Starship lost in eternity...

Ghost ship Impris, lost during the War of a Thousand Suns, is the stuff of legend. Her very name conjures the perils of interstellar travel. But no mere legend, she is real—glimpsed on occasion in the hyperdimensional Flux, and then gone. Her passengers and crew live on in a strange limbo, their fate hopelessly caught up in quantum defects in space-time, interstellar piracy, and galactic coverup.

To the pirates of Golen Space, she is a perfect lure, drawing passing ships to their doom. Many innocent star riggers have been captured in such raids and forced to pilot for the murderous pirates. One such rigger, Renwald Legroeder, makes a daring escape and flees to the presumed safety of the Centrist Worlds. But instead of finding asylum, he is framed for treason.

Something is terribly wrong in the Guild of Riggers and the government that should be protecting him. To clear his name--and perhaps to avert a disastrous war between worlds—he must escape a second time, and partner with the amphibious Narseil to return to the Deep Flux and search for the lost Impris. Legroeder's journey takes him back into the heart of raider territory, where he encounters a bewildering array of motives, conspiracies, and even deep-cyber romance. Forging friendships and finding love in the unlikeliest of places, Legroeder must nevertheless put his life on the line to protect the innocent, and preserve a shaky interstellar peace.

A finalist for the Nebula Award, Eternity's End stands as a highlight of the Star Rigger saga, and one of Jeffrey A. Carver's most memorable novels. In 2022, Carver received the Helicon Awards’ Frank Herbert Lifetime Achievement Award for science fiction writing.

“True love, cognitive dissonance, divisions among the enemy, ambitious schemes, another mission—this one deeper than anyone has ever gone before into the substrata of the Flux—and a final resolution that leaves the reader both breathless and satisfied.” —Analog

“You don’t want to wait for the paperback.” —Science Fiction Chronicle

“A mesmerizing tale of human perseverance and courage under pressure that updates the legend of the Flying Dutchman.” —Library Journal

“Carver never runs out of new plot twists to keep the reader coming back for more.”  —
The Washington Post

“Jeff Carver’s Eternity’s End is a fast-moving high-space epic of complex intrigue, desperate action, and romantic love, set in the daringly imagined far-future universe of his more-than-human star-riggers and the cosmic flux where they fly.” —Jack Williamson, author of Terraforming Earth

“One of the few hard SF writers whose characters are as interesting as the deep science.”  —Melissa Scott, author of Dreamships and Trouble and Her Friends

“High adventure in the wonder-filled depths of space with characters you’ll remember long after you finish reading the last page.” —Joan D. Vinge, author of The Snow Queen

“If you think by reading Kim Stanley Robinson and Stephen Baxter and Greg Egan that you’re catching all the best in current hard SF, you’re not: Carver belongs not just on that list, but at the front of it.” —Robert J. Sawyer, author of Flashforward and The WWW Trilogy

“A galactic epic that’s much more than space opera, filled with both drama and bold ideas. Who would have thought a futuristic pirate story could be so original and smart?” —David Brin, author of Existence