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An earth colony ship aborts in the middle of a quantum jump and literally ends up off the charts. Lost and running low on fuel they decide to take a chance on landing on an inhabited planet and the main story begins. An exotic and fierce warrior culture immediately gets in humanity's face. Although the humans have vastly superior tech they are outnumbered hundreds of thousand to one. Getting along is the only long term survival option but the natives while human in appearance are vastly different and survival is an effort calling for all the creativity the Earthers have. Think Shogun.Finely drawn characters,tight world building and leisurely plot progression mark this book. One reviewer called the pacing glacial,I see it as relaxing. I have been using Cherryh's mature work(from the Fortress series on)as my unwind method of choice after a hectic day slaying wolves. Intelligent writing for folks that have been around the block a few times.


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Foreigner 10th Anniversary Edition C J Cherryh Books Reviews

For anyone wondering what all the fuss is about CJ Cherryh's Foreigner series, or has not read anything else by her, this is the one to read. It creates a fascinating world with aliens who are almost but not quite human (yes, those of a scientific bent will have to suspend their disbelief that the first extra-terrestrial sentient beings are even bipedal let alone similar enough to humans to share humor and even intimate relations), with a culture clearly modeled after medieval Japan right down to the names and language. But the emphasis on societal and linguistic interactions keep this from being just another space-opera. The characters are interesting, the plot and pacing draw you in and leave you hungry for more (though Foreigner does quite well as a stand-alone book) and the anthropological issues raised mean there is real meat for adults. As of 2014, the entire series has run to 15 books and counting, and unlike some series, this one follows a continuous story arc so in many ways it is actually one enormous book, This is one of my all-time favorite SF/Fantasy series, fun and interesting throughout.
This is the first book in the (now very long) Foreigner series by C. J. Cherryh. There are currently 19 novels that have come out over the last 24 years (plus 2 prequels) in this longest series of Cherryh's.

The first book, Foreigner, has a bit of an odd structure. There's a Book 1, Book 2, and Book 3 all bound together, but Books 1 and 2 are almost short story length - they really could have been relabeled as prequels as they were really more of a framing to the main story rather than anything else.

Our story opens with a manned spaceship intended to establish a space station encountering an error in navigation and ending up who-knows-where. Shortly thereafter we move to Book 2 which seems to be a first contact story - but then nope, we jump to Book 3, the real story!

200 years after the first contact bit, we join Bren, the sole human diplomat to the Atevi race. The author did a good job emphasizing Bren's solitude among the Atevi and how he struggles to interpret the Atevi interactions and conversation to him and how his own actions and words are interpreted by them. Bren ends up embroiled in political intrigue when an assassin comes after him early in the story and he's whisked off to another location without being able to contact the human settlement he represents.

The reader very much feels Bren's tenuous position, constant confusion and second-guessing of his understanding of motivations and interactions, and physical and political limitations in this foreign world. I really enjoyed that the author didn't pass off the aliens as simply humans with different hair/skin/eyes; though she wasn't stuck on physical differences either. The biggest differences were in Atevi prioritizing of personal loyalty to a leader (or themself, as they choose) over relationships and how Bren struggles not to assign human relationships/loyalty/liking to Atevi who simply do not function in that way.

This was also different from a lot of sci-fi premises because humans chose, under duress, to simply move on to an already populated world. Unsurprisingly, there's a conflict - that we never see except in historical glimpses. By treaty, and in seeing the world was already populated by a civilization that had already progressed to steam power, humans dole out their own technological advances bit by bit, still moving forward technology at a faster pace and different direction than it might have gone already. It's a very different take than what we usually see and for that I liked it.

The beginning of the book with the framing device felt very confusing and choppy. Similarly, seeing all of the plot unfold through the eyes and reactions of someone who is constantly cut off from information and isn't sure how to interpret what he's told and what's occurring makes for an anxious sort of read. Still, it was intriguing, and I'd like to read more in this universe despite not loving this first book.
This is the second time I've read this book. I read it years ago when it first came out and in those days I thought it was awesome. But now I am less impressed. This book is a bit slow as most of the time the reader is hearing the main character reason out his doubts and confusion regarding the other characters in the story. But I find the depth of character to be incredible. The fact that she steers the whole story from inside this guy's head is insanely good to me though hard to read as there is very little action.

So that's why I say this book is not for everyone. You have to be able to follow the reasoning, the thinking and understand that there will be very little action until the end of the book. This is more of a thinking man's SCi-Fi story.

Despite that, this book sets the stage for the rest of the series and I am looking forward to reading them all again as well as the new books she wrote that I have not read.

It must also be noted that when I read CJ Cherryh, I find my own writing is much improved. She inspires me to write well and to be a good author. That is invaluable.
What I like best about Cherryh's work are the intricate world-building and thought experiments.

The Chanur universe took each book to explore the psychology of a completely different alien species; the Foreigner universe does that in spades.

People who like shallow, shoot-em-up action type scifi will likely hate this, but if you like intricate, even baroque levels of detail layered on detail, you will like this. It helps to think of the series as one humongous book, with "Foreigner" serving as the foreword.

I keep wondering if the Chanur universe might blend into the Alliance-Union universe (who were those humans at the end anyway?), or maybe it will bump into the Foreigner universe (where did that human ship come from in the first place?).
An earth colony ship aborts in the middle of a quantum jump and literally ends up off the charts. Lost and running low on fuel they decide to take a chance on landing on an inhabited planet and the main story begins. An exotic and fierce warrior culture immediately gets in humanity's face. Although the humans have vastly superior tech they are outnumbered hundreds of thousand to one. Getting along is the only long term survival option but the natives while human in appearance are vastly different and survival is an effort calling for all the creativity the Earthers have. Think Shogun.Finely drawn characters,tight world building and leisurely plot progression mark this book. One reviewer called the pacing glacial,I see it as relaxing. I have been using Cherryh's mature work(from the Fortress series on)as my unwind method of choice after a hectic day slaying wolves. Intelligent writing for folks that have been around the block a few times.