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Posted 2017-03-16 4:52 AM (#15464 - in reply to #15432)
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JohnBem - 2017-03-08 7:09 PM

I just finished Forty Thousand in Gehenna by CJ Cherryh. This is only the second book of hers that I've read, the first being The Dreaming Tree. Based on these two books alone, I'm ready to conclude that Cherryh is an amazing talent. Whereas Tree is magnificent, magical, fantasy fare, Gehenna is thought-provoking sociological colonization first-contact sci-fi. It takes, I would think, great skill and imagination to write these two very different types of thoroughly entertaining books. Later on in the challenge I'll be reading the four books in Cherryh's Morgaine saga. I look forward to it.


Forty Thousand in Gehenna is on my list for this year too! I was going to read The Tree of Swords and Jewels, but I see that I need to read The Dreaming Tree before it will make a lot of sense, so I'm searching for a copy of that book. I share your opinion of Cherryh's talent, which is why I wanted to delve so deeply into her work this year. So far by her I have read Brothers of Earth and Voyager in Night, and between the two I just had to read more! Looking forward to Forty Thousand even more now . . .

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