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C.J. Cherryh

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in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States

Website

http://www.cherryh.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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June 2009

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Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. She is the author of more than forty novels. 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 began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps. 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 has written s ...more

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Have a very happy holiday season!

Jane and I celebrate Christmas, and while this has been a rough year for Jane, there is brightness too. We have made new friends and we are getting the house in order.

And a Christmas note on the kitty front: as you know, Jane and I have sis-Lynn’s elderly snowshoe Siamese we have been trying to integrate into our household, with the Bengal and the Scottish Fold, aka Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley (thei

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	Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 15,254 ratings — published 1981 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cyteen (Cyteen, #1-3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,084 ratings — published 1988 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foreigner (Foreigner, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 10,052 ratings — published 1994 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pride of Chanur (Chanur, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 7,006 ratings — published 1981 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faded Sun Trilogy (The Faded Sun, #1-3) 4.13 avg rating — 5,252 ratings — published 1978 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invader (Foreigner, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 4,861 ratings — published 1996 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inheritor (Foreigner, #3) 4.20 avg rating — 4,278 ratings — published 1996 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Precursor (Foreigner, #4) 4.24 avg rating — 3,660 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fortress in the Eye of Time (Fortress, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 3,959 ratings — published 1995 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Explorer (Foreigner, #6) 4.31 avg rating — 3,332 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Foreigner (22 books)
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Alliance-Union Universe (18 books)
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3.95 avg rating — 48,250 ratings

The Company Wars (7 books)
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3.93 avg rating — 26,825 ratings

Chanur (5 books)
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Cyteen (4 books)
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“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

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“It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.”
― C. J. Cherryh

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“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles

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Polls

This poll decides which series which series will be our summer "Mini-Series" read. For more information see the "Series Read Info" thread, message 14.

The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

34 votes, 35.1%

The Faded Sun by C.J. Cherryh

33 votes, 34.0%

Gentlemen Bastards by Scott Lynch

30 votes, 30.9%

97 total votes

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