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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: (Meetpoint) Brothers of Earth by C J Cherryh
Date: 10 Jan 2025 15:03:17 GMT
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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 
>>
>>Castaway Kurt Morgan will live the rest of his life among the humanoid 
>>nemet. The rest of Morgan's life might not be long. Nemet know humans 
>>as would-be conquerors and brutes. Why trust Morgan? 
>>
>>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...

Chris