When those aliens entities called "humans" sent their first exploration ship into Compact space, the traditional power alliances of the seven Compact races were catastrophically disrupted. And, giving shelter to Tully, the only surviving human, Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew were pitched into the center of a galactic maelstrom, becoming key players in a power game which could cause an intersteller war, or bring the last hope for peace between eight barely compatible alien races.
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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 among several spacegoing species are enflamed by the arrival of the first humans. Armed skirmishes are rare, but hostage-taking, torture and betrayal become standard. In this amalgam of strains from current international politics (the Mideast particularly), each race harbors several factions fighting to enact their own agendas and willing to deal with their ostensible enemies to come out on top. Thus, the ambitious kif Sikkukut releases his hostages to Chanur only after she agrees to help him seize Meetpoint station. As in the previous three titles in Cherryh's series, the interesting premise of action played out against a background of volatile culture clashes devolves into a drawn-out string of inconclusive conflicts. Paperback rights to DAW.
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Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Furiously paced action...intricate, interesting, precarious alien politics. -- Publishers Weekly
This book and the rest of the Chanur series...comprise one of the best science fiction tales ever. Don't miss it. -- Minneapolis Star and Tribune --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This book and the rest of the Chanur series...comprise one of the best science fiction tales ever. Don't miss it. -- Minneapolis Star and Tribune --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I've written sf and fantasy for publication since 1975...but I've written a lot longer than that. I have a background in Mediterranean archaeology, Latin, Greek, that sort of thing; my hobbies are travel, photography, planetary geology, physics, pond-building for koi...I run a marine tank, can plumb most anything, and I figure-skate.
I believe in the future: I'm an optimist for good reason---I've studied a lot of history, in which, yes, there is climate change, and our species has been through it. We've never faced it fully armed with what we now know, and if we play our cards right, we'll use it as a technological springboard and carry on in very interesting ways.
I also believe a writer owes a reader a book that has more than general despair to spread about: I write about clever, determined people who don't put up with situations, not for long, anyway: people who find solutions inspire me.
My personal websites and blog: http://www.cherryh.com
http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore
http://www.closed-circle.net
I believe in the future: I'm an optimist for good reason---I've studied a lot of history, in which, yes, there is climate change, and our species has been through it. We've never faced it fully armed with what we now know, and if we play our cards right, we'll use it as a technological springboard and carry on in very interesting ways.
I also believe a writer owes a reader a book that has more than general despair to spread about: I write about clever, determined people who don't put up with situations, not for long, anyway: people who find solutions inspire me.
My personal websites and blog: http://www.cherryh.com
http://www.cherryh.com/WaveWithoutAShore
http://www.closed-circle.net
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Fourth Book in Series & End of Middle Trilogy,
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This review is from: Chanur's Homecoming (Paperback)
This is the fourth book in the (currently) five book Chanur series. It's also the end of the trilogy that's left incomplete in the supposed "omnibus edition" "The Chanur Saga." As usual for Cherryh, this is an excellently written book that reaches down into your gut and shakes you around. As I'm re-reading these books in quick order, I found this book to be a better read than the previous two in the trilogy. Essentially, it's written at a more sustainable emotional pitch. The first two books in the trilogy just never let up. From the minute you pick them up to the minute they (don't) end, everything goes wrong and everyone's either evil, an enemy, or a fool (or some combination of the three). This book gives you a bit of a break. There are actually other people in it besides the protagonists who are good, competent, and/or an ally. The pacing is also more reasonable. You're not on the edge of your seat on every page. The pitch actually increases fairly smoothly throughout the book. An excellent end to the middle trilogy of the Chanur series.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent!,
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This review is from: Chanur's Homecoming (Paperback)
Simply excellent!The fourth book in the Chanur saga wrapped up the preceding trilogy wonderfully. An excellent read, the book keeps the reader in a state of high stress and energy throughout as the space-fairing, wounded and physically exhausted leonine crew of `The Pride of Chanur' struggle desperately to save themselves, their species, and all space-traveling races from war on a scope one recently tortured and terrified character describes as: "New kind thing. Not with rule. ... This new kind word. ... War, Pyanfar, all devils in hell got no word this thing I see." This is not a stand-alone book. To receive the full impact you have to read the series in order. There are politics involves, species defined words and concepts; the technologies behind starship travels, warped time and the fragile Compact that holds all together. Even beyond the storyline I think the best thing about the Chanur saga and other of C. J. Cherryh's novels is the underlining theme that just because something/someone thinks and reasons other than yourself and your ways, that does not make them evil or wrong.
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Finally back in print,
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The Chanur series is made up of 5 books. A prologue novel ("The Pride of Chanur"), a 3-part series ("Chanur's Venture", "The Kif Strike Back" and "Chanur's Homecoming"), and an epilogue novel ("Chanur's Legacy").The first 3 books are collected in "The Chanur Saga" omnibus volume -- an odd collection since the concluding volume of the central trilogy is HERE, and not in the badly selected "Saga". Note that this book does NOT stand on it's own. You need to start with "The Chanur Saga"
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