CUCKOO'S EGG

Cherryh, C. J.

ISBN 10: 0932096344 / ISBN 13: 9780932096340

Published by Phantasia Press, Huntington Hills, MI, 1985

About this Item

Very fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Limited print run of 2,400 copies.} L9.

Seller Inventory # 10986

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CUCKOO'S EGG
• Publisher: Phantasia Press, Huntington Hills, MI
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0932096344
• ISBN 13: 9780932096340
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Literature
  • Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

About this title

Synopsis

Cuckoo's Egg is a novel by science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe. The book was published by DAW Books in 1985, and there was also a limited hardcover printing by Phantasia Press in the same year. The book was nominated for the Hugo Award and longlisted the Locus Award for Best Novel. It was later reprinted along with Cherryh's novel Serpent's Reach in the 2005 omnibus volume The Deep Beyond.

The book introduces the alien Shonunin race, and the plot of the novel concerns a male Shonun raising a human boy.

They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the fighters, the defenders.

Thorn knew that his difference was somehow very important -- but not important enough to prevent murderous conspiracies against him, against his protector, against his caste, and perhaps against the peace of the world. But when the crunch came, when Thorn finally learned what his true role in life was to be, that on him might hang the future of two worlds, then he had to stand alone to justify his very existence.

About the Author

C. J. Cherryh planned to write since the age of ten. When she was older, she learned to use a type writer while triple-majoring in Classics, Latin and Greek. At 33, she signed over her first three books to DAW and has worked with DAW ever since. She can be found at cherryh.com.