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| Original Title: | The Pride of Chanur |
| ISBN: | 0886772923 (ISBN13: 9780886772925) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Chanur #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1983) |
C.J. Cherryh
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.93 | 6186 Users | 271 Reviews
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No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur.
Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of The Pride and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. For the information this fugitive held could be the ruin or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station.
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| Title | : | The Pride of Chanur (Chanur #1) |
| Author | : | C.J. Cherryh |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | January 5th 1982 by DAW (first published January 1st 1981) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 6186 Users | 271 ReviewsRate Regarding Books The Pride of Chanur (Chanur #1)
The best ever human as alien book. Ms. Cherryh is the master of making me believe a human is the alien. Love the series but this one is comfort food for me and I reread it all the time. I also recommend it to readers at the bookstore where I work as the best introduction to Ms. Cherryh's work.This is a reread for me, but I first read this series over ten years ago. I've knocked a star off my earlier review, mainly because I'm a little bit more critical as a reader now. It's still a great immersive read.Pyanfar Chanur is the captain of The Pride of Chanur, an interstellar trading ship of the hani, a leonine species. While at Meetpoint station a strange creature attempts to board The Pride, clearly fleeing from kif, a sinister species also docked at Meetpoint. Pyanfar's snap decision
The Pride of Chanur is the introduction to the fascinating Compact, a part of the Alliance-Union universe. The Compact is a trade agreement and region of space occupied by seven of the most unique and compelling alien species in writing. The story is a somewhat shallow space opera from the perspective of a space lion, but it is serviceable and establishes this fantastic setting. As I said, the plot is pretty basic. The good guys save a prisoner from the bad guys, and desperately try to outrun
As written in other reviews, Cherryh tends to dump the reader into a situation at which point it's sink or swim. The downside to this is that it may not be to the taste of everyone but, if one sticks with the story, the reader is rewarded with a tale rich in imagery, vision, and plot. Her works all share this similar vein and The Pride of Chanur is no exception.We are taken on a journey of first-contact, though not from the human perspective. Instead of glossing over the language and familiarity
3.5*Up until now, my only experience with Cherryh was through her excellent Foreigner series. This novel felt rather different, although at the base of it, politics, diplomacy, economics and linguistics are still very much at the fore. However their treatment is changed.The crew of the space freighter Pride of Chanur find a stowaway on their ship, a weird creature seeking refuge from the aggressive Kif, who captured and tortured him in order to get valuable information. Once more, the human is
3.5 stars.This is a much better recording and I was able to understand a lot more of the world-building. Still a bit confused about the customs of the Chanur home world. Will be interesting to see what happens to Tully next.
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