Downbelow Station (Thorndike Mini-Collections) - Hardcover

Cherryh, C.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410476065 ISBN 13: 9781410476067

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2015

Synopsis

A New York Times Bestselling Author Winner of the Hugo Award A legend among sci-fi readers, C.J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete in themselves, are part of a much larger tapestry-a future history spanning 5,000 years of human civilization. Downbelow Station is the book that won Cherryh a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1982. A blockbuster space opera of the rebellion between Earth and its far-flung colonies, it is a classic science fiction masterwork.

About this title

About the Author

I've written sf and fantasy for publication since 1975...but I've written a lot longer than that. I have a background in Mediterranean archaeology, Latin, Greek, that sort of thing; my hobbies are travel, photography, planetary geology, physics, pond-building for koi...I run a marine tank, can plumb most anything, and I figure-skate.

I believe in the future: I'm an optimist for good reason---I've studied a lot of history, in which, yes, there is climate change, and our species has been through it. We've never faced it fully armed with what we now know, and if we play our cards right, we'll use it as a technological springboard and carry on in very interesting ways.

Review

Praise for Downbelow Station:

Winner of the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel

"Cherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization and war." —Questar

"Full of imagination, action, and understandable, sympathetic characters...." —Analog 

“The well-drawn variety of backgrounds and motivations of the characters is the work’s strength.” —VOYA
 
“A solid, vividly realized background; excellent characterization of humans and aliens; and an ability to keep a story moving... Intelligent space adventure, conceived and executed on a grand scale.” —Booklist
 
“Downbelow Station is a fascinating, complex deep-space-war political novel with a lot of subtle twists.” —Fantasiae
 

Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410476065
• ISBN 13: 9781410476067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 769