Cyteen
by C.J. Cherryh
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Author: C.J. CherryhEdition: Paperback
Published: 1995-09-01
ISBN: 0446671274
Number of pages: 696
Publisher: Aspect
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Book Review: A masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Who killed Ariane Emory? CJ Cherryh has set many novels in her Alliance-Union universe, most with themes that go well beyond the adventure stories being told. Cyteen draws all those themes together. In this dazzling epic Cherryh shows that whole universe -- by telling the story of a woman larger than all of it. Ariane's planet specializes in the production of azi, artificially grown humans with artificial mental programming -- and she's the greatest programmer in history, the Psychmaster. She and her fellow azi producers run the planet through a web of intrigues worthy of the Chinese Imperial court. Ariane is well aware of the moral ambiguities of her profession, as her colleagues are not. That makes her essential to her planet and she knows it. And then she's murdered, leaving vital work unfinished, work only the Psychmaster can do. Her colleagues (one of whom may have killed her) clone her and embark on an eighteen-year program to re-create Ariane Emory, duplicating not only her genes but her upbringing to reproduce the woman they knew. They succeed -- far better than they had intended. Ariane II is a child and they think they can control her. But Ariane II is nobody's pawn.
The story of Ariane growing to adulthood is fascinating -- she has to survive the same maze of intrigues and motives that killed her predecessor. The backstory of her society that is played out behind is even more interesting. Ariane I at first seems a cold and sadistic tyrant; over time we learn (and her successor learns) that she was far more complex than that.
Who killed her, and why? The answer's there. It will surprise you.
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Genetic manipulation, murder, intrigue and politics are just part of the story of a young scientist in this substantial book. C. J. Cherryh, who won the 1989 Hugo Award for this novel, following on her Hugo Award-winning Downbelow Station, offers another ambitious work. A geneticist is murdered by an adviser, but the scientist is replicated in the lab, leaving a prodigy who attempts to chart a different fate. The book is intense and complex yet always presented with the flow of true storytelling.Genetic manipulation, murder, intrigue and politics are just part of the story of a young scientist in this substantial book. C. J. Cherryh, who won the 1989 Hugo Award for this novel, following on her Hugo Award-winning Downbelow Station, offers another ambitious work.A geneticist is murdered by an adviser, but the scientist is replicated in the lab, leaving a prodigy who attempts to chart a different fate. The book is intense and complex yet always presented with the flow of true storytelling.
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