The Kif Strike Back (Hardcover)

by C. J. Cherryh (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"Compellingly written, with distinctive characters and well-realized races and cultures." -Fantasy Review "A rousing good tale and...the most believable alien characters to come down the SF pike in a long time. Highly recommended." -Kliatt --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Description
When the kif seize Hilfy and Tully, Pyanfar and her shipmates enter into a simple rescue attempt that soon becomes a deadly game of interstellar politics. Reissue. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Phantasia Press; Book Club (BCE/BOMC) edition (April 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0932096352
• ISBN-13: 978-0932096357
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,919,159 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

• This is item 3 in The Compact Space Series.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read..., March 18, 1999

By A Customer

If you are an avid Sci-Fi reader and especially look forward to aliens and adventure, then you need this book, and all of the other Chanur books.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I *really* don't want this high-powered intellectual adventure to end . . ., January 19, 2007

By	Michael K. Smith (Gonzales, Louisiana) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Kif Strike Back (Paperback)

Despite the Star Wars-like title, this is the third in the four-volume Chanur saga and it's basically more of the same, picking up immediately where _Chanur's Venture_ ended -- or stopped. (The division between the two is pretty artificial and may have been ordered by the publisher for budgetary reasons.) Again, Pyanfar Chanur and her intensely loyal crew, all of them her cousins, are trying desperately to survive in the midst of a far-ranging political struggle among half a dozen disparate races over vast distances. Pyanfar and her trading ship got sucked into the plans of her mahendo-sat allies (except maybe they're not such good allies after all) and now she finds herself hooked up with a very ambitious kif -- who, although unpredictable and extremely dangerous, is almost the only one who hasn't played her false. Even Tully, the semi-derelict human whom she rescuedin the first book, an action that largely set off this four-volume saga, seems to have withheld vital information regarding humanity's pending incursion into the volume of space governed by the Compact. Cherryh continues to explicate alien society and psychology without stinting on an action-filled plot. In fact, the last section, with two dockside battle scenes developing pell mell and in parallel and described in alternating chunks, will have you crouched on the edge of your chair. Again, the end of the book is merely a pause; you will want to have the concluding volume handy so you can segue to it immediately.

4.0 out of 5 stars Another great book in the Chanur series!, October 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Kif Strike Back (Alliance-Union Universe) (Paperback)

If you like space, aliens, and politics, this struggle will appeal to you. Pyanfar again attempts to protect her human friend and gets her family/crew spiraled into another political hurricane which could cost her family everything.