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  2. strangerinastrangeland says

    Thanks a lot for the notification, PZ! I am one of her countless fans, and while I already have most of those books in the dead-wood version, I could not pass on such an offer to also get them on my reader. So sad that there won´t be any more great books coming from her, but I will re-read the ones existing until my last day.

    @Silentbob: I had no problem ordering & receiving the bundle, even being (luckily!) outside the US.

  3. birgerjohansson says

    C J Cherryh is usually good, but Downbelow Station was not her best.
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    As space opera go, wossname the series with a spaceship AI downloaded inot a single body fighting the empress Anaander Minai (who is spread across multiple bodies, ruling the Imperial Raadch) is surprisingly good.
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    Iain Banks left behind the ‘Culture’ series (much recommended) and Neal Asher is adding to his series set in the Polity, with constant fighting and sheming between different species and AI.

  4. says

    The Imperial Raadch series is not written by Cherryh, but by Ann Leckie. I agree, though, that 40,000 in Gehenna was a better book in Cherryh’s universe.

    We can begin squabbling over the ranking of her books…now.

  5. Jenora Feuer says

    I’ll admit my first exposure to Cherryh wasn’t the Chanur books, but the Morgaine books, Gate of Ivrel in particular (that being the first one). It even had a graphic novel version in the late 1980s.

    That said, I really should read more of the Chanur books, and this does seem like a good excuse.

  6. Akira MacKenzie says

    NO I DON’T HAVE A CAT GIRL BODY PILLOW!!!

    …

    Errr… Maybe we should just ignore that last comment.

  7. billseymour says

    I like Cherryh’s Foreigner series, but I’m not sure why.  All the novels are pretty much alike:  an aristocrat or a group of them behaves badly out of narrow self-interest and another aristocrat or group of them saves the day by acting in the interest of aristocracy more generally.  At the center is a kind of honorary aristocrat who’s a descendent of the survivors of an Earth ship that crashlanded on the planet.

    I also liked the Chanur novels although I haven’t read any of them in quite a while.  I don’t like the fantasy novels very much, but then I don’t like fantasy generally.

  8. Larry says

    So, having not read any of her books, I checked my library and they have a large selection but, I have no idea where to start other than a random choice. Is there a preferred series? For a given series, do the books need to be read in order of publication? I tend to be quick on quitting books that don’t almost immediately grab me unless I know that it gets better very soon so that first book should good from the outset through its end. Suggestions are appreciated.

  9. Rob Grigjanis says

    I stopped reading sci-fi years ago, but still enjoy the odd film or TV show. Started watching The Expanse last night. Bloody good. No alien cats, but it’s got Jared Harris. Love the language divergence, exhibited mostly by the Belters.

  10. fishy says

    It sort of makes me nostalgic for the bookstore in the mall, or better yet, the used paperback store down the street.

  12. knirirr says

    @Silentbob I strongly suspect that a VPN, such as the free Proton VPN, set for a US endpoint, will allow you to make a purchase and download the epubs.

  14. Akira MacKenzie says

    @9

    Great choice, Rob! When you are done with the TV series, I highly recommend the novels they are based upon.

  15. whheydt says

    Re: PZ Myers @ #12…
    They also play off general characteristics of (Earth) species characteristics in the social/political structure used by various sophonts. The “Pride of Chanur” can be read in a couple of interesting ways in addition to being the name of a spaceship.
    She also completely abandons any idea of smooth inter-species language translation, especially as regards a member of a species they locals don’t have a long history of being contact with.

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