This is one of the best science fiction series currently this point, the series has turned into a complicated set of thrillers involving political and factional turmoil, as well as a close and detailed examination of the troubled interactions between human and alien cultures. One of the best long-running SF series in existence.Cherryh remains one of the most talented writers in the field. LocusĪ seriously probing, thoughtful, intelligent piece of work, with more insight in half a dozen pages than most authors manage in half a thousand. Cherryh's splendid Foreigner series remains at the top of my must-keep-up reading list after two decades. The work of an isolated lunatic? The interests of a particular faction? Or the consequence of one human's fondness for a species which has fourteen words for betrayal and not a single word for love?Ĭ.J. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin's bullet. Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship. It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin's bullet.The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh's eponymous space opera series of first contact and its consequences

It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh's eponymous space opera series of first contact and its consequences

Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh