A magical warrior must once again take up his fearsome sword in the Hugo Award–winning author's epic fantasy series.Conjured by a wizard to fight an ancient and magical war, Tristen is a man without a past, and a warrior of great skill. The keen blade of his sword, marked Illusion on one side and Truth on the other, has already helped him win the throne of Ylesuin for the young king Cefwyn. As reward, Tristen has been made Duke of Amefel.Tri...

This omnibus volume combines two Alliance-Union novels: Hugo Award nominee Cuckoo’s Egg and Locus Best Novel Award nominee Serpent’s Reach.In Cuckoo’s Egg: They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although 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 defenders. Thorn knew his difference was impor...

Bren Cameron is faced with an impossible choice to maintain the balance of power in this second science fiction novel in the classic Foreigner space opera series.Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the atevi, it unexpectedly returns to orbit ovenhead, threatening the stability of both atevi and human governments.With the situation fast b...

The Hugo Award–winning author and SFWA Grand Master delivers the first Gene Wars novel and "a brand-new universe with brand-new rules" ( The San Diego Union Tribune).In this brilliant novel—possibly Cherryh's masterwork—the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet.Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways...

The first in a series of “lively tales of swashbuckling capitalism in space,” featuring a fascinating alien culture based on the social structure of lion prides (Locus)Chaos breaks out when the captain of an all-female alien crew agrees to rescue a human male wanted by their enemy . . .No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-finge...

THE SPACE OPERA CLASSIC: Discover “one of the best long-running science fiction series in existence” (Publishers Weekly)!A sole human diplomat navigates a world inhabited by hostile, intelligent aliens—and learns the consequences of first contact.It had been nearly 5 centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On th...

The thirteenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…Civil war on the world of the atevi is over but diplomatic disputes and political infighting continue unabated. Bren Cameron, brilliant human diplomat allied with the dominant Western Association, has just returned to the capital from his country home. But his sojourn was anything but restful, for Bren and his associates have...

The tenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…The civil war among the alien atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with Cajeiri, his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to Bujavid, their seat of power. But factions that remain loyal to the opposition are still present, and the danger these rebels pos...

Port EternityTheir 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...