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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: (Meetpoint) Brothers of Earth by C J Cherryh
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:59:36 -0800
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On 10 Jan 2025 15:03:17 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:

>On 2025-01-07, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>> On 7 Jan 2025 14:12:27 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Brothers of Earth  (Hanan Rebellion, volume 1) by C J Cherryh=20
>>>
>>>Castaway Kurt Morgan will live the rest of his life among the humanoid=
=20
>>>nemet. The rest of Morgan's life might not be long. Nemet know humans=20
>>>as would-be conquerors and brutes. Why trust Morgan?=20
>>>
>>>https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-the-rains-came-tumbling-down
>>
>> Although /some/ of her series make sense and might even be
>> intentionally set in the same future, I suspect that others are the
>> result of the publisher's wanting every book to be in a Series.
>>
>> I don't recall /ever/ believing that /Brothers of Earth/ and /Hunter
>> of Worlds/ had anything in common except the author.
>>
>> A lot of mine were SFBC editions, some quite early. Indeed, my first
>> CJ Cherryh was a genuine series: The Faded Sun. After that, anything
>> she wrote was a mandatory purchase/read.
>>
>> Being this tight with SFBC may or may not have affected availability.
>
>I agree, I never saw any relationship between her first two novels and
>I don't think she did either at the time.  I met Cherryh at the only
>SF convention I ever attended, just after _Hunter of Worlds_ was
>published.  She talked about her upcoming series and a common
>technological background that she wanted to work with, but not that
>everything was the same universe.
>
>Cherryh is probably my favorite author, with many more of her books on
>my Favorite bookcase than any other author (though neither of the
>first two is there). I think I have all of her books except her
>translations.  Even with that background, though, I wonder how James
>is going to get through this project.  I really don't see that the 22
>books of the _Foreigner_ series is worth the effort of
>reading/rereading and writing a review for each book.  A
>bit of a waste of James' talents. The series as a whole may be worth
>several reviews, but the theme doesn't change throughout, just
>incremental developments.  Still, James is managing to review Japanese
>manga with much the same problem, so perhaps...

The _Foreigner_ series is, basically, a soap opera. There is no
conclusion possible (except to just stop). Well, short of having the
Humans show up and vaporize the planet, anyway.

But even without them, there are a /lot/ of novels. An interesting
idea might be to trace the concept of the Azi from, say, /Serpent's
Reach/ to /Regenesis/. There are quite a few books, listed in=20
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azi_(clone)]. This page exhibits a lot
of doubt as to whether or not it should exist, but just ignore that
and keep scrolling down.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"