She has written science fiction since she was ten, spent ten years of her life teaching Latin and Ancient History on the high school level, before retiring to full time writing, and now does not have enough hours in the day to pursue all her interests. She sketches, occasionally, cooks fairly well, and hates house work she loves the outdoors, animals wild and tame, is a hobbyist geologist, adores dinosaurs, and has academic specialties in Roman constitutional law and bronze age Greek ethnography. She began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball, and, a late passion, figure skating: she intends to compete in the adult USFSA track. She is the author of more than forty novels. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. If you like reading about alien societies that feel truly alien, I’d highly recommend these books.Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J.

I’ve seen these books described as “First Contact” stories, but they are about what happens after first contact. There are some priceless gems in those books. I love the books of the series that are set in space. I love the drawn-out affairs of Bren’s dysfunctional relationship with his human family. You think you know them, and then you find out you don’t. I love the familiar-but-yet-alien feel of the atevi characters. Over the course of the series, we learn much, much more about the society, about Bren and the history of human settlement. The very best I know, if fact.īook 1 also pulls off one of the best-ever didn’t-see-that-coming twists I have encountered in fiction. We learn with him, through the events as they unfold. Bren doesn’t know much about what is going on either, just that there are attacks and fighting and he’s being jostled about the countryside. In book 1, the reader is pretty much in the dark about this society and learns through osmosis. He lives in the household, and by the mercy, of the atevi leader. Bren does not live with the other humans on their island, but is originally employed as a translator. The larger and stronger atevi are dangerous, don’t like humans on their planet but begrudgingly acknowledge their existence. These books detail the life and tribulations of a puny human Bren Cameron on a planet where humans are in the minority and not in power. Start reading book number 1 (click on the image). My number one favourite of favourite series.

Cj cherryh foreigner books in order