The Cherryh Grove » Alliance Ascendant » 6/05/2025 9:56 am |
Now even more worried about whether we'll get the next Foreigner book.
The Cherryh Grove » FB note from Jane, next Alliance book and life » 3/24/2025 1:19 pm |
I hope CJC's health is improving, and selfishly, I hope that we get another Foreigner novel, as the last one ended on a cliffhanger and it feels like some sort of big resolution is approaching.
Babbling Books » What have you been reading lately? » 10/20/2024 12:03 pm |
I had not read anything by Gentle before, which is surprising, actually. I'll look out for those. The Orthe books were suggested to me on another forum when I asked for something Cherryh or AD Foster-like. And they are, but the version that sort of bums you out. In a good way, I guess, the kind where you appreciate how clever it all is.
The Cherryh Grove » Alliance Unbound » 10/20/2024 11:58 am |
Yes, I meant Unbound. Brain fart due to multitasking LOL.
I have barely started it yet. I appreciate the *in medias res* opening, but as I've generally not been in the habit of rereading previous books from series, I'm finding it hard to remind myself of the context.
Babbling Books » What have you been reading lately? » 10/19/2024 10:27 am |
The second book especially also has some of the most "metal" quotes in SF, "Because she has entered the city, a great race shall come to corruption; because she has entered the city, a cancer eats at the living flesh of it ..."
Babbling Books » What have you been reading lately? » 10/19/2024 10:24 am |
Someone pointed me to Mary Gentle's early 1980s Orthe duology, Golden Witchbreed and Ancient Light. It sounds like fantasy, but it's definitely SF, but SF in the 1980s mode where psionics were a very popular trope in SF. Anyway, the overall plot has a very "Foreigner" feel to it, except a lot darker -- imagine a version of "Foreigner" where you have constant reason to doubt Bren's suitability as paidhi or even his credibility as a perspective.
Gentle wrote it deliberately that way, and it's very clever, but as I said, I would class it as an early sort of grimdark, even though it doesn't seem so at the beginning (especially if you're coming from a CJ Cherryh background, you only start to doubt the seemingly Bren-like protagonist's role fairly late in the plot).
The Cherryh Grove » Alliance Unbound » 10/19/2024 10:20 am |
Nobody mentioned the release of Alliance Rising. I was able to get it on my Kobo app for 17 USD, which is quite high for an e-book novel these days, so they must have been anticipating a lot of demand.
I don't get any CJ news anymore because she seems to have gone completely Farcebook and I don't Farcebook. I hope there's going to be some resolution in the current Foreigner arc soon.
Babbling Books » The 2024 Hugo Awards » 7/24/2024 9:55 pm |
I very much enjoyed Translation State as I love all of hautdesert's work, and I also enjoyed Starter Villain, but IMO it's not top shelf, I agree. I had Amina al-Sirafi on my to-read list. The others were not on my radar, but that doesn't mean anything.
The Cherryh Grove » Defiance spoiler thread you really want to read » 11/01/2023 11:06 am |
The way it was worded didn't sound like radio interception to me. There's a whole lot about the Mospheira-mainland relationship that is not fleshed out but more hinted at in Defiance than in previous works. Like the fact that there was an aishi'ditat warship permanently stationed in the strait.
In real life, in these situations, there are very often smugglers, and smugglers often develop their own pidgins and patoises. And even to transfer goods officially, there must be chances for interaction and backchannels that the paidhi might not actually ever know about.
The Cherryh Grove » Defiance spoiler thread you really want to read » 10/28/2023 4:00 pm |
OK, it's been long enough, we need a spoiler thread now to discuss the book.
I found the offhand remark about the President of Mospheira receiving news about atevi from "the places where humans receive such news" (or something like that) rather intriguing. Mospheira *has* commercial relations with the mainland, that's how Ilisidi had access to vodka in another book. So there must be some kind of social meeting point somewhere in order for that to take place, and from there humans receive news? Or is it all via the station? It would have been mentioned if it were.