The Pride Of Chanur

Author: C. J. Cherryh

Starts with Downbelow Station. The aliens are coming. The aliens are coming! Until you read Cherryh you haven't really read good aliens. She's got this peculiar gift for summoning aliens to life as distinct from humans - lots of aliens. This gives her series a unique flavor, once tasted, never forgotten. Cherryh is one of the most prolific science fiction writers. Her book Downbelow Station won the Hugo in 1982. This book is part of Cherryh's Alliance Union universe. She has 27 novels, a host of short stories and several other series all within this particular universe. Her novels and series in this universe are categorized as: space opera, militaristic and hard science fiction depending on which series you are reading at the moment. She explores life extension, human cloning, subliminal conditioning, advanced propulsion and species interactions giving insight into probable issues humans are likely to face when we encounter other sentient species. You know that movie-version space-station bar filled with aliens? Draw up your bar stool and get ready for a ruckus, a few dented skulls, tentacles and the ever-wonderful Hani (cats). You could easily swap Alliance-Union with Cherryh's Foreigner series, which is probably the best series about the intricacies of human-alien relations. The Alliance-Union series is more expansive with more books and a more developed overall world (hence it's a better 'series'), but for focused characters and characterization, Foreigner wins.

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The Pride Of Chanur

Author: C. J. Cherryh

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