Intruder is #13 in the Foreigner Series by CJ Cherryh and it is definitely not a series that it is easy to start in the middle (so if you are new to this world, to quote the words of the song "Let's start at the very beginning, it's a very good place to start..")I've been enthralled by the recurr...
Review Title: How do you communicate with a race that you never met or never seen before?Story:The world had faced a threat that it had never seen before and had never expected to come to pass. This threat was averted, but at a terrible cost to those who faced it. There was only one man that su...
I've been a fan of C. J. Cherryh since I first read Foreigner (the first part in her Foreigner universe series) a little more than five years ago. I've since read (with this one) six sequels in that series as well as the first novel in her Chanur series (and have managed to accumulate quite a few...
This novel is set in the far future of the aftermath of the Company Wars. The Serpents Reach is a small section of space that is centered on one planet intially where a alien life form is found that is ant like in nature but possessing intelligence. Only one group of humans are allowed to interac...
I’ve been rereading many of the novels I enjoyed in my high school days. Voyager in Night is one of the more challenging books by my much revered author, C. J. Cherryh. I reread this one on a Nook and wish that more of her work would be made available on electronic format. Voyager in Night is one...
Here’s the short review: This book gets five stars because it made me agree with genocide, against a sentient alien species that I found beautiful and wanted to live.But that alone is not very satisfying, so here’s the long review:One of the most wonderful aspects of science fiction (particularly...
I have just a few days ago finished this book for the 2nd time and I salute Ms. Cherryh for what I believe is some of her best work. She takes on an interesting challenge in a story which at it's core is science fiction, yet so much of the outer layers are pure fantasy as she explores a desert ...
I bought this book recently, and as happened with another of this author's books, found that I'd owned it before, in the 80s. The story of young woman who loots a tomb and is then followed home by an enigmatic armored warrior. Once the warrior leaves she (deciding that her life is one she doesn't...
With Ms. Cherryh coming out with a new book (Betrayer) I decided it was time to return to some of her earlier books to set my mood right. Because her Alliance/Union series has been a favorite of mine and I haven’t read Tripoint in awhile it became the book to set me in the mood.Tripoint follows ...
It was almost by accident that I discovered this amazing series by Cherryh, who rather quickly has become one of my favorite authors. I have noted in previous reviews that this very definitely is a series that should be read from beginning to end; in order to follow the action with any sense of u...
This series benefits greatly from being read in order, so, soon-to-become-standard warning: We won't give spoilers for the specific book in its review, but we do assume you're up to date on the series to that point.Bren's actions in Malguri have made him a hero by atevi standards, as well as a fo...
Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission in space, the crew of the starship Phoenix return home to find disaster: civil war has broken out, the powerful Western Association has been overthrown, and Tabini-aiji, its forceful leader, is missing. In a desperate move, paidhi Bren Cameron and Tabini's...
I'm bereft! As series go, this has turned out to be one of my favorites of all time. And this is the last book! Not to have more time with these characters feels awful. I hope that Cherryh gets back to them at some point, but given the nine years that have passed since this was published I'm ...
It has been nearly ten years since the starship Phoenix returned to Alpha, the station orbiting the world of the atevi, which had been abandoned following a rift between a faction of the station's inhabitants and the spacers' Pilot's Guild. The unexpected return of the Phoenix has forever changed...
The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, Foreigner, begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true scien...
Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose -- to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shadows. that most wonderous of spells, a Shaping. A Shaping in the form of a, young man ...
This is my first attempt at Cherryh, and I'm on the fence as to whether or not there will be more. I'm surprised that the reviews of this aren't more tepid.The atevi are interesting: the alien species at the heart of the book, dark-skinned, larger than humans, but more importantly hardwired in a ...
tMarak’s world is renewing itself after the Ondat Hammerfall, but are the circumstances that led to Hammerfall renewing themselves as well? Determining this is the mission of Concord Station and the watchers who live there. Procyon, a smart young project tap, assigned to the immortal Marak like...
National best-selling author and winner of three Hugo Awards, C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed Foreigner trilogy-with an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race.The beginning of a second trilogy, Precursor fol...
tPoor Fletcher got left on a station though he had citizenship on a ship, Finity's is . Actually, it was his Mom who was left. She was pregnant and there was a war starting. A ship was that will be fighting battles is no place for a new mom. All hands need to be at their best, so she was left...
Exiles Gate is the fourth and final outing in CJ Cherryh's Morgaine saga; the first three stories having been published under one title, the Chronicles of Morgaine. My copy was a fairly elderly one, tatty, worn out and dogeared, having survived about six house moves, numerous car-boot-sale culls ...
The walls between the worlds are down. A new unfolding has begun... It started long ago, as a war between the shadowy Immortals that persists today, as the wizard Mauryl's Shaping confronts the Shadows summoned from Chaos. Tristen is that Shaping. Both more and less than human, he successfully f...
Now, two of C.J. Cherryh's long-unavailable early classics are together in one omnibus edition. Brothers of Earth and Hunter of Worlds chronicle the survival of solitary humans among hostile, predatory aliens on the fringes of human-explored space-and represent Cherryh's early best.
In the sequel to 'Heavy Time' and prequel to the Hugo award-winning 'Downbelow Station', Paul Dekker is a skilled pilot with the Earth Company Fleet - a new militia being under construction and tasked with suppressing the colony uprising on the planet Cyteen. Dekker is a part of the Hellburner pr...
Heavy Time is Cherryh's fourth book in her Company Wars series of the massive Alliance-Union book continuity. Like most of the Company Wars books, Heavy Time needn't be read in publication order though a few characters from Downbelow Station make cameos.Heavy Time is a military-industrial thrille...
Tristen is both more and less than a man. A summoning, a shaping, he was brought to life by a wizard, to serve a king yet to be crowned.Now the wizard is dead: a united Ylesuin, and a peace this land has never known. Cefwyn needs his only friend, this young man of mysterious origins who is more b...
In Port Eternity: Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette, and Vivien, and they were made people, clone servants who worked aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea of their origins, from those old storytapes of romance, chivalry, h...
3.5 starsI really like Science-Fantasy. It’s not surprising I guess given that two of my favourite genres are the mainstays of the wider umbrella ‘speculative fiction’: sci-fi and fantasy, so the mash-up of the two would seem to be a no-brainer, right? Normally science-fantasy stories tend to hav...
Definitely a high 3.5 stars, but not quite a 4 for me, Cherryh’s _The Pride of Chanur_ combines space opera with some gritty “hard-ish” sf elements in the beginning of a saga that deals with the political and economic ramifications of first contact. In this first volume of the Chanur saga we fol...
The new audiobook is out and I very impressed. First, I am going to concentrate on the audiobook. I am not going to rehash the plot. Suffice it to say that Cherryh manages to write a wonderfully complicated but satisfying book giving Hilfy Chanur center stage. I have read a whole bunch of Foreign...
This is something of an unusual book for Cherryh. Her viewpoint characters tend to be intelligent, somewhat highly strung, and to try to use logic to navigate through their problems. Here, she gives us Bet Yeager. While Bet is certainly not stupid, she operates more on guts or instinct and determ...
I'll admit that the cover was close enough to Dragonriders of Pern to make me uneasy (not to disparage McCaffrey's work--it has simply been a while since I've wanted to read that sort of story), and the background made it sound like yet another "technologically advanced humans encounter peaceful,...
A sequel to Rusalka, set in the magical world of pre-Christian Russia. Petyr and Eveshka, now married and living in domestic bliss in Uulemet's cottage, begin to realize that the past is not truly buried. Premonitions lead to a sense of unease that is terrifyingly realized. Publisher's Weekly In...
(continued from The Kif Strike Back)Chanur's Homecoming is the final episode of the Chanur epic. In other words, the "book" contains only an ending. No beginning. No middle. A reader must have all three episodes before a complete book is in hand. Do not waste your time or money reading just one o...
I liked the other two books in the series and this one wasn't horrible but I just really couldn't get over the ending. It was too wtf. I'm still not quite sure what happened. The whole Chernevog/ Yvgenie mixup was really confusing and never quite fully explained. Also, Pyetr's second daughter def...
At the end of Well of Shiuan the many thousand refugees of a doomed world pour through the open Shiuan Gate into a new world. The consequences are dealt with here, and here lies Morgaine and Vanye's most difficult and unpleasant task yet.The world of the Azeroth Gate, or at least its immediate v...
Cyteen zvaigžņu sistēma ir dibināta 2201. gadā, tā sastāv no planētas un dažāda kalibra kosmosa stacijām. 2300. gadā viņa pasludināja savu neatkarību no Zemes, izraisot karu, kura rezultātā nodibinājās Savienība (Union). Savienībā liela nozīme ir pētniecības centram Reseune, tas nodarbojas ar cil...
They say that you should choose the lesser of two evils and that better the devil you know. One would think that to be a perfect guideline when struggle for power between two great hakkikts unleashed a civil war among the kif species. After all, the rest of Compact space would have to deal with t...
A novel about:How clones make murder a new sexual experience...How rebuilding one man's skeleton made him the most sensitive and powerful man in the galaxy...How a deck of cards was devised that was really programmed to reveal the future...How a lost planet became the mecca of every treasure-hunt...
