Sci-Fi series on my shelf
Discover the ultimate sci-fi series bookshelf featuring C. J. Cherryh's Chanur Saga, Elizabeth Moon's Heris Serrano, and more. Explore curated human-alien encounters, space operas, and classic fantasy fiction in this must-read collection.
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The Chanur Saga
by C. J. Cherryh
This omnibus contains the first three novels in C.J. Cherryh's Chanur series: Pride of Chanur, Chanur's Venture, and The Kif Strike Back. This classic adventure series features interstellar politics, a spacefaring fugitive, and first contact with a strange race known as "humans." No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company of humans―a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown―and he was a prisoner of his discoverers and captors―the sadistic, treacherous kif―until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur. Little did Tully know when he threw himself on the mercy of the crew of The Pride that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. This seemingly defenseless fugitive held information which could prove the ruin or glory of any species at Meetpoint Station, and whomever Tully allied with would stand to gain power and riches beyond imagining. For with Tully came the key to opening trade with a previously unknown sector of space -- a sector of space controlled by a race called "humans". And what began as a simple rescue attempt would soon blossom into a dangerous game of interstellar politics where today's ally could become tomorrow's executioner, and where methane breathers become volatile wild cards playing for stakes no oxy breather could even begin to understand....
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Chanur's Homecoming
by C. J. Cherryh
The epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war.
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Chanur's Legacy
by C. J. Cherryh
In this intrigue-and adventure-packed work, Cherryh takes readers back to Compact space, home territory of the advanced catlike race the hani, presenting the story of the next generation of hani and specifically of Hilfy, the new captain of the spaceship "Chanur's Legacy".
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McLendon's Syndrome
by Robert A. Frezza
Tired of life aboard the trading ship Rustam's Slipper, Ken MacKay finds things changing when Catarina, a mysterious, unsettlingly smart woman who demands a berth on Ken's ship, arrives. Original.
