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Author:	C. J. Cherryh
Title:	The Pride Of Chanur
Publisher:	Phantasia Press
Country:	USA
Date:	1987
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	093209645X
Total Editions:	6
First Published:	1982
Rating:	10.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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phantasia press, inc.
5536 crispin way,
west bloomfield, michigan (usa)

copyright © 1981, 1982 by c. j. cherryh
this revised edition and introduction © 1987 by c. j. cherryh

limited edition of 1,200 copies,
350 of which numbered and signed by the author, and distributed boxed.

printed on acid-free paper and smythe-sewn in reinforced binding

216pp including 8 unpaginated pp. titles, indica, 2pp introduction by c. j.; 2 end pp: 1p. statement of limitation of edition, 1p. blank.
bound with apple green end-papers between apple green cloth-covered boards. issued with full-colour printed paper dust-jacket.
cover art (dust-jacket) by david a. cherry (rear flap d-j)
cover price $17.00 (special edition $40.00) (front flap d-j)

#1 in the chanur sequence.

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C. J. Cherryh - The Pride Of Chanur - Daw - Paperback - USA - 0879976942 (1982)

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ppint. 12th Sep 2018		Rated 10/10 set in an arm of a galaxy containing at least seven mutually alien space-faring species that may have evolved from obligate carnivore stalkers like the hani, who don't generally go looking for a fight - but can really enjoy one if it comes to them; or from pack cursorial hunters, who delight in long distance chases, and happily pile in en masse upon the slightest provocation or excuse, drawing no distinctions between trade, piracy and war; or from herd herbivores, who have to be at least slightly mad by their own species' standards, to have any direct dealings with carnivores, no matter how intelligent and civilised they may be, so who must employ members of one such species or another to defend them from the other races more or less unreliably in the trade compact - and cannot trust them, even then. . . in this setting, where mutually alien space-faring species meet mostly at trading stations in space, at a station controlled by the herbivore s'stsho, p'yanfar chanur, a trader captain of the most-recently space-faring species, and in most ways the weakest, with but their home planet to their name, who would quite like her crew to finish the loading and unloading of cargo and get on with the job of making a - reasonably honest - profit for their clan, learns that a hunter-killer ship of the kif, a culture that draws no distinctions between trade, piracy and war, is at the same station - so she'd like to finish and get away as soon as possible now. . . - when something they've never seen or heard the like of before on previous journeys succeeds in running onto their ship, and tries to hide. it's definitely intelligent, seems to be sapient, and it could be a member of a new space-faring species - which might upset the uneasy balance of power between the races of the compact, such as it is - if it's a space-faring species - but they can't understand it, it's almost naked, it's filthy and frightened. . . - and the captain of the kiffish hunter-killer ship contacts her and demands his escaped pet, his property, back now - "or else. . ." (and as a minor, almost completely trivial and irrelevant detail, it happens to be a human being.) . . this is just the set-up for one of the best adventure sf novels i have ever read. . after this, things start happening (!) - and they barely stop for breath as p'yanfar chanur and her crew - and ''tully'' - have to find out what is happening, and who to trust, all the while they are under pressure to take decisions fast, knowing they don't know enough to be sure they're making the right choices, but knowing they have to make those decisions now, if they're going to live - and if they're going to have a chance of letting their own clan and species' leaders know what they've found. once, that is, they know what they've found. . . . . and if you like this - and if you like adventure sf, it's almost unimaginable that you won't° - there's a very substantial sequel to look forward to - once you've recovered from how "the pride of chanur" ends. . . . . ° - "almost": some guys can't cope with a female captain(!) - even though she's a female of an alien species; and seemingly some readers simply can't adjust to knowing no more than particular viewpoint characters themselves know, at the time they have to jump, one way or another. . . 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 9th Sep 2018		the chanur sequence #1: (set in the same universe as the novels of the earth company fleet, the company wars, union, the merchanter alliance, ''downbelow station'' and ''cyteen'', but almost entirely separate from these:) #1: "the pride of chanur" (1982) (first edition of this book, sans revisions & introduction) #2a: "chanur's venture" (1984), q.v. #2b: "the kif strike back" (1985), q.v. #2c: "chanur's homecoming" (1986), q.v. #3: "chanur's legacy" (1992), q.v. #2a, b & c are three parts of one novel, the direct sequel to #1, and not complete works by themselves. #2 (as a whole) and #3 would be readable as stand-alone novels, but each is greatly informed by earlier events, including the fine detail of personal development of major characters, and the relationships between them, including difficulties of understanding communications and different species' modes of thought, and instincts, inter-species friendships and same-species rivalries - and enmities. political developments within the trade compact and the internal politics of each of the major species, including those triggered by the novels' protagonists, cause major changes in the circumstances within which they take decisions affecting one anothers' thoughts and actions. n.b. #3, "chanur's legacy" is *not* "the third of the p'yanfar chanur trilogy": it follows p'yanfar chanur's niece hilfy, now captain on the new chanur ship with pyanfar's old crew, and follows their rather jagged progress through various alien species' spaces. . . - including that of the kif, one particular hakkit of whom once imprisoned and ''questioned'' her. . . omnibus editions: #1, #2a, & #2b: #O1: "the chanur saga" (2000), q.v. #2c, &#3: #O2: "chanur's endgame" (2007), q.v.

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