And if this were a short story or even a novella, I may have liked, but this was just too much and drawn out too far. Her complicated and fully developed alien structures are first class science fiction. Cherryh is an exceptionally talented writer and her imagination and world building are on wonderful display. Cherryh's Hugo Award winning space opera novel about a far future Earth and its far flung colonial system and how the farthest out colonies go rogue and of the space station in the middle that tries to stay neutral but can’t and there are cutesy poo aliens who talk like intellectually challenged Ewoks who help out and then there are some assassin clones who have memory problems and then … and then. If an author takes a great idea and then adds five hundred pages to it, it may be too watered down.Ĭ.J. But if you were to take the glass of whiskey and mix it with a gallon of water, then you will likely not even taste the whiskey. If you take a glass of whiskey and take a sip and it is too strong, add some water or ice and it makes it more enjoyable. She works constantly, researches mostly on the internet, and has books stacked up and waiting to be written. A loom is gathering dust and needs rethreading, a wooden ship model awaits construction, and the cats demand their own time much more urgently.
Her studies include planetary geology, weather systems, and natural and man-made catastrophes, civilizations, and cosmology…in fact, there's very little that doesn't interest her.
She has written science fiction since she was ten, spent ten years of her life teaching Latin and Ancient History on the high school level, before retiring to full time writing, and now does not have enough hours in the day to pursue all her interests. She sketches, occasionally, cooks fairly well, and hates house work she loves the outdoors, animals wild and tame, is a hobbyist geologist, adores dinosaurs, and has academic specialties in Roman constitutional law and bronze age Greek ethnography. She began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball, and, a late passion, figure skating: she intends to compete in the adult USFSA track. She is the author of more than forty novels. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J.
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