The Infinite Sea

Volume 3 of The Chaos Chronicles

Since John Bandicut saved Earth from collision with a comet in Neptune Crossing and saved Shipworld from the boojum of Strange Attractors, his life has become one confrontation with chaos after another.

No sooner has he survived a harrowing escape from Shipworld than he and his eclectic band of aliens find themselves struggling to survive beneath the waves of a distant ocean world. They quickly discover they are not alone. A race of deep-sea humanoid amphibians, the Neri, are in trouble of their own. Long under attack by beings from the surface, they now face an even greater peril from the seafloor depths, a powerful force known as the Maw of the Abyss.

If Bandicut cannot solve the riddle of the Maw, the Neri's beleaguered world will die. And Bandicut and his friends will die with it.

Cover Art by Alan Gutierrez

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First printing, August 1996

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carver, Jeffrey A.
The Infinite Sea / Jeffrey A. Carver.
p. cm.
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book." ISBN 0-312-85609-1
I. Title.
PS3553.A7892I54 1996
813'.54-dc20 96-1408
CIP
First edition: August 1996

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-0-8125-3517-4
ISBN-10: 0-8125-3517-0

Copyright© 1996 by Jeffrey A. Carver

Author's web site: http://www.starrigger.net/

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For Gene, who loves the sea

Books by Jeffrey A. Carver

Seas of Ernathe
Star Rigger's Way
Panglor
The Infinity Link *
The Rapture Effect*
Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway: Clypsis
From a Changeling Star
Down the Stream of Stars
Dragons in the Stars*
Dragon Rigger*
Neptune Crossing*
Strange Attractors*
The Infinite Sea*
Eternity's End*
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries)*
Sunborn (Fall 2008)*

*denotes a Tor Book