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Sunborn: The Chaos Chronicles, Book 4 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

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Stars are dying.

John Bandicut and his companions are summoned to a star-cloud called Starmaker, known to humans as the Orion Nebula, to discover what force threatens newborn stars - and possibly every world within a thousand light-years. Their journey takes them not just into the perils of a stellar nursery but into confrontation with the Mindaru, a billion-year-old AI and adversary of life as they know it. The task is daunting. But with the aid of Deep and Dark, sentient clouds who are perhaps the strangest beings they have met yet in their exceedingly strange journey, there may be hope.

Back on Triton, Julie Stone - briefly Bandicut’s lover before he was transported away to a new life at the edge of the galaxy - encounters the enigmatic translator, the alien entity that first drew Bandicut into his extraordinary adventures. Julie must face her own life-or-death decision in defense of the Earth - while for Bandicut and company, whatever chance they have of stopping the terrifying Mindaru will be found only in the fiery heart of an intelligent sun.

Sunborn continues the harrowing journey through the tumultuous worlds of The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End.

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  1. Listening Length
    15 hours and 30 minutes
  2. Author
    Jeffrey A. Carver
  3. Narrator
    Stefan Rudnicki
  4. Audible release date
    April 15, 2020
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Starstream Publications / Book View Cafe
  7. ASIN
    B0874CCM2B
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Product details

Listening Length 15 hours and 30 minutes
Author Jeffrey A. Carver
Narrator Stefan Rudnicki
Audible.com Release Date April 15, 2020
Publisher Starstream Publications / Book View Cafe
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0874CCM2B
Best Sellers Rank #239,938 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#972 in Hard Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#3,649 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)
#4,736 in Hard Science Fiction (Books)

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JL from NC
5.0 out of 5 stars A sumptuous, creative dinner of fine writing
Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2016
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Carver takes such care with his craft, and each new work is something to savor...great, far-reaching imagination, depth of character, new twists on universal enmity, love, and friendship. There are hints of L'Engle, Niven, Clarke, and Asimov, but Carver is his own standard bearer. Chaos Chronicles are his best series, and Sunborn is the best yet!
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Richard Laingor
4.0 out of 5 stars Better than book #3.
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024
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This book (#4) was a more interesting read than book #3. Better plot and more action. Kept me interested.
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John Cady
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific read. Plausible science.
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2013
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This is by far the best book so far in the Chaos Chronicles. Neptune Crossing was inspired and set a high standard that was not met by Strange Attractors or the Infinite Sea, both of which were chaotic and hard to follow. Carver obviously benefited from the 12 year hiatus between the Infinite Sea and Sunborn. I am no cosmologist, but I think he incorporated new science in the interim that supports the story very well. T
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Daniel M. Kimmel
4.0 out of 5 stars Carver is back!
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2009
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In the mid-nineties Jeffrey Carver released the first three books of a planned six book series called "The Chaos Chronicles." As a friend noted at the time, in telling a story that spanned the galaxy, Carver finally had a canvas big enough for his imagination. Then for more than 10 years no more books. Finally the fourth book, "Sunborn" has arrived. It takes a while to get back into the series, and he realizes that, providing some background reminders without interfering with the present story.

The new plot has Earth facing two threats, one in the Solar System and one 1500 light years away. Both involve human characters interacting with an increasingly bizarre array of aliens. The vaguely humanoid aliens and robots are fun characters, but then Carver introduces characters like you've never seen: a hyperdimensional character seen as a cone in our space, thinking clouds from another universe, and most bizarre of all, sentient stars.

It's a great read leading to not one but two climaxes. The story is fully resolved, but the stage is now set for the bigger conflicts to come. Carver combines likable and all-too human characters (including some of the aliens with hard science and big adventure. If you read the first three books, you'll want this one. If you haven't, time to get started.
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RAR
5.0 out of 5 stars All these marvelous sentient beings!
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2015
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Another great book. We get to learn about types of sentient beings which include dark clouds, suns, black holes and n-space beings. We are still with the companions met in the previous books, but they have a much harder job this time. They are fighting the "Survivors" who are trying to get rid of all biological life in the galaxy. They must enter suns and deal with dark matter, among other things. They manage to save the Orion Nebula, but that is just a tiny part the problem. Julia Stone is back, saving the solar system and where does she end up? On Shipworld, of course. The robots get more and more helpful and self sufficient. Poor Ik loses his translator stones to a virus and they all end up on Shipworld again. I am interested in any future book in the series. So many questions are left unanswered. Does the translator from Triton survive? How/when will Julia and John meet? How will the relationship between John and Antares be affected? Will Dakota become part of a future story? How will Ik get new translator-stones (I'm sure he will)? One of the dark clouds that helped them got translator stones. Will he be part of a future story? Will they all need to go to the center of the galaxy to confront the anti-biological entities? Hope it doesn't take too long for the author to continue this saga.
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JLafleur
3.0 out of 5 stars Have to keep at it....
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2014
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It has a lot of exciting scenes but the last 4 or 5 chapters seemed to get bogged down with a lot of lengthy metaphors and became so wordy I skimmed and skipped just reading the actual conversations between characters. I also found the bellybutton sex scenes between human and alien to be really creepy, gross and unnecessary. I will buy the next book because by this point I want a conclusion and this book leaves you hanging.
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William S. Morris
5.0 out of 5 stars Such Chaos
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017
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There is much in this book that border on fantasy. We're flying around in ships composed of bubbles in interstitial space. (Whatever that is.) We move from one region of interstitial space to another and create these regions of interstitial space. It is important to recognize this capability because our adventurers get in and out of trouble by utilizing various characteristics of interstitial space. Nothing contradictory any more than Merlin waving a wand and saying shazaam. At first I didn't like the book, but the adventure finally got to me so that I stayed up late to finish it. There is obviously supposed to be a sequel. We've got one left behind that just can't be left behind, and we've got a meeting that is supposed to come off, but hasn't yet. Having read the author's Afterword, I decided he met his goals so I concluded the story was a five despite my original dislike of the book. I think the take away here is that nothing in the author's universe is provably wrong, and he makes his physics act consistently. If he needs to do something inconsistent, he just creates a new universe. I found his characters interesting.
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Jeanie
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Series
Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2019
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I came across this series by accident. I read the first three books, and was hooked! Naturally I had to get the next book Sunborn. While I enjoyed it, it was a little bit "out there". It streeeetchd my suspension of disbelief, but I managed to hang on to it. I'm glad, because while our characters seemed to be in situations they couldn't possibly come back from. They did! And they grew, and developed nicely.
I would,( and have) recommended these books to my friends. And while this book was a little bit of a mindbender, it's really worth the read. Just be sure to read them in order. This would be awfully confusing without background context. Mild Spoiler ahead*
I'm looking forward to reading the next two, when they come out. I love the characters, and their bond with each other. I'm wondering what is going to happen with Antares and Julie..not long to wait!
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Ken Hobbs
5.0 out of 5 stars Very spellbinding reading. Can’t wait for the next 2 ...
Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2018
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Very spellbinding reading . Can’t wait for the next 2 books apparently coming sometime in future.
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John P.
4.0 out of 5 stars the chaos chronicles
Reviewed in Italy on August 13, 2018
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reasonably well written, entertaining.
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Inge
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Australia on September 8, 2020
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I absolutely loved this book and the whole series so far. Incredibly innovative, amazing imagination with characters that you get to know well and feel comfortable with. Very much looking forward to the last two but wish it would never end! Thank you Jeffrey!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Becoming a cracking series.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2012
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I downloaded the first four books one after the other, as I read them. It has been a long time since I looked forward so much for the next and then the next and then the next and up to Sunborn. Each one is better than the last and I can hardly wait for the next one in the series.

In fairness, I do think that the first half of the first book, Neptune Crossing was a bit awkward and slow and was almost on the point of rejecting it to the discard pile. Very pleased I stuck with it.

We have a series of staggeringly imaginative science fiction here, especially if you like hard SciFi. There are battle's aplenty, but not your conventional spaceships blasting each other with plasma railguns sort of battles. Aliens, but not like the ones we usually encounter in flights of fancy (mostly).

Enough, I'm not going to spoil your fun in finding out. Buy the books and read them for yourselves.

Highly recommended.
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Ulrich
5.0 out of 5 stars Carver - wieder einmal genial
Reviewed in Germany on April 17, 2011
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Der Autor versteht es einfach, auch die wildesten naturwissenschaftlichen Phantasien wirklich seriös wirkend darzustellen.
Dabei wird die Geschichte jedoch nie einseitig technisch-wissenschaftlich, im Gegenteil, auch die verschiedenen Charaktere werden im Verlauf der Erzählung sehr schön entwickelt; ihre Stärken und Schwächen spielen eine wesentliche Rolle im Verlauf der Geschichte. Es "menschelt" (auch bez. der Aliens :-) gerade im richtigen Maß.
Hard SF at its best - der Autor hat ein gewaltige Fantasie und versteht es, diese in Form von packenden Erzählungen mitzuteilen.
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