Alternate Realities - Softcover

Cherryh, C. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0886779464 ISBN 13: 9780886779467

Publisher: DAW, 2000

Synopsis

In Port Eternity: Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette, and Vivien, and they were made people, clone servants who worked aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea of their origins, from those old storytapes of romance, chivalry, heroism, and betrayal, until a ripple in the space-time continuum sucked The Maid and her crew into a no-man’s-land from which there could be no return, and they were left alone to face a crisis which their ancient prototypes were never designed to master....

In Wave Without a Shore: Freedom was an isolated planet, off the main spaceways and rarely visited by commercial spacers. It wasn’t that Freedom was inhospitable, the problem was that outsiders—tourists and traders—claimed that the streets were crowded with mysterious blue-robed aliens. Native-born humans, however, denied that these aliens existed—until a planetary crisis forced a confrontation between the question of reality and the reality of the question....

In Voyager in Night: Rafe Murray, his sister Jillian, and Jillian’s husband Paul Gaines, like many other out-of-luck spacers, had come to newly-built Endeavor Station to find their future. Their tiny ship, Lindy, had been salvaged from the junk heap, and fitted to mine ore from the mineral-rich rings which circled Endeavor. But their future proved to be far stranger than any of them imagined, when a “collision” with a huge alien vessel provided them with the oddest first contact experience possible!

About this title

About the Author

C. J. Cherryh planned to write since the age of ten. When she was older, she learned to use a typewriter while triple-majoring in Classics, Latin, and Greek. With more than seventy books to her credit, and the winner of three Hugo Awards, she is one of the most prolific and highly respected authors in the science fiction field. Cherryh was recently named a Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. She lives in Washington state. She can be found at cherryh.com.

Review

Port Eternity

"A thoughtful work by an intelligent writer." —The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review
 
 "Marvelous... a finely crafted story." —Voya

Voyager in the Night

"Fascinating... testifies to Cherryh's boldness and flexibility as a novelist." —Locus

"Well-written, intelligent space adventure... an intriguing psychological novel... thoughtful and original characterizations of both humans and aliens, excellent worldbuilding." —The Chicago Sun Times
 
 Wave Without a Shore
 
"This is a thoughtful, engrossing novel." —Publishers Weekly

"Froof that you can be prolific and good... a gem." —The Los Angeles Times

Edition details

• Publisher: DAW
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0886779464
• ISBN 13: 9780886779467
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528