Downbelow Station (20th Anniversary) (Daw Book Collectors)
by C. J. Cherryh
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Author: C. J. CherryhEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-12-01
ISBN: 0756400597
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: DAW
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Book Review: Near-classic novel is still fresh
Summary: 5 Stars
Downbelow Station is the first novel in the "Merchanter" cluster -- not a series in the usual sense, but a group of novels set in the same universe and including some overlapping characters. The world it depicts is a harsh and unforgiving one, and C.J. Cherryh's characters are its flawed and very human inhabitants.
One strength of this author's style is the sense she conveys that the reader is being offered a temporary window into the main characters' lives, and that those lives somehow continue on beyond the glimpse we get in the timeline of the novel. Some readers, though, might find the lack of pat endings to be frustrating.
Known for her complex worldbuilding, Cherryh outdid herself with Downbelow Station. The novel deservedly won the Hugo Award in 1982, but it's hard to believe this work is already 26 years old. Like much of Cherryh's other hard S.F. work, it has so far proven to be timeless.
Summary of Downbelow Station (20th Anniversary) (Daw Book Collectors)
A legend among sci-fi readers, C.J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels, while separate and complete in themselves, are part of a much larger tapestry-a future history spanning 5,000 years of human civilization.Downbelow Station is the book that won Cherryh a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1982. A blockbuster space opera of the rebellion between Earth and its far-flung colonies, it is a classic science fiction masterwork.
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