Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

I don't get even, I get odder.