Hestia [Large Print] [Hardcover]

C. J. Cherryh (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 247 pages
• Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company (September 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0783891539
• ISBN-13: 978-0783891538
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,474,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A dress rehearsal for her later successes, June 15, 2001

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bookworm "Lisa" (Upstate New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hestia (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a very early Cherryh novel about colonists on an alien world and their interactions with the catlike natives, centering on a young engineer sent to solve the colonists' problems, and his relationship with the young native cat-woman in scanty clothing on the cover. In this book you can see the beginnings of many of Cherryh's recurring themes, but the worldbuilding and character psychology in this novel lack the depth seen in other early works such as Gate of Ivrel, Faded Sun, and the Chanur novels. All in all I would only recommend this book if (like me) you absolutely have to read everything Cherryh has written.