WRITER

C. J. Cherryh

1942 - Today

C. J. Cherryh

Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology. Cherryh (pronounced "Cherry") appended a silent "h" to her real name because her first editor, Donald A. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. J. Cherryh has received more than 495,440 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. C. J. Cherryh is the 4,517th most popular writer (down from 3,764th in 2019), the 6,070th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,041st in 2019) and the 484th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

The Pride of Chanur

American Science fiction

When Tully, a fugitive from a spaceship captured by the arrogant, insect-like Kif, takes refuge on the Pride of Chanur, a merchant vessel belonging to a clan of the lion-like Hani, Pyanfar, its captain, gives him shelter, in spite of all the dangers she and her crew will face.

1981

Fortress in the eye of time

Wizards, Fiction, Fantasy

Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose -- to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shadows. that most wonderous of spells, a Shaping. A Shaping in the form of a, young man who will be sent east on the road the old was to old to travel. To right the wrongs of a long-forgotten wizard war, and call new wars into being. Here is the long-awaited major new novel from one of the brightest stars in the fantasy and science fiction firmament.C.J.Cherryh's haunting story of the wizard Mauryl, kingmaker for a thousand years of Men, and Tristen, fated to sow distrust between a prince and his father being. A tale as deep as legend and a intimate as love, it tells of a battle beyond Time, in which all Destiny turns on the wheel of an old man's ambition, a young man's innocence, and the unkept promised of a king to come.

1995

Foreigner

Space colonies, Fiction, Science fiction

Humans stranded on an alien world. Accepted by the aliens, until suddenly it was war. Because when the aliens are hard-wired in their brains to not even be able to understand the concept of friend; and loyalty to your boss is unbending and forever, until you realize a higher boss has pulled you away -- and that's not betrayal just natural, well, then, how can humans possibly interact? So, now, one man, Bren, is the sole interpretor for all human-alien interactions... and then the whole dynamic changes. A fascinating insight into what it really means to discover an "alien" culture. Gripping story that sets off a series now more than 13 titles strong.

1994

Wave without a Shore

1981

The Faded Sun

American Fantasy fiction, Science fiction

This is a story of diplomacy and warfare of conspiracy and betryal and of three people from two enemy civilizations. who found themselves thrown together in a life-and-death alliance.

1978

Hestia

Space colonies, Fiction

1979