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Posted 2017-01-08 2:22 PM (#15008 - in reply to #15006)
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Scott Laz - 2017-01-08 11:21 AM

There are a few Cherryh aficionados around (and she does have a pretty big "fan base" that doesn't seem to overlap as much as it used to with general SF fandom), but I think there are a couple of reasons she's somewhat neglected these days, despite having been an active writer in the field for four decades. She's very prolific (more than 70 books) and most of her work is series-based, so it might seem daunting to figure out where to start reading. The connections between the Union-Alliance novels are somewhat complicated, but for the most part they are all standalone in the sense that each one is a self-contained story with it's own setting and characters, so it doesn't matter which is read first (though there are a few exceptions to that rule). And, her main project for the second half of her career is the Foreigner series, which is the antithesis of the Union-Alliance books in that it's a long ongoing series that should really be read sequentially. With book 18 (!) coming out this year, it's not likely that too many people will be picking up the latest Cherryh novel if they're not already on board with that one. And I have talked with a few people who are put off by her style. With the exception of much of the '90s fantasy, I've read her books as they came out, starting with Brothers of Earth in 1976. A reread project has long been in the back of my mind, as most of her books have faded in memory...


Brothers of Earth was one of the ones I read. Style; well, can't do anything about style preferences. And I get there "there's too many books to even get started" thing; I've been deterred by a few writers for that reason (Robert Jordan, Modesitt, etc. - though I've inherited more than a few Modesitt books so I expect those will be on the list this year or next!)

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