C.J. Cherryh

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  • Bibliography:
    111 Books (12 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1976
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Alliance-Union

1 - Heavy Time (May-1991)
2 - Hellburner (Jun-1993)
3 - Downbelow Station (Feb-1981)
4 - Merchanter's Luck (Jul-1982)
5 - Rimrunners (Feb-1986)
6 - Tripoint (Sep-1994)
7 - Finity's End (Aug-1997)
8 - Cyteen (May-1988)
8 - Cyteen: The Betrayal (1989)
8 - Cyteen: The Rebirth (Mar-1989)
8 - Cyteen: The Vindication (Apr-1989)
9 - Regenesis (Jan-2009)
10 - The Faded Sun: Kesrith (1978)
11 - The Faded Sun: Shon'Jir (Apr-1979)
12 - The Faded Sun: Kutath (Aug-1978)
13 - Serpent's Reach (Aug-1980)
14 - Brothers of Earth (Oct-1976)
15 - Hunter of Worlds (Aug-1977)
Forty Thousand in Gehenna (1983)

Arafel

1 - The Dreamstone (Mar-1983)
2 - The Tree of Swords and Jewels (Aug-1983)

Chanur

1 - Pride of Chanur (Jan-1982)
2 - Chanur's Venture (Jan-1985)
3 - Kif Strike Back (1986)
4 - Chanur's Homecoming (1987)
5 - Chanur's Legacy (Aug-1992)

Foreigner

1 - Foreigner (Feb-1994)
2 - Invader (May-1995)
3 - Inheritor (Apr-1996)
4 - Precursor (Nov-1999)
5 - Defender (Nov-2001)
6 - Explorer (Nov-2002)
7 - Destroyer (Feb-2005)
8 - Pretender (Mar-2006)
9 - Deliverer (Feb-2007)
10 - Conspirator (May-2009)
11 - Deceiver (May-2010)
12 - Betrayer (Apr-2011)
13 - Intruder (Mar-2012)
14 - Protector (Apr-2013)
15 - Peacemaker (Apr-2014)
16 - Tracker (Apr-2015)
17 - Visitor (Apr-2016)
18 - Convergence (Apr-2017)
19 - Emergence (Jan-2018)
20 - Resurgence (Jan-2020)
21 - Divergence (Sep-2020)
22 - Defiance (Oct-2023)

Fortress

1 - Fortress in the Eye of Time (May-1995)
2 - Fortress of Eagles (Jan-1998)
3 - Fortress of Owls (Jan-1999)
4 - Fortress of Dragons (May-2000)
4 - Fortress of Ice (Nov-2006)

Gene Wars

1 - Hammerfall (Jul-2001)
2 - Forge of Heaven (Jun-2004)

The Hinder Stars

1 - Alliance Rising (Jan-2019)
2 - Alliance Unbound (Oct-2024)

Merovingen Nights

1 - Festival Moon (Apr-1987)
2 - Angel with the Sword (1985)
2 - Fever Season (Oct-1987)
3 - Troubled Waters (May-1988)
4 - Smuggler's Gold (Sep-1988)
5 - Divine Right (Sep-1989)
6 - Flood Tide (Nov-1990)
7 - Endgame (Aug-1991)

Morgaine Saga

1 - Gate of Ivrel (Mar-1976)
2 - Well of Shiuan (Apr-1978)
3 - Fires of Azeroth (Jun-1979)
4 - Exile's Gate (Jan-1988)

Rider {Finisterre}

1 - Rider at the Gate (Aug-1995)
2 - Cloud's Rider (Sep-1996)

The Russian Stories

1 - Rusalka (Oct-1989)
2 - Chernevog (1990)
3 - Yvgenie (Oct-1991)

Sword of Knowledge

3 - Reap the Whirlwind (Sep-1991)

Multi-Author Series List

Thieves' World

Uneasy Alliances (Jul-2022)

Book List in Order: 111 titles

  • Gate of Ivrel

    Morgaine Saga - 1

    The time-space gates of a vanished but not forgotten alien race, who tampered with the very essence of the universe, must be destroyed before they fall into the hands of power-hungry individuals who seek to misuse their potential...

  • Brothers of Earth

    Alliance-Union - 14

    SHE WAS PRIESTESS-RULER .. . in a world of humanoid aliens. Yet she was as human as he was, though their star-nations had been bitter enemies for two thousand years. "Welcome to my world, Kurt Morgan," she said. "We seem to be humanity's orphans ...

  • Hunter of Worlds

    Alliance-Union - 15

    The iduve were the most advanced spacefaring race in the galaxy. They travelled where they pleased in giant city-sized vessels, engrossed with their own affairs. The iduve were humanoids--with a difference: they were predators incapable of human emot...

  • The Faded Sun: Kesrith

    • / Space Opera
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    Alliance-Union - 10

    Experience an epic science fiction series offered in one omnibus edition. C.J. Cherryh's The Faded Sun Trilogy tells the story of the mri-tall, a secretive society bound by honour and strict discipline. This golden race for eons offered the unive...

  • Well of Shiuan

    Morgaine Saga - 2

    The world of Shiuan was doomed. Rising waters and shattering earthquakes had sealed its fate. The only escape routes were the Gates. And just as this knowledge dawned on the desperate tribes and cities there appeared the woman Morgaine—whose...

  • The Faded Sun: Kutath

    Alliance-Union - 12

    This is the story of three people: Sten Duncan, a soldier of humanity; Niun, last warrior of the mri, humanity's enemies; Melein, priestess-queen of the final fallen mri stronghold. This is the story of two mighty species fighting for a galaxy: huma...

  • The Faded Sun: Shon'Jir

    Alliance-Union - 11

    Sten Duncan had saved the lives of the last two of humanity's deadliest enemies, during the takeover of their planet Kesrith. Sten therefore felt responsible for them and for their future -- if any. For though the two mri were brother and sister, th...

  • Shonjir

  • Fires of Azeroth

    Morgaine Saga - 3

    There was a star Gate in Azeroth marked by alien fires that Morgaine must seal. But Morgaine and Vanye have brought devastation to the peaceful land. For the hordes of Shiuan were on their heels, determined to conquer a new land for themselves and to...



  • Hestia

    After a hundred pioneer years the colony on Hestia seemed to be nearing its end. Its holdings on that green and fertile planet were still limited to a single river in one valley. Everywhere else hostile fauna hedged them in. A dam could break the ...

  • Serpent's Reach

    Alliance-Union - 13

    The constellation of Hydrus, known as the Serpent, is compact and obscure as seen from Earth's sky. Even in the great era of interstellar colonization it remained obscure. For it was under strict quarantine harboring an intelligent race, powerful, al...

  • Downbelow Station

    Alliance-Union - 3

    Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire id the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies. Whoever controlled Pell's Downbelow station held the key to Earth's defensive perimeter -- or the jum...

  • Sunfall

    Men had gone to the stars; they had trod the soil of distant planets and settled their colonies; yet the homeworld of Earth remained. It was legend; it was a place of nostalgia for mankind's lost youth; it was always there. For every son or daughter ...

  • Pride of Chanur

    Chanur - 1

    No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt-toothed and blunt-fingered,Tully was the sole surviving member of his company--a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown--and he was a prisoner of ...

  • Merchanter's Luck

    Alliance-Union - 4

    His name was Sandor and he was the owner and entire crew of a tramp star-freighter that flew the Union planets under false papers and fake names. Her name was Allison and she was a proud but junior member of the powerful family whose mighty starsh...

  • Port Eternity

    Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Modred, Lynette and Vivien, but they were not characters from legend: They were made people, clone servants designed to suit the fancy of their opulent owner, the Lady Dela Kim. And they worked ab...

  • Forty Thousand in Gehenna

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    Alliance-Union

    "Set in the same future as #f r Inning Downbelow Station, but fully self-contain , i5`is a story on the classic theme of human underestimation of the alien. The 40,000 colonists on Gehenna are abandoned for political reasons. When the re-supply ships...

  • The Dreamstone

    Arafel - 1

    It was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed with inhuman voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place --...

  • The Tree of Swords and Jewels

    Arafel - 2

    They said that Ciaran Cuilean was fey -- that he had the touch of the Sidhe on him, and on his lands. And it was true. Elvish blood ran in his veins, and he had been to that other world -- that parallel and magical land of Eald, where Arafel, the Lad...



  • Voyager in Night

    Two voyages, two ships. One had been en route for over a hundred thousand years, was the size of an asteroid, and its place of launching beyond the trace of any man-made telescope. Its crew was an enigma. The other ship had been out of Endeavor Stati...

  • Wave Without a Shore

  • Alien Stars

  • Chanur's Venture

    Chanur - 2

    Pyanfar Chanur thought she had seen the last of Tully, the lone human who had so disrupted the peace of Meetpoint Station and gained the Chanur clan the enmity of half a dozen races as well as their own. But in this striking sequel to the Hugo-nomina...

  • Angel with the Sword

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    Merovingen Nights - 2

    MEROVINGEN C.J. Cherryh's fantastic city of canals, where the wealthy and powerful dwell in the highest towers, and the boaters, beggars, spies, and thieves lurk on the highly polluted interlacing waterways below.... MEROVINGEN where gutsy young...

  • The Prince

    in The Eternal City

    Collecting tales of Roman glory and decadence written by science fiction authors, this melding of past and future themes includes stories by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, David Drake, and Robert E. Howard...

  • Cuckoo's Egg

    They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the fig...

  • Kif Strike Back

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    Chanur - 3

    Chanur's Revenge. Kif power. Hani Pride... When the kif seized Hilfy and Tully, hani and human crew of the Pride of Chanur, they issued a challenge Pyanfar, captain of Pride, couldn't ignore, a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmates t...

  • Memory Blank

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  • Rimrunners

    Alliance-Union - 5

    Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose side lost. Now she is forced to escape aboard Loki, surrounded by enemies and hunting her old comrades. And the fighting skills she must use to surviv...



  • The Gates of Hell

    Out of the underworld and into your heart! Rumor has it that there is a way out of Hell, through tunnels. Of course the rumors could he disinformation direct from the Father of Lies; all the Heroes of Hell who have assembled for the adventure know th...

  • Visible Light

    IMAGES OUT OF TIME AND SPACE -- The terrifying, prophetic vision of a not-too-distant future here on Earth...An ever-changing journey through Gates in time with countless beginnings but only one End....A world where man and machine define life -- a...

  • Marking Time

    in Rebels in Hell

    All of Hell is in revolt as Gilgamesh, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the other damned, turn rebel, in this collection of stories by such science fiction masters as Robert Silverberg, Janet Morris, C.J. Cherryh, David Drake, Martin Caidin, a...

  • Monday Morning

    in Rebels in Hell

    All of Hell is in revolt as Gilgamesh, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the other damned, turn rebel, in this collection of stories by such science fiction masters as Robert Silverberg, Janet Morris, C.J. Cherryh, David Drake, Martin Caidin, a...

  • Swift-Spear

    in The Blood of Ten Chiefs

    The Wolfriders lived for ten thousand years on the World of Two Moons, before Cutter, Blood of Ten Chiefs, was born to lead them to freedom. A lot can happen in ten thousand years.......

  • Chanur's Homecoming

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    Chanur - 4

    A FIRST CONTACT UNLIKE ANY OTHER When those strange entities called "humans" sent their first exploration ship into Compact space, the delicate power balances of the seven races of the Compact were catastrophically disrupted. And by giving shelter...

  • Kings in Hell

  • Festival Moon

    Merovingen Nights - 1

    Merovin, the world that C.J. Cherryh built, a low-tech, inhospitable planet where the human survivors of a colony nearly destroyed by an enigmatic alien race still dwell, salvaging what they can, while awaiting the return of the alien menace or redis...

  • Legions of Hell

  • Fever Season

    Merovingen Nights - 2



  • Exile's Gate

    Morgaine Saga - 4

    The fourth and final book in the epic Morgaine science fiction sagaMorgaine must meet her greatest challenge -- Gault, who is both human and alien, and also seeks control of the world and its Gate. She will meet the true Gatemaster -- a mysterious lo...

  • Cyteen

    Alliance-Union - 8

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    The saga of two young friends trapped in an endless nightmare of suspicion and surveillance, of cyber-programmed servants and a ruling class with century-long lives—and the enigmatic woman who dominates them all. Narrators Jonathan Davis an...

  • Troubled Waters

    Merovingen Nights - 3

  • The Paladin

    ALAS FOR CHIYADEN It is a country of myths and demons, dragons and magic, a land long ruled by the spirits of wind and water. Alas, its human sphere is not so benignly governed. The old Emperor has died, and the heir is weak and timid. Vicious Lor...

  • Smuggler's Gold

    Merovingen Nights - 4

  • Cyteen: The Betrayal

    • / Space Opera
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    Alliance-Union - 8

  • Cyteen: The Rebirth

    Alliance-Union - 8

  • Cyteen: The Vindication

    Alliance-Union - 8

  • Divine Right

    Merovingen Nights - 5

    In a collection of short stories, the tangle-lilly plants proliferate throughout Merovingen--a clever plot by the Janists to spread forbidden technological knowledge to the canalers and the first step to a future revolt...

  • Rusalka

    The Russian Stories - 1

    A PERILOUS LOVE In the folk-tales of pre-Christian Russia, the most dangerous ghost of all was the Rusalka, a murdered girl still seeking to exist by drawing the energy of life from all nearby living things. Once Pyetr Kochevikov had mocked belief i...



  • Wizard Spawn

  • Chernevog

    The Russian Stories - 2

    TANGLED TRAILS OF TERROR The forest wilderness lay somewhere north of Kiev in the spirit-haunted land of ancient Russia. There Eveshka, the former destructive ghost -- a rusalka restored to life -- had dwelt in peace for three years with her husb...

  • Flood Tide

    Merovingen Nights - 6

    Cardinal Boregy's murder has proven a catalyst for dangerous new political games among the Great Houses. As intrigues begin CO unwind, the death toll slowly mounts, shifting control in many of the Houses. To some this seems the perfect opportunity to...

  • A Dirge for Sabis

  • Heavy Time

    Alliance-Union - 1

    Two asteroid miners find a dead, drifting ship--but its pilot, Paul Dekker, is alive, insane from shock, and screaming... screaming dues to a mystery that no one wants solved ... WHAT IS MAMA HIDING? Paul Dekker, a kid with a dream, wakes to a ...

  • Endgame

    Merovingen Nights - 7

  • Reap the Whirlwind

    Sword of Knowledge - 3

  • Yvgenie

    The Russian Stories - 3

    THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER In the spirit-haunted wilderness near Kiev, years had passed since the evil wizard Chernevog had given up his life. Ilyana had grown into a young woman. Her mother Eveshka, the former rusalka, and her father Pyetr, kept...

  • The Goblin Mirror

    Things weren't right in the little kingdom of Maggiar, so the princes Bogdan and Tamas set off to seek an answer to the kingdom's troubles in the world over the mountain, a world they knew only from legends. But that glorious place was great no more....

  • Chanur's Legacy

    Chanur - 5

    Hilfy Chanur, once a member of her aunt's crew on Pride of Chanur, is now captain of her own vessel, Chanur's Legacy. It should have been the ideal existence for Hilfy, her fondest dream fulfilled, but instead the youong captain's increasingly hard-p...

  • Hellburner

    Alliance-Union - 2

    Forced to help jinxed pilot Paul Dekker, Ben Pollard becomes entangled unwittingly in a lethal deep space political mess. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Heavy Time. and Cyteen. Reprint....

  • Foreigner

    Foreigner - 1

    It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliance...

  • Faery in Shadow

    Avoiding other humans because of the curse placed on him, Caithe mac Sliabhan nevertheless aids a strange couple who claim to be husband and wife but look like twins to Caith, and who are under the spell of a witch...

  • Tripoint

    Alliance-Union - 6

    A social outcast, Thomas Bowe is caught between the rivalry of two merchant spaceships, one headed by his father and one by the woman whom his father had raped long ago. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Cyteen. Reprint....

  • Fortress in the Eye of Time

    Fortress - 1

    IT WAS A SHADOW AGE AND SHADOW PLACE Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose--to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shad...

  • Invader

    Foreigner - 2

    The second novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans o...

  • Rider at the Gate

    Rider {Finisterre} - 1

    A forgotten colony lost on a planet of wild beauty and unimaginable danger. A people held together by a renegade band of outcast heroes, called to their destinies by alien dreams. A world of Riders and Nighthorses, their minds linked together on the ...

  • Lois & Clark: A Superman Novel

    Lives were at stake on the far side of the world; and no other person on Earth except Superman stood a chance of helping those people if that dam went. Four more dams were downriver. That whole region, rocked by earthquakes and deluged by spring rain...

  • Inheritor

    Foreigner - 3

    THE RACE FOR SPACE Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix -- six months during which the alien atevi have striven to reconfigure their fledgling space program in a breakneck bid to take their place in the heavens alo...

  • Cloud's Rider

    Rider {Finisterre} - 2

    A lethal mountain blizzard leads to a holocaust of madness and murder, but young rider Danny Fisher and the alien nighthorse Cloud must, protect a snowbound village beset by fear and greed. For the telepathic predators of the Wild, emotions are weapo...

  • Lois and Clark

    Their entire relationship is founded on a secret. Now that secret is in jeopardy. In this exciting new novel, award-winning author C. J. Cherryh takes us deep into the private lives and thrilling adventures of Lois Lane, Clark Kent, and the world?s m...

  • Finity's End

    Alliance-Union - 7

    One of science fiction's most accomplished authors, C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her bestselling, Hugo Award-winning classics, Downbelow Station and Cyteen, with a thrilling, critically acclaimed new Merchanter novel of a starship-dwelling...

  • The Dreaming Tree

    The classic fantasy duology, combining The Dreamstone and The Tree of Swords and Jewels in an omnibus for the first timeIt was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which befo...

  • Fortress of Eagles

    Fortress - 2

    CHILD OF WIZARDRY Tristen is both more and less than a man. A summoning, a shaping, he was brought to life by a wizard, to serve a king yet to be crowned. Now the wizard is dead. And young Cefwyn is king. Cefwyn has a dream: a united Ylesuin...

  • Pieces of Six

  • Fortress of Owls

    Fortress - 3

    "I DREAMED OF OWL. THAT MEANS WIZARDRY IS NEAR." Tristen is a weapon in an ancient war between wizardry and sorcery. He is a summoning and a shaping, brought to life by a wizard. And his sword is a weapon as well. Its keen blade, marked Illusion o...

  • Precursor

    Foreigner - 4

    The fourth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…Over three years have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix, which two centuries before left an isol...

  • Fortress of Dragons

    Fortress - 4

    THE WALLS BETWEEN THE WORLDS ARE DOWN, A NEW UNFOLDING HAS BEGUN.. . It started long ago, as a war between the shadowy Immortals that persists today, as the wizard Mauryl's Shaping confronts the Shadows summoned from Chaos. Tristen is that Shaping...

  • Alternate Realities

    Port EternityTheir names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette and Vivien, and they were made people, clone servants who worked aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea of their origins, from tho...

  • Devil to the Belt

    C. J. Cherryh's upcoming new science fiction novel Hammerfall (Avon Eos, 7/01), is the perfect opportunity to revisit this author's strong backlist, including the latest book, Devil to the Belt (Warner, 12/00). Ranging from Earth to the asteroids and...

  • Hammerfall

    Gene Wars - 1

    Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious et...

  • Defender

    Foreigner - 5

    THE POLITICS OF SPACE It has been over two centuries since the starship Phoenix disappeared into space, leaving a colony of humans to fend for themselves on the world of the alien atevi. Since then humans have lived in exile using a single diplom...

  • The Sandman, The Tinman, and the BettyB

    in 30th Anniversary DAW: Science Fiction
    • / Science Fiction
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    Such masters of the Science Fiction genre as Tad Williams, Brian Aldiss, Frederik Pohl, Kate Elliot, C.J. Cherryh, and Julie E. Czerneda contribute all new, original pieces of short fiction to this commemorative volume honoring DAW Books thirtieth ye...

  • Explorer

    Foreigner - 6

    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS It has been nearly ten years since the starship Phoenix returned to the abandoned station orbiting the world of the alien atevi. This station, called Alpha, had been deserted for centuries following a rift between a faction of the...

  • At The Edge Of Space

    Now, two of C.J. Cherryh's long-unavailable early classics are together in one omnibus edition. Brothers of Earth and Hunter of Worlds chronicle the survival of solitary humans among hostile, predatory aliens on the fringes of human-explored space-an...

  • The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh

    All of C.J. Cherryh's award-winning short fiction, collected in one volume for the first time...“It’s rare that I’m not working on a novel. Short stories often happen between novels. Consequently my output is fairly small. But I love the tale-t...

  • Forge of Heaven

    Gene Wars - 2

    From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars, now in mass market. In the second volume of "T...

  • The Sword of Knowledge

    Barbarian Hordes vs. Sheer, Cold Reason Technology vs. Sorcery The Empire of Sabis is falling, besieged and overwhelmed by the army and hostile wizards of a more powerful empire. Still, it is not too late for a small group of philosopher-scientis...

  • Destroyer

    Foreigner - 7

    THEIR WORLD AT WAR 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, exhausted from their ...

  • The Deep Beyond

    This omnibus volume combines two Alliance-Union novels: Hugo Award nominee Cuckoo’s Egg and Locus Best Novel Award nominee Serpent’s Reach. In Cuckoo’s Egg:  They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was ugly ...

  • Pretender

    Foreigner - 8

    THE HUMAN TARGET Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission in space, the crew of the starship Phoenix return home to find disaster: civil war has broken out, the powerful Western Association has been overthrown, and Tabini-aiji, its forceful leader...

  • Fortress of Ice

    Fortress - 4

    Sixteen years have passed since the dramatic events of Fortress of Dragons, and Cefwyn, king at last, must rebuild his devastated kingdom. The embattled ruler is aided by his powerful friend Tristen Sihhe and two surprising allies in a struggle he mu...

  • Deliverer

    Foreigner - 9

    THE PRODIGY In the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to their seat of...

  • Alliance Space

    Two Alliance-Union novels, Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna, bound in one omnibus volume for the first time!Merchanter's Luck -- His name was Sandor and he was the owner and entire crew of a tramp star-freighter that flew the Union pla...

  • Regenesis

    Alliance-Union - 9

    The direct sequel to the Hugo Award- winning novel Cyteen, Regenesis continues the story of Ariane Emory PR, the genetic clone of one of the greatest scientists humanity has ever produced, and of her search for the murderer of her progenitor?the orig...

  • Conspirator

    Foreigner - 10

    First in a brand-new Foreigner trilogy from Hugo Award winning author C. J. Cherryh. Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association?and he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father?s rule. For Cajeiri...

  • Deceiver

    Foreigner - 11

    The civil war among the alien Atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri, his son and heir, has returned to the Bujavid, his seat of power. But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still pr...

  • Betrayer

    Foreigner - 12

    The civil war among the alien atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bujavid, their seat of power. But factions that re...

  • Intruder

    Foreigner - 13

    In the wake of civil war, Bren Cameron, the brilliant human diplomat of the alien atevi civilization, has left the capital and sought refuge at his country estate, Najida. But now he is trapped inside Najida-which has been surrounded by enemies- with...

  • Protector

    Foreigner - 14

    It's coming up on Cajeiri's birthday. The boy has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage sent down from the space station for a two week stay. But there's far a darker business going on in the background--a majo...

  • Peacemaker

    Foreigner - 15

    Civil war on the world of the atevi is finally over. And Cajeiri, son and heir of Tabini-aiji, atevi leader of the dominant Western Association, is about to celebrate his fortunate ninth birthday. Bren Cameron, brilliant human diplomat allied with Ta...

  • Tracker

    Foreigner - 16

    It’s been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron’s return from space -- a year when he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government over­thrown and the...

  • The Complete Morgaine

    Together for the first time in one volume -- all four novels in the dark science fiction epic, the Morgaine Cycle. The gates were relics of a lost era, a linked network of portals that the ruthless Qual empire used to span Time and Space. The Sci...

  • Visitor

    Foreigner - 17

    The human and atevi inhabitants of Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship telling them that the ship is inbound toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from th...

  • Convergence

    Foreigner - 18

    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 relo...

  • Emergence

    Foreigner - 19

    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 o...

  • Alliance Rising

    The Hinder Stars - 1

    SFWA Grand Master Cherryh returns to the Hugo-award winning Alliance-Union Universe with a thrilling entry in her far-reaching sci-fi saga. Years after Sol has lagged behind other great megastations like Pell and Cyteen, Alpha station receives new...

  • Resurgence

    Foreigner - 20

    The Foreigner saga returns to the trials of diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi. Bren Cameron, diplomat in residence, usually represents the ruler of the atevi state. Bu...

  • Divergence

    Foreigner - 21

    The twenty-first book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron, advisor to the atevi head of state. The overthrow of the atevi head of state, Tabini-aiji, and the several moves of enemies even since his resto...

  • Uneasy Alliances

    Thieves' World

    The struggle to rebuild Sanctuary continues in the eleventh entry in this shared-world fantasy series. The storms of war have passed Sanctuary by, and ordinary folk are confident the worst is behind them. Citizens work to restore their lives as the r...

  • Defiance

    Foreigner - 22

    The 22nd book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi.In the east, outright warfare has tied down the Assassins' Guild,...

  • Alliance Unbound

    The Hinder Stars - 2

    The 2nd novel of The Hinder Stars series returns to an intergalactic corporate conflict, set in the Hugo Awardâ€"winning Alliance-Union Universe.With deft prose and complex characters, Alliance Unbound is thought-provoking science fiction that shrewd...

Award-Winning Books by C.J. Cherryh

Cyteen
1989 Hugo Award -- Novel
1989 Locus Award -- Science Fiction
Downbelow Station
1982 Hugo Award -- Novel


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C.J. Cherryh has published 111 books.

C.J. Cherryh does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Alliance Unbound, was published in October 2024.

The first book by C.J. Cherryh, Gate of Ivrel, was published in March 1976.

Yes. C.J. Cherryh has 12 series.
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