A Short Review of Convergence, by C.J. Cherryh

Convergence by C.J. Cherryh

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I am a big C.J. Cherryh fan and a very big fan of this ongoing series, 18 books so far and counting. Given how this ends, I am confident there will be another trio of books, 19-21. This story, of First Contact, of humans surviving far, far from home after being stranded on an alien planet already inhabited, is not done

The story continues Bren Cameron, the paidhi, the interepreter between the humans on the island of Mospheira and the court of the most ajii, or atevi lord, Tabini, is being sent home to negotiate what will happen with the 5000 Reunioner humans trapped on Alpha Station. Cajeiri, the heir, is sent to his uncle in the country, for a vacation, but others have very different ideas. Complications ensue.

A very readable tale and a pleasure But what I want to note this time is that while Cherryh is continuing the adventures of Bren and his atevi companions and human friends, she is also writing a fictional history of two peoples, the atevi and these stranded years. 200 years have passes since the humans were stranded and survived the War of the Landing and begun the slow process of introducing atevi to human technology and science. Now, the world is a state of change, of rebirth, as some struggle to hold on to a past that can never be returned to, as others struggle to go forward into a strange future, yet one that they are shaping.

Here is that history.



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