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C. J. Cherryh is the slightly modified working name of author Caroline Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), the sister of artist David A.Cherry. She has written more than 50 science fiction and fantasy books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award winning "Cyteen". She lives in the state of Washington, USA.
Writing Style
Cherry often uses a style she calls "very tight limited third person". In this writing style, not only is the story told through the point of view of the current viewpoint character, but the only things that get narrated are what the viewpoint character notices or thinks about. So, for instance, if a starship captain arrives at a space station, the narration won't mention what the space station looks like or how it operates, even though these things might be of interest to the reader, because these are details that the captain is already well familiar with, so he doesn't notice them or think about them. This writing style is sometimes like directly reading the mind of the viewpoint character, in which cases it strongly resembles stream of consciousness.
Works
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The Alliance-Union Universe
The Company Wars
- Downbelow Station
- Heavy Time
- Hellburner
The Era of Rapprochement
- Serpent's Reach
- Forty Thousand in Gehenna
- Merchanter's Luck
- Rimrunners
- Tripoint
- Finity's End
- Cyteen
- also published in a 3-volume edition
The Chanur Novels
- The Pride of Chanur
- Chanur's Venture
- The Kif Strike Back
- Chanur's Homecoming
- Chanur's Legacy
The Mri Wars
- The Faded Sun: Kesrith
- The Faded Sun: Shon'Jir
- The Faded Sun: Kutath
- The Faded Sun Omnibus
Merovingen Nights (Mri Wars Period)
- Angel with the Sword
- Merovingen Nights shared world series, featuring "braided" stories by Cherryh and others
The Age of Exploration
- Cuckoo's Egg
- Voyager in Night
- Port Eternity
The Hanan Rebellion
- Brothers of Earth
- Hunter of Worlds
The Morgaine Cycle
- Gate of Ivrel
- Well of Shiuan
- Fires of Azeroth
- (Above three collected as The Morgaine Trilogy (US) or The Book of Morgaine (UK))
- Exile's Gate
The Foreigner Universe
Miscellaneous science-fiction
- Port Eternity
- Hestia
- Wave Without a Shore
Fantasy Works
- The Paladin
- Rusalka
- Chernevog
- Yvgenie
- Faery in Shadow
- The Goblin Mirror
- Legions of Hell
The Fortress Series
- Fortress in the Eye of Time
- Fortress of Eagles
- Fortress of Owls
- Fortress of Dragons
Ealdwood
- The Dreamstone
- The Tree of Swords and Jewels
- also published as an omnibus
External links
- http://www.cherryh.com/, the author's official site
- Meetpoint, a fan site