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  Amazon.com: Kesrith (The Faded Sun, Book 1): Books: C. J. Cherryh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The _Faded Sun_ series is strongly recommended as space opera, as a study in human/alien and alien/alien interaction, and as the painful story of single human warrior's journey from one mindset to another.
The faded sun trilogy portrays two convincing & fascinating races locked with humans as the unpredictable element in a struggle for the stars and for mri, a struggle against extintion.
C.J. Cherryh's "Faded Sun" trilogy, set in her Merchanters/Union Universe, between wars, is a beautifully developed character study of a young man caught in a situation not of his making, and driven by his conscience.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0886774497?v=glance   (1607 words)

  
 Bernie Heidkamp- Responses to the Alien Mother in Post-Maternal Cultures: C.J. Cherryh and Orson Scott Card
trilogy, however, foreground gender issues and, specifically, the construction of gender through their emphasis on reproduction and mothering.
Ender discovers at the very end of the trilogy that it was through this computer game that the hive Queen was able to first communicate with him, although he was not aware of it.
In C.J. Cherryh's Serpent's Reach and Orson Scott Card's Ender trilogy, both of which were conceived in the late 1970s, the authors center hive cultures on the figure of a queen or mother, who dominates the hive, controlling all its members as if they are mere extensions of her body.
www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/70/heidkamp70art.htm   (8071 words)

  
 eBay - the faded sun, Antiquarian Collectible, Fiction Books items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The faded sun: Kutath by C. J Cherryh
The Faded Sun Trilogy by C. Cherryh (2000)
CHERRYH The Faded Sun: Kesrith SCI FI 618A
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 The SF Site Featured Review: The Faded Sun Trilogy
This SF series is the second she wrote, close on the heels of the Morgaine trilogy [Gate of Ivrel (1976), Well of Shiuan (1978), and Fires of Azeroth (1979)], although publication intermingled the two series on bookstore shelves.
The Faded Sun trilogy opens in the uneasy aftermath of a galaxy-spanning war hard-fought between humans and humanoid mri mercenaries, hired by the decidedly inhuman regul.
Before the trilogy is done, Duncan and the mri risk everything to find the original mri homeworld and to make places for themselves there, even as human and regul forces follow, with deep suspicion on all sides.
www.sfsite.com /07a/fs84.htm   (933 words)

  
 Xenofiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cherryh's Faded Sun Trilogy, comprised of Kesrith, Shon'jir, and Kutath.
Mercedes Lackey's Gryphon trilogy: The Black Gryphon, The White Gryphon, and The Silver Griffon.
Although these novels contain humans and human interaction, the primary protagonist Skandranon the Black Gryphon and his species are highly intelligent animals who are seen as humanity's equal on many levels.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xenofiction   (359 words)

  
 Precursor, by C. J. Cherryh
National best-selling author and winner of three Hugo Awards, C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed Foreigner trilogy-with an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race.
The beginning of a second trilogy, Precursor follows a single human delegate living among aliens, who are just gaining access to space....
Bren Cameron is the trusted human liaison to the court of the atevi in this sequel to the Foreigner trilogy.
www.used-and-new-books.com /sub_c-j-cherryh/Precursor   (1119 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Faded Sun Trilogy: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Faded Sun Trilogy will never be listed among the absolute greats of the science fiction genre, but it does bring a touch of originality and intelligence, enough to be well worth reading.
The portions of the trilogy that are written from an alien perspective are the best parts, a fascinating exploration of a society built on completely different assumptions than our own.
Perhaps Faded Sun qualifies as a typical women�s book, because between moments of action there are long, intense periods of examination of the feelings of the various characters.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0886778697   (1511 words)

  
 Yet Another Book Review Site
Come meet Surface Tactician Sten Duncan, aide to the honorable governor of the new territories and liaison between the regul aliens and humans, as he encounters fierce mri warriors caught in a power struggle with their regul "employers" on the hostile planet of Kesrith.
Travel deeper and deeper into space as one species tries to exterminate the other, discovering perhaps the most ancient of all livable worlds: Kutath, a planet whose own sun is dying.
Duncan and his comrades must convince these ancestral kinsmen to fight the devastating war in their wake in order to achieve their dream of race survival.
www.yetanotherbookreview.com /faded_sun.htm   (185 words)

  
 What is SF2
Faded Sun Trilogy: Kesrith - ShonÕjir - Kutath.
Deathworld Trilogy: Deathworld - Deathworld 2 - Deathworld 3.
Doona Trilogy: Crisis on Doona - Decision at Doona - Treaty at Doona.
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 THE FADED SUN
The first book in the, Faded Sun Trilogy.
Cherryh writes about the events near the end of the war between the Regul and Humans.
Admittedly, C.J. Cherryh is one of my most favorite authors -- this book (and other Faded Sun books) are great reads subject to being re-read with pleasure and shared with others.
www.yetanotherbookreview.com /kesrith.htm   (495 words)

  
 Raven's Reviews: C. J. Cherryh
The Faded Sun: Kesrith begins at the end of the 43-year long war of humans against mri, an alien race which has been hired mercenaries for the alien regul for over 2,000 years.
The Faded Sun: Shon'jir follows the two last mri (Niun and Melein) and Duncan, who have survived the regul's attempts to obliterate them and are now fleeing through space following a navigational record that's far more than millenia old.
The Faded Sun: Kutath is the end of the flight, the mri homeworld, where Niun and Melein discover they are not the last of their species after all.
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 THE FADED SUN
As is typical of great writing Cherryh gains and keeps a readers interest with good characterization, a good story and excellent writing.
This book is the capstone to one of the best trilogies I've ever read.
Although later Cherryh series (Chanur and Foreigner come to mind) may equal, they don't surpass Faded Sun.
www.yetanotherbookreview.com /kutath.htm   (210 words)

  
 Books, Listed by Author
* *The Faded Sun Trilogy (Methuen 0-413-14310-4, Apr ’87, £3.95, 756pp, pb) [Faded Sun] Omnibus of three sf novels.
* _The Faded Sun: Kutath (DAW 0-88677-133-1, May ’86 [Apr ’86], $2.95, 256pp, pb) [Faded Sun] Reissue (SFBC 1979) sf novel, third in the “Faded Sun” trilogy.
* _The Faded Sun: Shon’jir (DAW 0-88677-448-9, Jan ’90 [Dec ’90], $4.50, 253pp, pb, cover by Martin Andrews) [Faded Sun] Reissue (SFBC 1978) sf novel, second book in the “Faded Sun” trilogy.
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 FictionPress.Com Profile : Reklar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
I found the Empire Trilogy to be incredibly powerful emotionally and it was my first real glimpse at a female main character.
It led me to read more of her work including the Faded Sun Trilogy, a couple of stand alone titles and two compilation books containing three complete, different, novels each.
The Chronicles of Solace trilogy is one of my favorites of all time, dealing with time travel, terraforming, and the potential and pitfalls of future humanity.
www.fictionpress.com /~reklar   (1200 words)

  
 David Ketterer- The Machine in the Garden -- Take Two
Although Victor Frankenstein supposedly abandons his early alchemical studies in favor of modern science, his ambitions, and the metaphoric import of his procedures, remain alchemical.
The Faded Sun comes to focus on a science that, like alchemy, seeks "control over time and over the generative process" (101), on "an ideal human nature that can be forged" (111), and on making "the space program seem like an alternative to the Garden" (112).
Dune is categorized as a retelling of an ancient religious myth: "the battle of the transcendent sky-god against the witches of nature." It is an "example of the worship of transcendence, in the guise of secular entertainment" (113).
www.depauw.edu /sfs/review_essays/ketter69.htm   (2808 words)

  
 Books4
- This trilogy is the story of an alternate America in the days when much of it still belonged to the Indians and Canada was still held by the French.
The end of the last book just left me thirsting for more as it left off with a whole lot of story to tell, and it is such a moving, mystical, and human story.
They spend their time chasing "outlaws" (people whose only crime was being on the losing side of a war) and fighting among themselves as various factions vie for eventual dominance of the ship.
mountainweb.ca /laurence/Books4.html   (2665 words)

  
 Raven's Reviews: Top 100 x 2 Nomination List
This is the nomination for the Second Top 100 list (Top 100 x 2), to be voted on in February by reviewers and visitors.
Last year, we had 126 nominated books, trilogies, series, and comics nominated- we'd like to reach 200 this year.
"The Hound and the Falcon" (trilogy) by Judith Tarr
tatooine.fortunecity.com /leguin/405/top100/nomination2.html   (743 words)

  
 The SF Site: Featured Reviews Archive
This trilogy was originally published as 3 separate volumes, almost 30 years ago.
The trilogy opens in the uneasy aftermath of a galaxy-spanning war hard-fought between humans and humanoid mri mercenaries, hired by the decidedly inhuman regul...
Over the course of the last two decades, Cherryh's Merchanter universe has grown into one of the great future histories of science fiction.
www.sfsite.com /revus/revucherryh.htm   (529 words)

  
 Minnesota Society for Interest in Science Fiction and Fantasy Mary Bertelson's Favorite Science Fiction and Fantasy ...
While one of the main characters is human, I really liked her telling the story from the alien viewpoint.
It was a tough choice to pick only one set (The Faded Sun Trilogy was a major contender) from my library of her books, she's one of my favorites.
The Majipoor Trilogy (Lord Valentine's Castle, Majipoor Chronicles, Valentine Pontifex) by Robert Silverberg.
www.misfit.org /views/books/mbertelson.htm   (440 words)

  
 The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas » Show #1: Hyperion
I enjoyed the first Deryni trilogy, thought that the King Kelson trilogy was okay, but the next batch didn’t hold my interest, so I stopped reading any of the subsequent Deryni tales.
I haven’t read those, but a long time ago I read her Faded Sun trilogy… might be time for a reread of those (when I have time!)
FYI, the Faded Sun trilogy was recently reprinted in an omnibus edition… all three books collected as one.
www.kickassmysticninjas.com /2005/10/16/show-1-hyperion   (1600 words)

  
 Series Information: Faded Sun :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
Series Information: Faded Sun :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
While the Kel were professionals who took pride in meeting the challenge of one-to-one combat, humans were mass fighters, incapable of understanding any form of warfare except their own: total destruction.
Faded Sun Trilogy, the (2000) by C.J. Cherryh
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 Jessie Tharp's Timeline
The FADED SUN trilogy takes place after the Alliance-Sharrh wars.
Union figures only slightly in this war as the area of conflict lay on the Alliance border away from Unionside.
The Mri of the FADED SUN trilogy do not experience this disorientation and teach Sten Duncan to go through jump.
www.perrochon.com /cherryh/ref/books.html   (1081 words)

  
 C J Cherryh books - Science-Fiction & Fantasy forums
The importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward.
Well, maybe those alien species are always too humanoid in form- personally I suspect that the real aliens would be too *alien* to comprehend, but ie in the Chanur novels we have 3 methane- breathing and completely crazy species in addition to the 4 species of oxy breathers, the *sane* ones.
But when finally we have a description of Phoenix' spaceflight, it seems that the author's altered the theory of spaceflight she has been using in all of her previous books, and so this can't be the same universe...
www.chronicles-network.com /forum/7026-c-j-cherryh-books.html   (3845 words)

  
 DnL Forums - Kel`en   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Kel`en was created by my gaming friends and I. We are veterans of many other MMORPGs, including but not limited to: EverQuest, Dark Ages of Camelot, Star Wars: Galaxies, and Lineage 2.
Kel`en is inspired by the Faded Sun trilogy written by C.J. Cherryh, and broadened by influences of Japanese culture.
This means you will not have to actively play with or against any of our members to join.
www.darkandlight.net /forums/clans.php?do=view&clanid=76   (280 words)

  
 C. J. Cherryh - Summary Bibliography (Long Works)
The Faded Sun: Kesrith (Part 1 of 4) (1978)
The Faded Sun: Kesrith (Part 2 of 4) (1978)
The Faded Sun: Kesrith (Part 3 of 4) (1978)
www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?C._J._Cherryh   (166 words)

  
 Ian Cleary's Writings
The Faded Sun Trilogy by C. Cherryh: a review
C. Cherryh has been one of my favourite science fiction authors for some time, but I was truly surprised by this trilogy.
I can't remember being so totally immersed in a work of fiction (with the exception of Harry Potter of course).
www.ualberta.ca /~icleary/writing.html   (637 words)

  
 corinths   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The second book is Silver Hand and is the best of the trilogy in my opinion.
This Trilogy contains the books Kesrith, Shon'jir, and Kutath written back in the late 70's and brought together in one volume by DAW books in 2000.
So enjoy and if there is a book you'd like to recommend or flame, just e-mail me with the info.
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 Bridegroom Press - Articles - Culture Wars - The Faded Sun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Top » Catalog » Culture Wars » The Faded Sun
Twenty years ago, C. Cherryh wrote a series of science fiction books, the Faded Sun trilogy.
In it, she introduced beings called the regul — cannibalistic frog-like creatures who brought forth the best in their race by ritually chasing down and eating their own children.
bridegroompress.com /catalog/article_info.php?articles_id=84   (1109 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Morgaine Saga (Daw Book Collectors): Books: C. J. Cherryh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Sword-and-sorcery meets hard sci-fi in C.J. Cherryh's epic story of a woman's mission across time and space to preserve the integrity of the universe.
the simple plots of the books are always fascinating and eventually the pair of wanderers pass on to unforseeble ends, wich i think is the masterstroke of the first trilogy (and even of the fourth book, "exile's gate").
That's the trilogy by Piers Anthony starting with Sos the Rope, and followed by Val the Stick and Neq the Sword.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0886778778?v=glance   (2217 words)

  
 Untitled Writers' Group
THE RETURN OF THE KING, by J.R.R. Tolkien -- The whole Fellowship trilogy pretty much saved my life as a young teenager, this one in particular.
FADED SUN TRILOGY, by C. Cherryh (science fiction) I adore these books.
THE HOUND AND THE FALCON TRILOGY and ALAMUT by Judith Tarr -- Judith Tarr is another very fine writer who seldom disappoints.
leutheuser.com /writing/favoritebooks.html   (530 words)

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