One of the titans of contemporary science fiction, C.J. Cherryh has won the Locus Award and three Hugo Awards and was named a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Cherryh was born in St. Louis MO in 1942, and grew up Oklahoma. She began writing stories at the age of ten. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1964, with a BA in Latin (Phi Beta Kappa), taking classes in archaeology, mythology, and the history of engineering. She received her MA in classics in 1965 from Johns Hopkins University where she was a Woodrow Wilson fellow.
She then taught high school back in Oklahoma and began writing science fiction novels in her spare time. In 1976 she published her first two novels, Gate of Ivrel and Brothers of Earth, and won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1977. In 1979 she won her first Hugo Award for Best Short Story and quit teaching to write full time. She has written over seventy books, and at the age of seventy-six is still going strong! She lives with her wife, science fiction/fantasy author and artist Jane Fancher, near Spokane WA.
Her best seller Foreigner series began in 1994. It follows the descendants of a lost starship and their differing encounters with two alien species. Emergence is the nineteenth book in this long-running space opera, and opens up a new story line.
Tabini-aiji, the powerful ruler of the atevi Western Association, has sent his human mediator, Bren Cameron, to negotiate the resettlement of the Reunion Station refugees with the human Presidenta on the island of Mospheira. The refugees and the humans on Mospheira are descendants of opposing political factions that broke apart two centuries ago, and there are those on Mospheira who bitterly oppose the resettlement. Book 20, Resurgence, is scheduled for publication in 2019.
I've read probably 85% of everything she's written over the past 42 years and own copies of every book of hers that I could get my hands on, including a complete set of the Foreigner series. She is a world-building wonder, and I've re-read the books so often that many of them are held together with rubber bands.
Click HERE to read an interview with C.J. Cherryh from Zendipietro.com.
Click HERE to read a review from tor.com.
Click HERE to read a review from thespeedofwrite.com blog.
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