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

>Subject: Cherryh mailing list (cherryhlist)
>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 93 8:59:33 CES
>From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>

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> >From: Lesley Grant <lgrant@maths.tcd.ie>
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> >Date: Wed, 7 Apr 93 9:41:43 BST
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> 	I really don't think that Cherryh's readership is mostly so young.
> In fact, I could see 17-yr-olds not liking her work much at all -- it's
> too introverted, the characters have too many problems, the men are too
> human, the women are too strong (a lot of posts on the net dislike Cherryh
> because the male characters just aren't macho enough for them. I've lost
> count of the men who've told me so in mail), the action (when it finally
> happens) is over too quickly.

When I started reading Cherryh, I must have been 17 years old or younger.
My first books have been the Chanur books (in a german translation), and
I think I enjoyed them because of the interesting aliens (compared to the
usual bug-eyed-monsters) and because of the action (desperate starships
racing from star to star...).
If _Heavy Time_ had been my first Cherryh book, it might have been the
last. Some pages about a rescue in space, then a long time in hospital
and in bars, and at the end some pages of riot and spaceflight. You
have to be older to read it. :-)

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I heard about this mailing list during a discussion
in r.a.sf.written. Some people argued about the sequence
of Union/Alliance books, and for an afternoon I tried to
write the timeline of these books. Some of the books
(_Downbelow Station_, _Hellburner_) give dates for most
of the events, some don't.
Has anybody else tried to do this?
Please reply to Onno.Meyer@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de or
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