Too much so for Cherryh! The Phoenix captains recall both their paidhi and the Mospheiran government ask for a delegation to be sent to the only partially restored space station. The explosive political situation between atevi and Mospheirans has calmed down, even to the point to allow Bren’s family to visit him on the mainland. Test flights have been executed and the first proper flight to the space station is about to take place.

The narrative picks up three years after the events of the previous book, with the building of the shuttle nearing completion. :) I can't wait to sink my teeth into the next book!įourth book in Foreigner series - 1st of second trilogy One might say it's the start of the second trilogy. It's the captains in the spaceship that are the real aliens!Ĭonflict, intrigue, mutiny, and a certain Dowager make this fourth book a real delight to read. At least the Atevi are very logical and practical even if they think that liking someone is on par with a preference for salad. Like a holiday where all the in-laws are fighting and sending coded messages across the small and cramped house, where both tradition and the cold vacuum of space keeps everyone cramped and anxious as the great uncles square off against each other.Īnd in the meantime, Assassin's Guilds and being steeped in truly alien emotions feel like a welcome surcease of conflict. It's amazing how hopping into space after having such a thorough grounding in Atevi society can feel like coming home. She works constantly, researches mostly on the internet, and has books stacked up and waiting to be written. A loom is gathering dust and needs rethreading, a wooden ship model awaits construction, and the cats demand their own time much more urgently. Her studies include planetary geology, weather systems, and natural and man-made catastrophes, civilizations, and cosmology…in fact, there's very little that doesn't interest her. She has written science fiction since she was ten, spent ten years of her life teaching Latin and Ancient History on the high school level, before retiring to full time writing, and now does not have enough hours in the day to pursue all her interests. She sketches, occasionally, cooks fairly well, and hates house work she loves the outdoors, animals wild and tame, is a hobbyist geologist, adores dinosaurs, and has academic specialties in Roman constitutional law and bronze age Greek ethnography. She began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball, and, a late passion, figure skating: she intends to compete in the adult USFSA track.

She is the author of more than forty novels. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J.

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