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• Which C.J. Cherryh book have you read first? Good Choice?

>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant@maths.tcd.ie>
>Subject: cherryhlist -- first time readers? 
>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 93 8:29:15 BST

Now that we've all recovered from the weekend, i thought I'd ask what
everyone's first-read book by Cherryh was, and was it really something
accessible to someone who hadn't read her before?  I first read _Brothers
of Earth_. It didn't make me want to rush out and buy every book of hers I
could find though, and when I'd read more, it sort of puzzled me as to
where/when the action was taking place (Union/Alliance is there sort of, but
in a hazy, primitive sort of way -- Alliance is named, but the 'baddies',
the Hanan, although integrated into the chronology as an Alliance group
that splinters away in 3187 [back of _Angel with the Sword_], appear to
'really' be the precursors in Cherryh's mind of the stereotypical Union
army).
	I think this was probably a bad choice to start off with. It was
about 2 years later that I actually read another book by her (not that
they were available here, anyhow). The next one I read was the "Chronicles
of Morgaine" series, and after that there was no stopping me.

				Lesley