![]() This is an earlier Cherryh work and one of several she published in a very short time in the early 1980s, however, and those clearly signify. The story itself is intriguing, the Chanur vessel with its human refugee running for shelter while the storm breaks around them setting a large-scale space opera in motion and focusing on a few characters awash on the tide can make a brilliant narrative ("A Memory Called Empire," for instance). The strengths of "The Pride of Chanur" remain very appealing to me: the non-human perspective, the 'human-as-alien' factor, that guile and machinations are given primacy over shoot-'em-ups, and we are presented with a number of non-human species who truly differ in nature from each other. ![]() ![]() I really don't know how or why I didn't read this when it came out, but I'm certain I would have loved it then. ![]()
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