Wave Without a Shore

Book Details

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Author(s):

C J Cherryh

First Pub:

1981

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

31 chapters

Internal ID:

13780

Series:

<- Serpent's Reach - The Scapegoat ->

Era of Rapprochement*

#2 of 3

Era of Rapprochement*

A science fiction series by C J Cherryh.

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1) Serpent's Reach
2) Wave Without a Shore
3) The Scapegoat

Alliance-Union Universe

#24 of 27

Alliance-Union Universe

A collection of novels written by C.J. Cherryh which all take place in the same universe though some are very loosely connected. The order of these is from isfdb.org even though I normally like to order them by publication date. Since this mega-series encompasses so many other series, I've used this method instead.

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1) Alliance Rising
2) Downbelow Station
3) Merchanter's Luck
4) Rimrunners
5) Heavy Time
6) Hellburner
7) Tripoint
8) Finity's End
9) The Pride of Chanur
10) Chanur's Venture
11) The Kif Strike Back
12) Chanur's Homecoming
13) Chanur's Legacy
14) Forty Thousand in Gehenna
15) Cyteen
16) Regenesis
17) Port Eternity
18) Voyager in Night
19) Cuckoo's Egg
20) Kesrith
21) Shon'jir
22) Kutath
23) Serpent's Reach
24) Wave Without a Shore
25) The Scapegoat
26) Brothers of Earth
27) Hunter of Worlds

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

Freedom was one of those places honest ships avoided, a pleasant world of a pleasant star, but lacking a station at which ships could dock, and by reason of its location on the limb's sparse edge, inconvenient for ships on fixed schedules.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Herrin left him there, walked away with Sbi and the others, trusting that Waden would follow, in his own time.

Comments:

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Added: 18-Dec-2023

Last Updated: 18-Dec-2023

Publications

18-Dec-2023

DAW Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

18-Dec-2023

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.25

Pages*:

176

Catalog ID:

UE1646

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

33420

Publisher:

DAW Books

ISBN:

0-879-97646-2

ISBN-13:

978-0-879-97646-0

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Don Maitz - Cover Artist

C.J. CHERRYH

Freedom was an isolated planet, off the spaceways track and rarely visited by commercial spacers. It wasn't that Freedom was inhospitable as planets go. The problem was that outsiders - tourists and traders - claimed the streets were crowded with mysterious characters in blue robes and with members of an alien species.

Native-born humans, however, said that was not the case. There were no such blue-robes and no aliens.

Such was the viewpoint of both Herrin the artist and Waden the autocrat - until a crisis of planetary identity forced a life-and-depth confrontation between the question of reality and the reality of the question....

A different sort of interplanetary novel by the author of DOWNBELOW STATION and THE FADED SUN.

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Printing, August 1981
First printing based on the number line

Author(s)

C J Cherryh
Birth: 01 Sep 1942 St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Awards

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I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
Synopses marked with an asterisk (*) were generated by an AI. There aren't a lot since this is an iffy way to do it - AI seems to make stuff up.
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When listing chapters, I only list chapters relevant to the story. I will usually leave off Author Notes, Indices, Acknowledgements, etc unless they are relevant to the story or the book is non-fiction.
Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.