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Forty Thousand in Gehenna (Unionside, #1)

C.J. Cherryh

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Mar 15, 2009 Mike rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: scifi, xcharity-2012

Wow, this lady can write! The problem is what to classify this as? Psychological feudal scifi? All her books have intricate, well-developed and totally strange culture clash. This is no different. A colony is established on a planet, thought to be devoid of intelligent life. A few hundred humans and 40K+ clones start the colony which quickly reverts to agrarian status when promised support doesn't show due to the war. From there the story leaps years at a time out to 300 years from first landing ...more

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Nov 19, 2013 Jamie Collins rated it it was ok

Shelves: scifi-colony, science-fiction

This story is part of Cherryh’s Alliance-Union universe, and the situation on Gehenna was mentioned in her novel Cyteen, which I read recently (and liked much better than this one).

During the war with the Alliance, the Union secretly dumps 40,000 colonists on the planet Gehenna, one of the few habitable planets yet discovered. The vast majority of the 40,000 are “azi” - clones specially conditioned for obedience and dedication to a specific goal. For political reasons the colony is abandoned, a ...more

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