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Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

ETERNITY'S END

Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

BOOKS BY JEFFREY A. CARVER

*The Infinity Link

*The Rapture Effect

Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway: Clypsis

From a Changeling Star

Down the Stream of Stars

THE STAR RIGGER UNIVERSE

Seas of Ernathe

*Star Rigger's Way

*Panglor

*Dragons in the Stars

* Dragon Rigger

*Eternity's End

THE CHAOS CHRONICLES

*Neptune Crossing: Volume One

* Strange Attractors: Volume Two

*The Infinite Sea: Volume Three

•

denotes a Tor Book

Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

ETERNITY'S

END

JEFFREY A. CARVER

TOR®

A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK NEW YORK

This is a work of fiction.

All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used

fictitiously.

Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

ETERNITY'S END

any form.

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

Edited by James Frenkel

A Tor Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

175 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

www.tor.com

Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Carver, Jeffrey A.

Eternity's end / Jeffrey A. Carver.—1st ed.

p. cm.

"A Tom Doherty Associates book." ISBN 0-312-85642-3 (alk. paper)

1. Interplanetary voyages—Fiction.

2. Life on other planets— Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.A7892 E84 2000

813'.54—dc21 00-031677

First Edition: December 2000

Printed in the United States of America

0987654321

Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

For my family, with love— Allysen, Alexandra, and Julia

Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

Acknowledgments

This book took four years to write: forever, it

seemed; an impossible task. But at last it is done. I

owe more than the usual debt to those who helped

me through it, and this is where I get to thank them

publicly.

It's customary to save one's family for the end in

this sort of thing, but I'm going to break with

custom and start with the very best: my wife

Allysen, without whose love and support this book

would never have been written. Thanks for that and

so much more. And what better fans could any

writer ask for than my own smiling daughters?

They've spent more time in my office than anyone

but me, and I doubt they've known what a

wonderful, continual encouragement they were to

me. (Note to A. and J.: I look forward to many

more years of having you peer over my shoulder

asking, "Are you almost done yet, Daddy?") And

thanks to my brother, Charles S. Carver; he knows

why. (Note: if you happen to be in the fields of

personality or social or health psychology, you may

know his books, too.)

Next in line comes my dauntless writing group,

more than twenty years old now! Mary Aldridge,

Richard Bowker, Craig Gardner, Victoria Bolles.

Three times—and more!—they read this book

through, in all of its stages of semi-intelligibility.

Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

They helped me think through many a complex

twist of plot and character, and circled the dumb

parts so you wouldn't have to. I am forever

grateful. Whatever the flaws in this book, you can't

blame them.

Nor can you blame my friend and editor, Jim

Frenkel, who waited patiently, patiently, while I

wrote, rewrote, and rewrote some more. Thanks,

Jim—and not just for that, but for the hard editing,

too. And while I'm at it, thanks to Tom Doherty and

the rest of Tor Books, and my agent Richard Curtis,

for letting me take the time I needed, not just to

finish the book but to finish it right.

A special note of thanks is due to Freeman

Deutsch and Noel

Friedman, for their generous contributions to the

Big Sisters auctions. I hope you enjoy your

namesakes' appearances.

And finally, there's you the reader. Some of you

are new; some of you have been waiting a lonnng

time for the next book. Some of you, in the

CompuServe and SFF Net forums, helped me search

for a title. Well, here it is, and welcome aboard!

Thanks for waiting, and for all the letters and emails

that helped me persevere. You can't imagine how

much they meant to me.

Now, enjoy.

Arlington, MA August, 1999

Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

ETERNITY'S END

PART ONE

Time is the Image

of Eternity.

—Plato

They who see the Flying

Dutchman never, never

reach the shore.

—John Boyle O'Reilly

Eternity’s End Jeffery A. Carver

Prologue

GHOST SHIP

STREAMERS OF light seemed to coil in slow

motion through the corridors of the starship.

The passengers and crew moved in great

straining ripples as they walked through the ship,

carrying on the business of living, if living you could

call it.

The passengers breathed and ate and slept, and

socialized after a fashion. And the crew carried out

their duties, seeing to the needs of the passengers,

repairing machinery, and tending the makeshift

hydroponics gardens that supplied the nutritional

needs of the five hundred-plus souls on board. The

riggers on the bridge continued to search the skies

for a way home, peering into the bewildering mists

of the Flux and wondering what in the name of

creation had gone wrong. Their lives consisted of

ennui and bewilderment, interrupted at long

intervals by heart-pounding excitement when they

sighted another ship... followed inevitably by

piercing despair, when their efforts to make contact

ended in failure.

It was a strange and terrifying limbo, here where

the starship floated, trapped in some enigmatic

layering of the Flux, exiled from the "normal"

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