message 0078

• Wishlist of C.J. Cherryh books
• The Connection between Union/Ariane Emory and the Morgaine books

>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant>
>Subject: Re: C. J. Cherryh List
>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 9:43:58 GMT

> >From: nancy ott <ott@ansoft.com>
> I'd like to see the tie-in between the Union/Alliance novels and the
> Morgaine novels worked into a Cyteen sequel.  I heard a rumor that Ari
> Emory 2 is supposed to be the one who launched the strike force to
> destroy the Qhal Gates.  Which makes sense, since she's the only
> person in Union who is (a) intelligent enough to look beyond their
> immediate potential and see their danger, and (b) powerful enough to
> keep idiots in the Union military and government from using them.
> However, it would be a stretch even for Cherryh to pull this off!

	Have people read the graphic novel adaptaion of the first
Morgaine book? (well, at least the first 2/3 of the first book -- the
3rd part never seems to have been done). These were done with a lot
of input from Cherryh. The 'preface' deals with Union's discovery of
the Gates, along with an explanatory plaque in 12th century Russian.
This plaque tells of the qhal's little genetic experiments, at which
point one of the Union archaeologists makes the crack 'Emory got 
everywhere, didn't she?' Now these books came out long before Cyteen,
and Cyteen didn't contain any information about the qhal, so I think
that 1) if an emory is involved with the gates, it must indeed be Ari2,
and 2) Cherryh may indeed have more material involving Emory/Reseune/Cyteen
in the works. [I was exceedingly puzzled by the reference to Emory, as at
that stage I think she had only appeared waaay off-stage in _Downbelow
Station_ as the author of the statement 'If Earth didn't exist we'd have
to invent it'. The statement in the graphic novel indicates to me that
cherryh already had the Gehenna situation worked out (and Gehenna's true
raison d'etre didn't appear until _Cyteen_), and that by the time of the
discovery of the Gates, the Gehenna-plot is common knowledge to Union
citizens -- quite possibly another Union novel would explore all this].

> >From: Jo Jaquinta <jaymin>
> 	Her latest Compact book was fairly light-hearted and humourous.
> She could carry on this vein and follow the adventurs of Haisi. Yes!
> the "Inspector Cluseau" of the Mahendosat Secret Service. As he tools 
> around the Compact trying to ingratiate himself to the kif, provoking
> t'ca to parenthood, and accidentally proposing to a knnn. I am sure
> Haisi and his bumbling, but good natured first mate, would make an
> entertaining book.

	Eek! Save me from more exposure to Haisi! I don't know if he'd
be so amusing if we got the story from his point of view. Now, if she
could work it so we got the effects of Haisi's adventures from others'
povs, that could be quite funny. But still, the idea of a classic
detective pair is suddenly beginning to charm me Haisi and 1st mate as
who, though? Holmes and Watson? Morse and Lewis? Starsky and Hutch (probably
most appropriate)?

> 	On the extreme opposite end of the spectrum I WANT TO KNOW WHAT
> HAPPEND TO THE FLEET. I don't hold truck with the idea that they just fade
> away into nothingness. Certainly given the subjective time dilation
> of jumping they are still going to be around for a while. It would certainly
> be a dark, depressing and throughly wonderful book about their decline
> and last stand.

	Sniff. One last final battle before the darkness. Tragic. Heroic.
Quite, quite Mazian.
	["Tom, I want you to jump into the middle of the Union fleet, cycle
the vanes, and self-destruct"
	"But, Conrad --"
	"-- For me, Tom"]

			Lesley