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...

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 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 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel about a space station caught in the crosshairs of an interstellar war—perfect for fans of space opera and military science fiction!“A hell of a story.” —io9The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The...

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...

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 fifth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…Nearly ten years after the unexpected return of the starship Phoenix, the alien atevi have three functioning space shuttles, and teams of atevi engineers labor in orbit to renovate the space station. But these monumental advances not only add a dangerously powerful third party to an already precarious diplomatic ...

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 twenty-first book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron, advisor to the atevi head of state.The overthrow of the atevi head of state, Tabini-aiji, and the several moves of enemies even since his restoration, have prompted major changes in the Assassins' Guild, which has since worked to root out its seditious elements—a clandestine group they call the Shadow Guild. With the Assassins now rid of internal corruption, with ...

The seventeenth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…The human and atevi inhabitants of Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship telling them that the ship is inbound toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from the now derelict Reunion Station. They have seen this scenar...