The story of how Chimele of The Iduve seeks vengeance on Tejef for violating ancient rituals and codes of their race. The author is a winner of the Hugo award and the John W. Campbell award and previous titles include "Exile's Gate" and "Serpent's Reach".
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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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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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Hunter of Worlds scores a Hit,
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This review is from: Hunter of Worlds (Alliance-Union Universe) (Paperback)
CJ Cherryh is one of the more prolific Science Fiction/ Fantasy writers of this decade. As her later books appear in print, earlier works get pushed to the back of shelf, are no longer sold and subsequently go out of print.This is a shame when one of the works is Hunter of Worlds. Set in a distant part of the galaxy, it is a story which fascinates due to the interplay of the various races which populate that far off region. As a whole, Hunter of Worlds shows off one of Ms. Cherryh's greatest talents; the ability to create thoroughly believable, fascinating alien cultures, with their morals, viewpoints, religions and especially in the case of this book, their own languages. In so doing, Cherryh avoids creating facile morality tales whereby she uses the alien cultures as Aesop used his fables, to teach us; rather, after permitting us to enter into the alien world view we see ourselves as the aliens see us, with all our strengths and weaknesses. I read Hunter of Worlds early on in my reading of Cherryh's works, and it remains one of the bench marks whereby I judge other works by other authors. As a result of this novel and her "Faded Sun" series, Cherryh is the ONLY Science Fiction author that I will buy off the rack, without a reference. Find a copy of this book, read it and enjoy. Sorry. You can't have mine
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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First contact from other perspective,
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This review is from: Hunter of Worlds (Alliance-Union Universe) (Paperback)
I have read this book first time some more than year ago ( I borrowed it in library, english is not my native language)I found universe where story happens more intresting than plot itself. In short: idvue, kaila and amaut coexist together (in same starcluster ), with stable relations for at least last 7000 years, when they contact (in unpeaceful way) the aliens (humans), who are in different aspects quite alike to each of three races. Idvue, kaila and humans, except for colors, even look very similar (enough to have sex on occasion). Kaila form society which look very alike human, but are almost completly unagresive, and focus themsleves on industry and wealth. Amaut tend to hide their litle of agresivenes, their society is basing on family and focus themseves mainly on mining, farming and settling. Both of these two races do not show much regard for personal freedom. Idvue are agresive (every one tries to improve their position in the "pack" all the time, differen "packs" are very competitive) and very honor bound, high tech and take freedom in very direct way: whole population packed on huge ships and travels around starcluster. Each of these ships is independent and houses its own clan (pack). Idvue are also able of direct exchage of thoughts, are very unemotinal and their language is structured very diferently. About plot: Chimele, who has recently came to head of one of most influntal of idvue clans, wants to get the man of her dreams, who has been exiled and escaped to human space. There is also the interference of rival clans, which reduced size of human fleet, which prevented, till then, amaut to oversettle...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Aiela Lyailleue is abducted by the dreaded iduve, enslaved, and mentally joined with two strangers: Isande, a beautiful woman who doesn't understand his rebellion, and Daniel Fitzhugh, an abused and terrified human. And that's just the beginning of his problems.This is possibly my favorite Cherryh book (which means it's one of my favorite books of all time). It was one of the first ones she wrote, but it already displays her trademark strengths. She creates not one but three distinct alien races here, each with its own language, values, and culture. (If you find the alien languages difficult to follow, there's a glossary in back.) It has everything I've come to expect from a Cherryh novel: the immersion in an alien culture, the Byzantine politics, strong female characters, and most of all the charismatic characters and intense relationships. Probably if she had written this story later in her career, it would be a multi-volume series, like Chanur or Foreigner. But there's something to be said for brevity. Hunter of Worlds is in many ways more accessible than her later works. It's pared to the essentials - concentrated Cherryh. Though the book deals with many of the same themes Cherryh dealt with in later works, I found this one more daring than her usual "getting to know you" books about aliens. When you get right down to it, the iduve are slavers. That's about as unsympathetic as you can get. It's theoretically possible for a murderer to have a worthy motivation, but how can you possibly justify enslaving other intelligent, sentient beings? Yet somehow, she manages to show the iduve as merely alien, not evil. Aiela, a member of the kalliran race, is an appealing character who has interesting relationships with several characters in the book. But the most compelling is his bond with Daniel. They are forcibly mindlinked by the iduve - so mentally entwined that one of them can be disciplined by torturing the other. Daniel, being rather more fractious than any kallia would be, proves quite a trial for poor Aiela. Also interesting is his relationship with Chimele, the ruler of the iduve. While kallia evolved from herd-like prey animals, iduve evolved from predators. Chimele is rather cat-like. Not in looks, but in personality. I've heard that she was inspired by C'Mell, from Cordwainer Smith's "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell." Only instead of being a lowly girly-girl, she's the leader of a natural master race! Hunter of Worlds is out of print as a standalone, but used copies are readily available. Also, it's half of an omnibus called At The Edge Of Space.
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