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Emergence

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2018
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Copyright © 2018 by C. J. Cherryh
To Jane, as always.
The rainy day in Port Jackson brought a cool breeze from the open balcony doors.
May contain spoilers
Give me a moment."
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Added: 10-Jun-2022
Last Updated: 17-Nov-2023

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 02-Jan-2018
DAW Books
Hardback
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Date Issued:
02-Jan-2018
Format:
Hardback
Cover Price:
$26.00
Pages*:
320
Internal ID:
33365
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-756-41414-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-756-41414-6
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Stanley S Drate - Book Design
G-Force Design - Cover Design
Todd Lockwood  - Cover Artist
Patti Perret - Photographer
Front flap:

EMERGENCE
C. J. CHERRYH


Bren Cameron, acting as the representative of the atevi's political leader, Tabini-aiji, as well as translator between humans and atevi, has undertaken a mission to the human enclave of Mospheira... and both his presence on the island and his absence from the continent have stirred old enemies to realize new opportunities.

Old hatreds.  Old grudges.  Old ambitions.

The situation has strengthened the determination of power-seekers on both sides of the strait.  Bren knows most of them very well.  But not all of them well enough.  The space station on which the world increasingly relies is desperate to get more supplies up to orbit and to get a critical over-supply of human refugees down to the world below.  Rationing is in force on the station, but the overpopulation problem has to be solved quickly - and Bren's mission on Mospheira has expanded to include preparation for that landing.

First down will be the three children to whom Tabini's son has a close connection.  But following them will be thousands of humans who have never set foot on a planet, humans descended from colonists and officers who split off from Mospheiran humans two hundred years before in a bitter parting of the ways.  There is no way the atevi, native to the world, will cede any more land to these new arrivals: they will have to share the island, and certain Mospheirans are willing to use force to prevent these refugees from settling among them.

Bren's job is as general peacemaker - but old enemies want war.  Is Bren's diplomatic acumen enough to prevent a war that both sides are prepared to wage?


Back flap:

With more than seventy books to her credit, and the winner of three Hugo Awards, C. J. Cherryh is' one of the most prolific and highly respected authors in the science fiction field, and has been named a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.  She lives in Washington state.


Back cover:

PRAISE FOR THE FOREIGNER SERIES:


"Cherryh's splendid Foreigner series remains at the top of my must-keep-up reading list after two decades."
- Locus


"One of the best long-running SF series in existence... provides a riveting plot that emphasizes intense human/alien interaction....  Cherryh remains one of the most talented writers in the field." 
- Publishers Weekly


"A seriously probing, thoughtful, intelligent piece of work, with more insight in half a dozen pages than most authors manage in half a hundred."
- Kirkus Reviews


"This is one of the best science fiction series currently running....  By this point, the series has turned into a complicated set of thrillers involving political and factional turmoil, as well as a close and detailed examination of the troubled interactions between human and alien cultures."
- Strange Horizons


"Cherryh plays her strongest suit in this exploration of human/alien contact, producing an incisive study-in-contrast of what it means to be human in a world where trust is nonexistent."
- Library Journal


"[Cherryh] avoids any kind of slump with a quick-moving and immediately engaging plotline, and by balancing satisfying resolutions with plenty of promises and ominous portents that are sure to keep readers' appetites whetted."
- RT Reviews


"Cherryh's forte is her handling of cross-cultural conflicts, which she does by tying her narrative to those things her point-of-view character would know, think, and feel."
- SFRevu
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Notes and Comments:
First Prinmting, January 2018
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Canada: $35.00

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Author(s)

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

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