C. J. Cherryh Libri

Questo è un romanzo composito, decisamente atipico nella produzione della Cherryh. E' la storia di uomini che hanno raggiunto le stelle e calcato il suolo di lontani pianeti, ma che hanno serbato nel cuore il ricordo della Terra, la culla dell'umanità. Però alcuni non hanno abbandonato il pianeta natale per le stelle, e hanno preferito i vecchi cieli e i venti del loro mondo che nella sua storia ha visto un'infinità di trionfi e di miserie. Con gli uomini, a sfidare il crepuscolo della Terra, sono rimaste alcune città, assai diverse da quelle di un tempo, ma ancora dotate ognuna di una propria individualità e dell'antico orgoglio. Questa è la loro storia...

Bren and Illisidi must protect young prince Cajeiri and the human children who have come to visit for his birthday from the dangerous split compromising the Assassin's Guild.

In the fifteenth installment of Cherryh's Foreigner space opera series, civil war on the atevi world has ended, and Cajeiri, the heir of Tabini-aiji, is set to celebrate his ninth birthday. Bren Cameron, a skilled human diplomat, has arranged for Cajeiri's three special friends from the starship Phoenix to join the festivities. After a turbulent year, this celebration signifies safety and stability, with the aiji back in power and the world watching. However, Bren uncovers alarming evidence of compromised security within the aiji's high office. The Assassins' Guild, crucial to law enforcement and protection in atevi society, is under the control of a man intent on regressing the world by two centuries. Bren learns of a decades-old plot woven through Guild actions, and the imminent public celebration presents the perfect opportunity for the enemy to strike. With the lives of Cajeiri, his innocent human guests, and the ruling family at risk, Bren and his allies must act decisively. They face a critical choice: make the first move or risk losing everything. This installment can be enjoyed by casual readers as part of the broader series.

They were the mri—tall, secretive, bound by honor and the rigid dictates of their society. For aeons this golden-skinned, golden-eyed race had provided the universe mercenary soldiers of almost unimaginable ability. But now the mri have faced an enemy unlike any other—an enemy whose only way of war is widespread destruction. These "humans" are mass fighters, creatures of the herb, and the mri have been slaughtered like animals. Now, in the aftermath of war, the mri face extinction. It will be up to three individuals to save whatever remains of this devastated race: a warrior—one of the last survivors of his kind; a priestess of this honorable people; and a lone human—a man sworn to aid the enemy of his own kind. Can they retrace the galaxy-wide path of this nomadic race back through millennia to reclaim the ancient world which first gave them life? "This is a powerful story…inspiring in its determination and feeling of strange loyalties and stranger courage. It sticks in the mind long after the last page is finished."-- Analog

The nineteenth book in C.J. Cherryh's beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi. Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space. With supplies and housing stretched to the breaking point, it is clear that the refugees must be relocated down to the planet, and soon. But not to the atevi mainland: rather to the territory reserved for human, the island of Mospheira. Tabini-aiji, the powerful political head of the atevi, tasks his brilliant human diplomat, Bren Cameron, to negotiate with the Mospheiran government. For the Alpha Station refugees represent a political faction that the people of Mospheira broke from two centuries ago, and these Mospheirans are not enthusiastic about welcoming these immigrants from space.

It has been two years since the starship Phoenix left Alpha Station on a rescue mission to a faraway sector of space where over four thousand human spacers were under attack by a hostile alien race. Now, the Phoenix is almost home, having successfully rescued the stranded colonists through the combined negotiating talents of Bren Cameron-brilliant human paidhi to the atevi court, currently representing Tabini-aiji, the atevi ruler-and of Tabini's grandmother llisidi, the aiji-dowager, a fearsome, wily, and ambitious atevi leader in her own right