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| | Reviews of Foreigner (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner is subtitled "A novel of first contact." Humans have lived alongside the Atevi for centuries (involuntarily, after their ship went astray), and they're still at the first-contact stage, trying to understand them. |
 | | Her Chanur novels, for example, are set in a Compact of space-faring species, some of which can barely communicate with others, and they combine interesting stories with thought-provoking backgrounds. |
 | | In Foreigner, Cherryh focuses upon the problem of understanding the alien at the expense of the story, and it doesn't work very well. |
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