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Author : C. J. Cherryh
Release : 1984
Genre : English fiction
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Book Rating : 707/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Merchanter's Luck by : C. J. Cherryh
Download or read book Merchanter's Luck written by C. J. Cherryh. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. J. Cherryh
Release : 2008-12-02
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 271/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Downbelow Station by : C. J. Cherryh
Download or read book Downbelow Station written by C. J. Cherryh. This book was released on 2008-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hugo Award-winning classic sci-fi novel about interstellar war. The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations. Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe. But Pell was just the first living planet. Then came Cyteen, and later others, and a new and frighteningly different society grew in the farther reaches of space. The importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward. But the powerful Earth Fleet was sitll a presence in the Beyond, and Pell Station was to become the last stronghold in a titanic struggle between the vast, dynamic forces of the rebel Union and those who defended Earth's last, desperate grasp for the stars.
Author : Patricia Bray
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 014/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Devlin's Luck by : Patricia Bray
Download or read book Devlin's Luck written by Patricia Bray. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate man in a dying kingdom is awarded the most coveted—and most deadly—choice of all The once mighty kingdom of Jorsk is in decline, its borders beset by enemies, both worldly and otherworldly. The king has retreated to the capital, abandoning the far-flung provinces. The only hope of the people lies in their Chosen One, blessed by the gods as defender of the realm. But of late every Chosen One has died, targeted by the harshest of the enemy attacks. Only the most desperate of men now seek that post. Devlin Stonehand is a desperate man. Overwhelmed by grief at the death of his family, he has lost the will to live. But he has vowed to provide for his brother’s widow and children, and the post of the Chosen One carries with it a substantial reward. For Devlin, a farmer and metalsmith, it is the answer to his prayers—prayers that include a yearning for the oblivion of death. After he has won the post, though, Devlin discovers that sometimes the hardest goal to achieve is that which had once seemed the simplest. For unlike the other Chosen Ones, he persists in surviving. Are the gods just tormenting him further, or does he have a greater destiny than he imagined? Can a man who courts death ever truly come to embrace life?
Author : C. J. Cherryh
Release : 2000-12-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 618/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Alternate Realities by : C. J. Cherryh
Download or read book Alternate Realities written by C. J. Cherryh. This book was released on 2000-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port Eternity Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette and Vivien, and they were made people, clone servants who worked aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea of their origins, from those old storytapes of romance, chivalry, heroism and betrayal, until a ripple in the space-time continuum sucked The Maid and her crew into a no-man’s land from which there could be no return, and they were left alone to face a crisis which their ancient prototypes were never designed to master… Wave Without a Shore Freedom was an isolated planet, off the main spaceways and rarely visited by commercial spacers. It wasn’t that Freedom was inhospitable, the problem was that outsiders—tourists and traders—claimed that the streets were crowded with mysterious blue-robed aliens. Native-born humans, however, denied that these aliens existed—until a planetary crisis forced a confrontation between the question of reality and the reality of the question… Voyager in the Night Rafe Murray, his sister Jillian, and Jillian’s husband Paul Gaines, like many other out-of-luck spacers, had come to newly built Endeavor Station to find their future. Their tiny ship, Lindy, had been salvaged from the junk heap, and fitted to mine ore from the mineral-rich rings which circled Endeavor. But their future proved to be far stranger than any of them imagined, when a “collision” with a huge alien vessel provided them with the oddest first contact experience possible!
Author : C. J. Cherryh
Release : 1984
Genre : Fantasy fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 522/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Forty Thousand in Gehenna by : C. J. Cherryh
Download or read book Forty Thousand in Gehenna written by C. J. Cherryh. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 40,000 colonists on Gehenna are abandoned for political reasons. The descendants become partners with the planet's native intelligence--the lizard like, burrowing Calibans.
