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From a Changeling Star
Jeffrey A. Carver
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual events or locals or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright 1988 by Jeffrey A. Carver
First e-reads publication 1999
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ISBN 0-7592-0665-1
Author Biography
A native of Huron, Ohio, Jeffrey Carver has lived in New England since graduating from
Brown University in 1971 with a degree in English. In 1974 he earned a Master of Marine
Affairs degree from the University of Rhode Island. He has been a high school wrestler, a scuba
diving instructor, a quahog diver, a UPS sorter, a word-processing consultant, a private pilot,
and a stay-at-home dad. He lives with his family in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he divides
his writing time between fiction writing and instructional design/technical writing. He is a
member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and The Authors Guild. His
interests include his wife and kids, science, religion, nature, underwater exploration, and flying.
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Acknowledgments
I could not have written this book without the help of numerous talented and
knowledgeable people, all of whom were exceedingly generous with their time and knowledge.
The novel owes its genesis in part to the work of K. Eric Drexler, who provided me with
considerable information about the field of nanotechnology, not only through personal
conversation, but also through his own excellent book, The Engines of Creation. If you like this
novel, I heartily recommend his nonfiction account of the emerging technologies of the very
small.
For help with the astrophysics, I must give the greatest thanks to Larry Molnar, who
provided long hours of thoughtful conversation on a subject that could quite easily have been
classified as bizarre. I hope I haven’t damaged his professional reputation. Nor those of the
following of his colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, all of whom
sat down with the curious science fiction writer who appeared on their respective doorsteps
and willingly explained the stuff of their trade: Bob Scherrer, for the scoop on cosmic string,

which is not quite the same thing as the hyperstring described here; Margarita Karovska and
Peter Nisenson, who joyfully told me all about Betelgeuse and how I might blow it up; Bob
Kirshner, who told me about supernovas, and how I might not blow it up. Also C. F. A. librarian
Joyce Rey-Watson, who would probably lose her job if her boss knew how helpful she’d been
to a curious science fiction writer when she was supposed to be doing other things; and a
librarian whose name I do not know at the Arlington Bobbins Library, who helped me with
prefixes.
The following is obviously a work of fiction; nevertheless, I’ve aimed for scientific
credibility throughout (subject to some important future developments, such as n-dimensional
fields, FTL, and the seventh force). However, please don’t blame any of these people for the
ways in which I have fiddled with their technical input.