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1) Explorer
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"The sixth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… It has been nearly ten years since the starship Phoenix returned to Alpha, the station orbiting the world of the atevi, which had been abandoned following a rift between a faction of the station's inhabitants and the spacers' Pilot's Guild. The unexpected return of the Phoenix has forever changed the lives of both atevi and...
2) Hellburner
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Ben Pollard thinks he's traded the perils of the Belt for security as an Earth-based computer jockey for United Defence Command. Then he's forced to perform a mission of mercy - and lands on an isolated, intrigue-riddled space station. In Hellburner, her newest novel, Hugo Award winner C. J. Cherryh returns to the best-selling universe of Heavy Time, Cyteen, and Downbelow Station, and creates a story of multi-global conspiracy, power politics,...
Author
Series
Alliance/Union series. Company wars volume 3
DAW book collectors volume no. 420
Alliance-Union universe
DAW book collectors volume no. 420
Alliance-Union universe
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
"Pell's Station, orbiting the alien world simply called Downbelow, had always managed to remain neutral in the ever escalating conflict between "The Company," whose fleets from Earth had colonized space, and its increasingly independent and rebellious colony worlds. But Pell's location,on the outer edge of Earth's defensive perimeter, makes her the focal point in the titanic battle of colony worlds fighting for independence."--Amazon
6) Precursor
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
On a planet inhabited by humans and aliens, preparations are underway to resist an invasion from outside. The hero is diplomat Bren Cameron, whose skills as a translator have maintained harmony between humans and aliens.
7) Pretender
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission to a distant sector of space, and with resources strained by four thousand extra mouths to feed, the crew of the starship Phoenix yearns for the luxuries of home. But when the ship makes the final jump into atevi space, they learn the worst: supplies to their home station have been cut off; civil war has broken out on the atevi mainland; the powerful Western Association has been overthrown; and Tabini-aiji...
9) Rimrunners
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Martin is stranded on Thule Station without papers and signs on to Loki, a vessel being used as bait to attack the Freebooters. She becomes caught between two factions struggling for control of the vessel
10) Conspirator
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Cajeiri, the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association, has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father's rule. For Cajeiri is the first "ateva" youth to have lived in a human environment and the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similar--yet so dangerously different--aliens who share his home planet and threaten the hidebound customs of his race.
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins. Ross and Fallon, crew members of the Galway, believe...
12) Deliverer
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While the world of the atevi fragments into two antagonistic political camps, eight-year-old Cajeiri, the heir of Tabini-aiji--and the first atevi to have an understanding of the humans--becomes a target for those who oppose his father's rule.
13) Destroyer
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
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, the Phoenix is almost home, having successfully rescued the stranded colonists through the combined negotiating talents of Bren Cameron-brilliant human paidhi to the atevi court, currently representing Tabini-aiji, the atevi ruler-and of Tabini's...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Convergence marks a new phase in the Foreigner Universe: knowledge about the dangerous situation in adjacent space rests only with Bren Cameron, the human diplomat to the alien court of the atevi, four starship captains, and the two chiefs of stateboth the human and the atevi, who share the planet. Bren is obliged to carry the just-signed treaty to the human government on an island some forty miles off the shores of the atevi-ruled megacontinent,...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Now in mass market, the twentieth book in the beloved 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. But Ilisidi, the dowager, has been known to borrow his services from time to timeand she has her own notions how to solve the simmering hostilities in the south...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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 relocated down to the planet, and soon. But not to the atevi mainland: rather to the territory reserved for human, the island of Mospheira. Tabini-aiji, the powerful political head of the atevi, tasks his...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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 restoration, have prompted major changes in the Assassins' Guild, which has since worked to root out its seditious elements--a clandestine group they call the Shadow Guild. With the Assassins now rid of internal...
19) Peacemaker
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"At last--Cajeiri has his young guests from the starship, three young folk entranced by weather and trees and creatures with minds of their own. It's all he dreamed of...But now safety is foremost: Cajeiri's grandfather has been assassinated, hostile Assassins Guild invaded Great-uncle's house, and now Bren Cameron, paidhi-aiji, who was sent to keep the aiji's son safe, has more than the young guests on his mind. The aiji-dowager knows who's to blame...
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