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Author:	C. J. Cherryh
Title:	Chanur's Legacy
Publisher:	Daw
Country:	USA
Date:	Aug 1992
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Society
ISBN-10:	0886775191
Barcode:	9780886775193
Total Editions:	3
Rating:	10.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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daw books, inc.
375 hudson street, new york, ny 10014 (usa)
donald a. wollheim, founder
elizabeth r. wollheim
sheila e. gilbert
publishers

copyright © 1992 by c. j. cherryh
map of compact space by david cherry

first edition, first printing, august 1992

400pp: 10 unnumbered including: titles, indica, map, etc; 386pp numbered; 4 unpaginated end blank pp.
quarter-bound with light purple end-papers in purple cloth between purple paper-covered boards. issued with full colour-printed paper dust-jacket.
cover art (dust-jacket) by michael whelan (rear flap d-j)
cover price u.s $20.00 (can $24.99);
until september 30th u.s. $15.00 (can $18.99) (front flap d-j)

no daw cat#; distributed by penguin u.s.a.
almost-meaningless daw book collectors no. 886

#3 in the chanur sequence.

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ppint. 17th Sep 2018		Rated 10/10 this is not "the third p'yanfar chanur novel" - though it does feature "the pride", at some remove, and characters we met earlier - assuming you also've read the first two novels in the chanur sequence - hilfy chanur par faha is now the captain of the clan's newest trader, chanur's legacy, and most of her aunt's crew she's not exactly inherited - they've chosen to serve with her on the legacy, who was once the starstruck, hero-worshipping youngster in awe of p'yanfar, and apprenticed with them - and also her family's favourite daughter - who survived capture and lengthy solitary imprisonment and torture by a hakkkt-captain of the kif, and came through the experience sane - if understandably somewhat unwilling to trust a kif ever in her life again. . . chanur, the clan, has political problems back home where the elders of clans who've not ventured into space mostly cannot comprehend the size, scale, opportunities - or threats - of other space-faring species' civilizations, are jealous of chanur's position, and deeply suspicious of p'yanfar chanur's recognition by at least two species as a major player far more important than they - and doubly so of her leadership of the kif (!) (- for just so long as she's seen to be successful). the chanur clan has invested deeply in their new merchant ship, and in getting permissions and clearances to trade, as well as in hilfy's captaincy, prepared to take the full twelve years they expect for her to clear the debts if necessary; but the chanur clan's finances are stretched - and some see opportunities in this. so when the s'stsho commander of meetpoint station requests the niece of p'yanfar chanur to transport an item of great (cultural? political? religious? all of these?) historical significance to a particular other s'stsho at a station on the edge of kif territory, under conditions of utmost suitability, elegance, propriety and secrecy, and bearing in mind the likely catastrophic consequences to chanur of failure, hilfy's immediate reaction is that this is one opportunity she must not fail to decline. . . until s/he/it (but prob'ly - almost certainly - not "it") mentions the money: it's enough to pay off chanur's debts in their entirety! hilfy, trained and experienced at interpretation from the languages of the main alien species with whom chanur trades, translates the contract, which is of course written entirely in s'stsho and presumes the s'stsho's eye's viewpoint, mind-set and awareness, to the best of her ability and with her senior crew's help and advice, and sufficiently to understand fairly well quite what she's taking on, including the liabilities and penalty clauses; but there remain many grey areas where the full implications are not immediately obvious, especially implications that may, or may not apply in convolutedly complicated circumstances, many of which are both inter-dependent and mutually exclusive of one another, and some whose significance concerns the specific s'stsho person to whom the precious artistic object of great cultural, religious(?) and historical significance is to be delivered in - and *only* in - person. more - much more - follows this set-up of an extremely fine sf adventure, in the course of which hilfy and her crew discover an awful lot more of s'stsho personal, as well as political life, and the implications of both, including of import to and with impact upon their species', as well as their clan's position and reputation within the trade compact space; and more about the reliability of their mahendo sat allies (or is it "allies" ?) and sometimes rivals; and even about the kif, of whom hilfy was probably already the most knowledgeable in certain ways, but regarding which she possesses no desire whatsoever to increase her knowledge via any further personal contact, having been the prisoner of one kif pack leader for all too long, and experienced torture at his hands. . . this is a book that bears re-reading, and after thinking on, and re-re-reading, and thinking on yet again: and whilst the bones of the adventure story's plot may appear to be based upon the structure of a classic circular joke, or poem, or song, or epic saga, it's one that could come to bite clan chanur very, very hard, if hilfy and her crew don't deliver on the contract and their clan's word. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 11th Sep 2018		#3 in the chanur sequence: #1: "the pride of chanur" (1982), q.v. for full listing of sequence titles and links. i do not know whether penguin u.s.a.'s computer - or anyone else's - was in fact adjusted after september 1982 (or any other date) to bill bookshops at the higher printed cover price°. (° - less trade discount).



ppint. 26th Nov 2022		doubleday science fiction book club h/cvr first printing, not first edition, for sale only to members of the doubleday science fiction book club (and later to members of other doubleday book clubs), not for sale to the general public nor to be distributed by way of trade to bookshops nor other retailers, nor via e.g. news wholesalers. confusingly this bookclub edition retains much of the indica identifying the daw books, inc. h/cvr first edition, and its smaller format mayn't be obvious without having the first edition conveniently to hand, with which to make the comparison; it may be distinguished from this in a number of other ways: cover (d-j) art by michael whelan (signed with his stylised m/w symbol, credited on d-j back flap) b+w frontispiece map of compact space by david a. cherry (unsigned, bears a symbol, credited) no printing number stated in publishing history, no printing number line cover (d-j) price (none) 400pp. including ten unnumbered pp. titles, map, indica etc, 4 blank end pp., quarter bound with endpapers in black cloth between darkish red paper-covered boards, title, author and rather blotchy daw logo in white on spine d-j bears sfbc cat# 02299 on rear in right-hand corner, isbn & bar-code number in vertical block on rear in left-hand corner; d-j surface does not have the high-gloss finish of the daw books first edition h/cvr's d-j. (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 25th Sep 2022		daw books mmpb simultaneous first printings sharing merkin-printed covers, first p/b edition cover art by michael whelan (signed with monogram, retained from daw books h/cvr first edition d-j) b+w map of compact space by david a. cherry (credited 1984 and on its reuses since) near-meaningless daw books collector no. 886 cover price (canada $5.99) • u.s. $4.99 424pp? (check) including titles, indica etc, end pp. advertising refer to indica publishing history to see if carcass of copy held was canadian- or merkin- printed; canadadian-carcassed copies' printing number line drops the digit ''1'' from the printing number line, establishing them as officially the second printing, though no priority in date of publication established, nor liable to be. further (undated) printings progressively drop further digits from the printing number line; cover price(s) also begin to rise with/by the undated fifth printing: undated daw books mmpb third printing bearing same isbn, cat#, cover art etc: cover price ($5.99 canada) • u.s. $4.99 ... ... daw books fifth mmpb printing bearing same isbn, cat#, cover art etc: cover price $6.99, $9.99 canada (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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C. J. Cherryh - Chanur's Legacy - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0886775590 (1993)

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C. J. Cherryh - Chanur's Legacy - Daw Books / Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club - Hardcover - USA - 0886775191 (1992)