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Downbelow Station
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| Author: |
C. J. Cherryh |
| Publisher: |
DAW Books, 1981 |
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| Awards: |
1982 Hugo Winner 1982 Locus SF Nominated |
| Lists: |
Locus Best SF Novels of All-Time |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Space Exploration Military SF Hard SF |
| Member Rating: |
   (17 reads / 14 ratings)
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Synopsis
The station at Pell's Star, traditionally neutral, holds the key to victory in a struggle between the decaying stellar empire of Earth and the rebel forces of the colonies.
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- The Wertzone: Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh
Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh. AD 2352. Humanity is divided into two factions, the Company which rules over Earth and the Sol system, and the Union, which rules over the outer colonies and worlds. In between are a narrow band of ... - Marooned - The Serial “Rereader”
There's a handful of C.J. Cherryh books in the Company Wars series that I've read a number of times, including Downbelow Station, Rimrunners and especially Heavy Time and Hellburner. These are some of the best sci-fi books around, ... - C. J. Cherryh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia_3 | 37mbtschuhe477
... 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and ... - Formidable Female Protagonists in Science Fiction Part 14
Universe: Union-Alliance Author: CJ Cherryh Genre: Space Opera Publisher: Daw. Captain Signy Malloy is one of the principal characters in Downbelow Station. She is the captain of Norway and third in command of the Company Fleet in ... - 1982 Hugo - DOWNBELOW STATION by CJ Cherryh
Either way, Downbelow Station is a well-executed novel that still left me cold. I'm still looking forward to Cyteen though. By the way, CJ Cherryh is really Carolyn Cherry. Like JK Rowling, she used her initials to disguise her gender, ... - Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / The best ...
The Chanur books are Cherryh progressing from the earlier Alliance/Union books and taking the ideas of Downbelow Station and making them better. There's less padding in these, no characters you don't care for or slow parts away from the ... It's been a long time since I've read this one; I'll just say briefly that it is the only one of C.J. Cherryh's books I've read that I really enjoyed. A long time ago I concluded that Cherryh was not for me, after reading this one and ... - Sci-fi References
|A planet from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downbelow_Station "Downbelow Station"] by CJ Cherryh. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5 "Babylon 5" series] also references this name. ... - Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Grimmer than ...
C.J. Cherryh is one of my favourite writers. She's very versatile and extremely prolific—she's written science fiction and fantasy in many different worlds and styles. Gate of Ivrel (1976), Well of Shiuan (1978), Fires of Azeroth (1979 and Exile's Gate (1988) have ..... Also the Alliance/Union books, which can be started just about anywhere. I read them in random order as I came across them. Downbelow Station wasn't my cup of tea, but I thoroughly enjoyed all the others. ... - Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Treachery to ...
Treachery to species: C.J. Cherryh's Chanur Trilogy. Jo Walton · The Pride of Chanur is an introduction to the universe and a introduction to the characters. For the trilogy, which are all one non-stop story, you're assumed to be confident ..... With most of the Alliance/Union series, it doesn't really matter where you start, but "Downbelow Station" introduces most of the main concepts... She has a lot of good standalones, too--I like "Serpent's Reach", "Cuckoo's Egg", ... - Book Review: Merchanter's Luck, CJ Cherryh, (1982)
The world is complicated (this is a good thing) but to remedy the problem new readers to her Universe need an introduction like the one in her Hugo winning Downbelow Station. This is simply a must! And then, I have to say there is too ...
