It is up to Pyanfar to navigate the threats to her ship and clan and eventually even whole Compact worlds that are brought about by her simple decision to shelter a single strange creature.42★6′54″N 115★8′30″W / 42.94833°N 115.97500°W / 42.94833 -115.97500Ĭ. The Compact is neither a political organization, nor a government it only regulates open trade and accessibility of space stations to all civilizations- oxygen and methane breathers alike, leaving them to resolve their conflicts and politics between themselves. The Compact is a region of stars occupied by a several space-faring civilizations. The first four books of the Chanur series follow Hani Captain Pyanfar Chanur's thought and actions as captain has to puzzle out changes in the behavior of the Kif and a strange mostly-hairless new race that is a stranger to "Compact space". The first time I read the set of Chanur books, I finished them in one long marathon effort, then immediately turned around and reread them again immediately. After immersing yourself in the heads of her aliens and their well developed cultural and psychological constructs, you can actually find other humans puzzling and strange. She does it so well in fact, that you can find yourself having a hard time getting back to thinking in purely human terms whenever you have to put the books down, even briefly. You can become so immersed in her alien's viewpoints that the sole human character came seem foreign and puzzling to you after reading. Cherryh one of the finest authors of Sci-fi is her ability to literally put you into the viewpoint of an alien race. I am miserly with 5-star reviews 4 stars means I liked a book very much 3 stars means I liked it 2 stars means I didn't like it (though often the 2-star books are very popular with other readers and/or are by authors whose other work I've loved). The reviews are not scholarly, but just indicate my reaction as a reader, reading being my addiction. Highly recommended, but begin with book one, "The Pride of Chanur."Ībout my reviews: I try to review every book I read, including those that I don't end up enjoying. (I would be happy if such characters were more common in science fiction.) I like how Cherryh shows the characters pushed close to their limits, how she lets the reader feel their tiredness, their grime, their worth. I will say that I continue to like the central characters, most notably Pyanfar, an alien spaceship captain: a female no longer young, who is grumpy, resourceful, courageous. I won't discuss plot details beyond that. The story picks up immediately from the end of book two, proceeds via action and inter-species politicking for some three hundred entertaining pages, then stops, with much unresolved, to pass the baton onward to book four. This is the third volume in a five-book science-fiction series from the 1980s that I am re-reading. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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