative overly stage-managed, but Carver skillfully rotates viewpoints and weaves the choreography directly into the plot. This installment is a cut above the earlier books and will be entirely accessible to any reader who appreciates high-powered stellar and n-dimensional physics blended with old-school space-faring.