C. J. Cherryh, Author Daw Books $6.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-88677-637-4
Three-time Hugo award-winning novelist Cherryh depicts a beleaguered human colony on a futuristic alien planet. (Nov.)
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Aspect $21.5 (384p) ISBN 978-0-446-52072-0
Returning to SF's best-developed future history series, Cherryh (Cloud's Rider) once again demonstrates her unequaled ability to imagine what it would be like to live and work in outer space. Fletcher Neihart was born on Pell Station after his...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Warner Books $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-51910-6
On the planet that backdrops this excellent sequel to last year's Rider at the Gate, the native wildlife is dangerously telepathic, able to project its own emotions or to amplify human ones. Human settlements survive only in valleys protected by the
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Daw Books $21.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-88677-689-3
The human-alien tensions that marked Foreigner (1994) and Invader (1995) peak in this sophisticated conclusion to the trilogy. The atevi and the humans co-inhabiting the planet Mospheira are near the brink of interspecies war. The major hope for...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Warner Books $21.95 (437p) ISBN 978-0-446-51781-2
In this perceptive and carefully crafted coming-of-age novel, humans share a remote and arduous world with telepathic fauna who communicate their instincts and desires to receptive colonists. Chief among the beasts that seek out companionship with...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author HarperPrism $22 (568p) ISBN 978-0-06-109295-4
Despite a few brief, shining moments, Cherryh's (Foreigner) new fantasy novel (her latest SF novel is reviewed below) proves an overwrought concoction. After a moderately interesting foray involving Mauryl, the aging wizard who conjures a ``Shaping''
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Daw Books $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-88677-638-1
An interesting first-contact political thriller is buried in this sequel to Foreigner, but readers will have to work hard to pry it from the dull surroundings. Bren Cameron continues as paidhi, the interface between the human community and the...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Warner Books $19.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-446-51780-5
In a psychologically compelling coming-of-age novel, Cherryh (Downbelow Station; Cyteen) continues her tales of a human-dominated space attempting to find equilibrium in the aftermath of war. Tom Bowe-Hawkins, young crew member of the family ship...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Daw Books $20 (320p) ISBN 978-0-88677-590-2
Set on an alien world where the descendants of humans marooned in a long-ago starship accident live segregated from the indigenous atevi on a remote island, this polished and sophisticated tale from the popular author of Hestia addresses the...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Warner Books $21.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-446-51617-4
SF veteran Cherryh's view of the future is unrelentingly cynical, and her protagonists are often ordinary people caught between corrupt corporations and self-serving politicians. In this sequel to Heavy Time , the heroes (and antiheroes) manage a...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Daw Books $6.99 (415p) ISBN 978-0-88677-559-9
In the fifth entry in her chronicles of the Chanur clan, space-faring members of a catlike alien race called the hani, Cherryh includes more humor than previously while demonstrating a remarkable ability to imagine alien psychologies. (Sept.)
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Phantasia Press $18 (320p) ISBN 978-0-932096-42-5
A member of the peaceful, clannish, matriarchal hani race, merchant-ship captain Pyanfar Chanur would rather be left alone to earn her living. Circumstances, however, have drawn her into a vast, complicated power struggle, as the uneasy relations...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Eos $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-105055-8
The fourth volume in Cherryh's Fortress cycle finds Tristen--created by the wizard Mauryl to combat the power-crazed, undying spirit of the dark sorcerer Hasufin Heltain--sent back to Amefel as its duke, replacing the dishonored Orien Aswydd. Orien...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Daw Books $23.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-88677-836-1
In the fourth volume in her widely praised Foreigner series (Inheritor, etc.) Cherryh sends diplomat and translator Bren Cameron into space to conduct a tense three-sided negotiation among the Pilot's Guild on the recently returned human starship...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author HarperPrism $24 (406p) ISBN 978-0-06-105054-1
Tristen, a young man summoned and ""shaped"" into the world by the wizard Mauryl in Fortress in the Eye of Time (1995) takes up, in the third book of this high fantasy series, as duke of the Southern stronghold Amefel under his lord and friend, King
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . Eos $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-105260-6
In this well-done novel by the prolific, award-winning author of Precursor
and Fortress of Dragons, two women with superhuman powers wage psychic and genetic war for control of a civilization. The common people remember the original colonization of
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . DAW $15 (592p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0530-4
The long-awaited, intricate sequel to Cherryh’s Hugo-winning Cyteen
(1989) brings events full circle. Brilliant 18-year-old scientist Ariane Emory, a clone, resumes the work of her original: psychogenesis, the cloning of psychology and memory.
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . DAW $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-88677-911-5
One of the best long-running SF series in existence, Cherryh's Foreigner Universe books (Precursor,
etc.) tell the story of a small human colony abandoned on a planet inhabited by the atevi, an alien race whose humanoid anatomy disguises...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . DAW $23.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0086-6
A third intelligent species makes its appearance in this sixth superior installment in Cherryh's much praised Foreigner Universe series (Defender; Precursor; etc.). The starship Phoenix, manned by a human crew but with a significant contingent...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . DAW $23.95 (656p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0217-4
Sure to appeal to Cherryh enthusiasts as well as initiates, this omnibus volume gathers the stories from two out-of-print collections, Sunfall
(1981) and Visible Light
(1986), plus 16 additional tales. The majority showcase the author's talent
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . Eos $24.95 (405p) ISBN 978-0-380-97903-5
In Cherryh's suspenseful sequel to Hammerfall
(2001), Marak's World has been embargoed for a millennium due to the illicit nanotechnology it harbors, yet Marak Trin Tain himself, rendered nearly immortal by that technology, lives on. Marak...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . DAW $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0253-2
In this solid if slow-moving addition to Cherryh's much-praised Foreigner series (Invader
, etc.), Bren Cameron and his atevi allies finally return to their home world, where atevi natives and human colonists live in an uneasy truce. Their...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . DAW $25.95 (327p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0374-4
In volume eight of Cherryh's masterful Foreigner sequence (Destroyer
, etc.), Tabini, the deposed ruler of the atevi
home world, represents humanity's best hope of survival on this alien planet and the atevi
's own best chance of...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . Eos $24.95 (402p) ISBN 978-0-380-97904-2
Religious and ancient magical conflicts threaten the fragile peace of the divided kingdom of Ylesuin in Cherryh's fifth Fortress fantasy (after 2000's Fortress of Dragons
), an intense coming-of-age story. Aewyn, the 15-year-old heir to the...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . DAW $25.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0414-7
At the start of the stirring ninth entry in Cherryh's much praised Foreigner series (after 2006's Pretender
), the atevi ruler Tabini has thwarted an attempt to overthrow him, though the usurper, Murini, has not yet been captured. Things...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Del Rey Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-37943-6
Cherryh continues the complex psychological tale of magic and wizardry gone awry in ancient Russia that began in Rusalka and Chernevog . ( Nov. )
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C. J. Cherryh, Author . DAW $25.95 (370p) ISBN 978-0-7564-0570-0
Readers unfamiliar with Cherryh's Foreigner series (most recently 2007's Deliverer
) are likely to be somewhat at sea in this complex and sophisticated 10th installment, but those who persevere will be rewarded with a space opera where...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Phantasia Press $17 (230p) ISBN 978-0-932096-40-1
Although Cherryh is the author of many novels, the introduction to this collection of short fiction provides her with a rare opportunity to speak directly to the reader. What we get from this former history teacher is a lecture that equates her...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Del Rey Books $18.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-345-35953-7
A Rusalka--the spirit of a maiden drowned by accident or force--will return as a ghost to haunt the river and woods where she met her death. The locale for this fantasy by SF writer Cherryh ( Downbelow Station ) is pre-Christian Russia. Two young...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Del Rey Books $18.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-345-35954-4
In this strong sequel to Rusalka , Cherryh continues her fantasy series based on ancient Russian folklore. During the hoary time of the book's setting, wizards have power to influence events by wishing things to happen--but sometimes unlooked-for...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Del Rey Books $19 (280p) ISBN 978-0-345-36784-6
Cherryh continues the tale of magic and wizardry gone awry in ancient Russia that began in Rusalka and Chernevog . The protected childhood of young wizard Ilyana, the 15-year-old daughter of adventurer Pyetr Kochevikov and former rusalka (devouring...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author Del Rey Books $19 (331p) ISBN 978-0-345-37278-9
Cherryh's third book in a scant three months (after Chanur's Legacy and Hellburner) does not meet her usual high standards. When Karoly, a wizard of Maggiar, announces plans to consult with his wizard-sister about recent ominous events, the lord...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author, Brian M. Thomsen, Editor Warner Books $19.95 (330p) ISBN 978-0-446-51616-7
Sure-handed Cherryh returns to the award-winning setting of Rimrunners and Cyteen , taking readers to the frontier where independent asteroid miners Morris Bird and Ben Pollard are struggling against the increasing economic domination of the...
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C. J. Cherryh, Author, Michael Whelan, Illustrator Daw Books $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-88677-519-3
This is the fifth entry in Cherryh's ( Heavy Time ) chronicles of the Chanur clan, space-faring members of a cat-like alien race called the hani.not capitalized It picks up 10 years after the action of Chanur's Homecoming , and introduces an almost...
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