c j cherryh

Both good SF Authors.

Why does everyone bash her style of prose? Why don't we discuss the psychological effects of the human element in each story. She reaches a depth of understanding human psychology in her alien building finesse that NO other author has ever achieved. Period. Nothing in her universes is over...

Quite by accident I stumbled upon the following critique of C.J. Cherryh's Morgaine Cycle. As this is one of my favourite reads ever (right, you couldn't tell by looking at my nom de guerre), I was astounded how someone could have perceived everything so contrary to my own perception. Let us...

I've started reading this - only a few chapters in to The Pride of Chanur, so no spoilers please - and as there isn't a thread on this series, while there is for Morgaine and The Faded Sun, I figured it wouldn't hurt to give it its own thread. I'm so far loving this work, and its the most...

C.J. Cherryh Named SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master I actually thought to myself, "All right!" and got a happy charge when I came across the notice at Locus. This, SFWA or not, is the last remaining award that still has meaning to me and, while there are still more senior authors yet to get it...

Regenesis C.J. Cherryh Daw, Jan 2009, $25.95 ISBN 9780756405304 In the research city of Reseune, eighteen year old scientist Ariane “Ari” Emory is a clone of a late brilliant warped person whose work on psychogenesis, the cloning of psychology and memory, was ingenious; the evidence being Ari...

Conspirator C.J. Cherryh Daw, Apr 28 2009, $25.95 ISBN: 9780756405700 The paidhi-aiji interpreter between the native Atevi and the stranded humans, Bren Cameron remains worried though the Atevi civil war has ended at least for now and his side victorious (see DELIVERER). He fears human...

Deceiver C.J. Cherryh Daw, May 2010, $25.95 ISBN: 9780756406011 The atevi civil war is over; at least the overt hostilities that is. The Western Association ruler Tabini-aiji has won a shaky victory, but the prime enemy plotter still remains free; as Machigi chieftain of Taisigi clan has...

Betrayer C.J. Cherryh Daw, Apr 5 2011, $25.95 ISBN: 9780756406547 Bren Cameron is the paidhi-aiji negotiator with the Atevi. He and the ruler of all of the ai-shidi’tat states, Tabini-aiji, have become close friends especially during the recent civil war in which the human’s skills at solving...

Protector C.J. Cherryh Daw, April 2 2013, $24.95 ISBN: 9780756407988 The heir to the Atevi leader of the Western Association Tabiniaiji, eight years old Cajerji celebrates his birthday with his people and select human friends he made. Meanwhile the Assassins’ Guild, responsible for security, is...

Peacemaker C. J. Cherryh DAW, Apr 1 2014, $25.95 ISBN: 9780756408831 The heir to the Atevi leader of the Western Association Tabiniaiji, Cajerji celebrates his ninth birthday with his people and select human friends he made. At the same time a deep schism inside the Assassins’ Guild explodes...

After Andre Norton's Witch World books, these were perhaps my first introduction to Science Fantasy. The complexity of the story, the politics, the characterization is, of course, on a much higher level. I think it was the emotional intensity of these books that hooked me, the fact that the...

Inspired by a question Connavar had about Cherryh's works, here's a lengthy annotated list (initially taken from ISFDB but, obviously, much fiddled with - there are many lists which arrange her books in various ways but most of them seem to follow the marketing rather than actual contents) ...

anyone read these? i loved them in the 1990s, and am considering getting the updated ebook versions (she apparently did extensive new edits a few years ago). i remember thinking the pre-christian russia setting was really interesting... ...are those memories correct or incorrect?

This is driving me batty: does anyone know if Cherryh's dealt with Fletcher/Francesca Neihart before and, if so, which book? I'm currently (finally) reading Finity's End and their backstory seems really familiar but I can't place it. Can't find it in my books or get any sensible search results...

I have earlier reviewed a couple of Cherryh's books and during the discussion of one of them was advised to read her Chanur series, so I have made a start with the first of them, The Pride of Chanur. One of her earlier works (it was first published in 1981), it is short and fast-paced. This...

This 1984 book by Cherryh is uncharacteristic of most of her other work (at least, that with which I am familiar – I have by no means consumed all of her oeuvre). Three young prospectors are travelling in their makeshift spacecraft through a distant solar system when the fall into the path of a...

Okay.. somebody's probably asked this before, but I already did a search and didn't find the exact same question put forward. My question is; why isn't there an author thread/section specifically for CJ Cherryh? I think she more than deserves it (and I could argue she deserves it more than...

A lost colony ship, a desperate landfall on an unknown planet, and an intelligent native humanoid race with very different mental processes. These are the key elements of Cherryh's 1994 novel, the start of a series running to nine volumes so far (with more to come). I read a lot of Cherryh's...

It seems to me that one of Cherryh's great themes revolves around the question: What does it mean to be human? She does this by contrasting human and alien societies (in her SF), by contrasting characters who are human with those who merely look human but are quite obviously not (in her Fantasy...