C. J. CHERRYH'S
BLOCKBUSTER INTERPLANETARY

Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire and the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies.  Whoever controlled Pell's Downbelow station held the key to Earth's defensive perimeter - or the jumping off point for a Terrestrial offensive to regain the lost empire.

But Pell had always been neutral and was determined to remain so.

This is a powerful, complex and enthralling novel of interstellar conflict and ambitions.  Inrits pages you will meet and strive with the many vivid persons, human and non-human, whose futures would hang on the outcome of that titanic struggle.

C.J. CHERRYH

His name was Sandor and he was the owner and entire crew of a tramp star-freighter that flew the Union planets under false papers and fake names.

Her name was Allison and she was a proud but junior member of the powerful family whose mighty starship, Dublin Again, was the true queen of the spaceways.

They met at Viking Station, she seeking a night's dalliance, he desperately in search of a spacer assistant.

Their fateful meeting was to lead to a record-breaking race to Downbelow Station, thereby catching the calculating eye of the grim commander of the Alliance battlecraft, Norway, and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts.

A supercharged "space opera" by the award-winning author of THE FADED SUN and the "Morgaine" novels.

RIMRUNNERS
In space the line between patriot and pirate is as thin as a laser.  And a lethal battle for power can be as near as your starship's next deck...

THE SPOOK
Loki - mercenary spy ship and bounty hunter.  It's the legal arm of the Merchanters' Alliance; but once enlisted, no crew member leaves Loki alive...

THE SOLDIER
BET YEAGER - a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose side lost.  Now she's forced to escape aboard Loki, surrounded by enemies and hunting her old comrades.  Yeager has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.  A single wrong word can give her away.  And the fighting skills she must use to survive may be her death warrant...

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C.J. CHERRYH
"Shouts with tension... a hard-edged space opera with a strong female protagonist." -San Francisco Chronicle

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"An excellent novel....  One of the finest writers SF has to offer." -Science Fiction Chronicle

Two asteroid miners find a dead, drifting ship - but its pilot, Paul Dekker, is alive, insane from shock, and screaming... screaming clues to a mystery that no one
wants solved...

WHAT IS MAMA HIDING?

Paul Dekker, a kid with a dream, wakes to anightmare.  His ship is stolen, his future destroyed, his beautiful partner missing, his memory gone.  The ASTEX mining monopoly, Mama, accuses Sim, of being negligent, crazy, and foolish, as well as a cold-blooded murderer.  And only a renegade miner, Morris Bird, will help Paul learn the truth.

Because somewhere in Dekker’s mind lies a dark secret that can change the fate of worlds.

"MARVELOUSLY SKILLFUL... exactly the thing her fans will hope to find." -Philadelphia Inquirer

"SUPERBLY RENDERED... believable backdrops, complex characters, and a tense well-paced plot." - Publishers Weekly

"VINTAGE CHERRYH." -Locus

"PACKED WITH INTRIGUE." -Washington Post Bookworld

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Ben Pollard thinks he's traded the perils of the Belt for security on Earth - until he's shanghaied to the orbital Sol II battle station.  There he's forced to help a man Ben never wanted to see again, Jinxed pilot Paul Dekker.

Now Dekker's the center of a lethal mystery, while military, political, and corporate rivals on two worlds conspire to use him and Pollard as lab animaIs in a war for humanity's soul.  And to save themselves, Pollard and Dekker must master and wield the awesome power of Earth's most secret weapon...

HELLBURNER

"Cherryh remains near the top of the field in both world-building and characterization.... In her gifted hands, Merchanter is becoming one of the best-built and most lived-in futures in science fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times

"Cherryh does to the future military establishment what she did to future corporations: gives a close and skeptical look at what it's like to be at the bottom of the pyramid." -Locus

A MAIN SELECTION OF
THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB®

Bestselling author C. J. Cherryh proves once again that SF can be thrilling, knife-edged human adventure.  Set in the complex future of Downbelow Station, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, here is her latest Merchanter adventure...

TRIPOINT

Merchanter Cargo Chief Marie Hawkins has never forgiven the crime, nor sought justice.  Only vengeance.  And, for 23 years, the Hawkins’s clan ship, Sprite, has lived with her vendetta - and with her son, Tom, the boy sired in the violent assault.

Marie’s attacker, Austin Bowe, is captain of the Corinthian.  When both ships dock at Mariner Station, Marie vanishes and Tom searches for his mother... only to find himself trapped on Austin's ship with a half-brother he never knew he had and a crew fanatically loyal to Bowe.  Now as the Corinthian flees the
pursuing Sprite and a raider guns after both, the lives on board the two Merchanter ships are in the hands of Tom Hawkins.  To save them all, Tom must trust his sworn enemy...

His father.

"SUCCEEDS... MAKES THE CONFLICTS AND CHANGES [THE CHARACTERS] EXPERIENCE FEEL VITAL AND REAL."
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMPELLING... SATISFYING."
- Publishers Weekly

A MAIN SELECTION OF THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB®