'Compact Space' series

These novels are all set in an area of space where humans are unknown, and the heroines are the lion-like race of the Hani, whose swashbuckling, flamboyant space-farers are all females, and their allies the devious bear-like Mahendo'sat. Other species with whom they trade (warily!) are the weasel-like Kif, the elegant, delicate Stsho and the methane-breathing Knn. Brilliantly realised worlds with real depth.

the Pride of Chanur

C. J. Cherryh / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1991
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Having retrieved an unusual cargo at Meetpoint Station -- a human fugitive -- the Pride of Chanur is now number one on the hit list of every warship this side of Mars. From Chanur's flight from the smoking ruins of Meetpoint to a no-holds-barred, winner-takes-all showdown in the skies above their homeworld, The Pride of Chanur is an engaging and exciting read.

The Pride of Chanur

C. J. Cherryh / Hardcover / Published 1987
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Chanur's Venture
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In the sequel to Pride of Chanur, Tully returns, and brings with him a priceless trade contract with human space--a contract that could mean vast power, riches, and a mess of trouble for Pyanfar Chanur

Chanur's Venture

C.J. Cherryh / Hardcover / Published 1984
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The Kif Strike Back
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When the kif seize Hilfy and Tully, Pyanfar and her shipmates enter into a simple rescue attempt that soon becomes a deadly game of interstellar politics

The Kif Strike Back

C.J. Cherryh / Hardcover / Published 1985
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Chanur's Homecoming

C. J. Cherryh / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1991
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The first human ship arrives in compact space and disturbs the delicate balance of power. The hani find their planet in the direct line of a running space battle and only Pyanfur chanur can save her world.

Chanur's Legacy
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Ten years have passed since the events of Chanur's Homecoming, and Pyanfar's niece Hilfy, now captain of her own vessel, Chanur's Legacy, is caught in a deadly game of interstellar politics.

Chanur's Legacy
(Daw Book Collectors, vol. 886)
~ Ships in 2-3 days C. J. Cherryh / Hardcover / Published 1992
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Cloud's Rider
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The sequel to Rider at the Gate continues as a seamless narrative on the unrivaled partnership forged between human colonists stranded on a planet whose only native life forms are linked by telepathy, and the native nighthorses, who fiercely guard the humans against the planet's mind-clouding predators. The hero of this story is Danny Fisher, a young rider whose will is tested through fateful confrontations with an older rider named Guil Stewart and a miscreant horse, whose incongruous telepathic sendings drive entire villages to madness and death.

Cloud's Rider
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Alliance and Union series

These are set in the far stars, at the end of a long chain of space stations from earth, where planets and stations form two great factions, of the Merchanters Alliance and the Union, supported by the mighty Fleet. Each book can be read on its own, and the time span between them varies. A vast technological civilisation with intricate social mores and interconnections has been realised with great breadth of vision and believable characters.

Downbelow Station
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Pell's Star occupied the central spot in the coming Conflict between Earth's tired stellar empire and the tough onslaught of its rebellious colonies. Whoever controlled Pell's Downbelow station held the key to Earth's defensive preimeter - or the jumping off point for a Terrestrial offensive to regain the lost empire. But Pell had always been neutral and was determined to remain so. This is a powerful, complex and enthralling novel of interstellar conflict and ambitions. In its pages you will meet and strive with the many vivid persons, human and non-human, whose futures would hang on the outcome of that titanic struggle.

Merchanter's Luck
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The fateful meeting between the owner of a tramp star-freighter that flies the Union planets under false papers and fake names and a proud but junior member of a powerful starship-owning family leads to a record-breaking race to Downbelow Station--and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts.

Finity's End
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Finity's End falls after Merchanter's Luck but before Tripoint in the lineup of C.J. Cherryh's Merchanter novels (part of the author's award-winning Alliance/Union universe). It resumes the story of Fletcher Neihart, an orphan and unwanted foster child who, against his will, joins the crew of the legendary merchanter ship Finity's End. As Neihart struggles to find his place both on the ship and in the world, the ship undertakes a mission critical to the continuing peace between the Earth, Alliance, and Union factions.

Finity's End

C.J. Cherryh / Paperback / Published 1998
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Tripoint
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On the merchanter ship Aprite, Thomas Bowe Hawkins is an outcast, a reminder of the long-ago rape of his mother by the captain of a rival ship. For years, his mother Marie has planned revenge against his father. As Thomas tries to stop her, he discovers his half-brother, and finds himself in a deadly confrontation with a dangerous man--his father.

Cyteen
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A psychological novel, a murder mystery and an examination of power on a grand scale, encompassing light years and outsize lifetimes.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. C.J. Cherryh's Cyteen forecast much of what was debated recently when the successful cloning of a mammal was announced. She deftly weaves a complex, multi-character plot that keeps a reader's interest while at the same time providing psychological and physical action that drags the reader through what is admittedly a long text. Published here in one volume, this award-winning novel is one that has the potential to teach us about our future before our future actually arrives. Where Clarke forecast satellites, Cherryh examines the issues surrounding cloning in clinical detail. She does not shy away from the questions of humanity that arise from cloning a human being.

Hellburner
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Pollard and Dekker have joined the fleet in its ongoing corporate war with the political factions of the Earth Company. But forces conspire to use the two as lab animals in a battle for humanity's soul. Now Pollard and Dekker must weild the awesome power of Earth's most secret weapon to save themselves

The Faded Sun trilogy

When the Mri, a proud and noble race of warriors serving as mercenaries in exchange for a planet to call home, confront the human enemies of their employers, they encounter a method of warfare alien to their system of honor. No match for the Mri one to one, despite their similar physiology, the humans fight without honor, driving the Mri to extinction with superior numbers and firepower. Both the humans and the regul - former employers of the Mri whose trade disputes with humans sparked the war in which the Mri were slaughtered - see them as nothing more than professional warriors, the most dangerous killers in the galaxy. They take no prisoners, they have no fear of death, they keep the company of dangerous beasts. And yet there is a deep and powerful truth at the heart of Mri culture, hidden even to the warriors, who are the hand of contact with the outise world. True secrets of Mri culture have never been known to the outside, until one human being makes direct, personal contact. To understand their ways, he will have to become more Mri than human...

Faded Sun: Kesrith
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The Faded Sun : Shon'Jir
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The Faded Sun : Kutath
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The Dreaming Tree :
The Dreamstone, the Tree of Swords and Jewels
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The Dreamstone
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Foreigner
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Foreigner proceeds from the venerable premise of the lost starship whose crew had to land the ship wherever possible. It ended up on a planet whose native race, the atevi, practice--among other interesting habits--registered assassinations. Two centuries after the landing, only one human, the paidhi, is allowed out of the human enclave--and at the opening of the book, he is the object of an unregistered assassination attempt. The subsequent tale is one of those Cherryh novels that is longer on world building, exotic aliens, and characterization than on action, although it is not short on that.

Foreigner
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Invader
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Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the Atevi, it unexpectedly returns to orbit overhead, threatening the stability of both Atevi and human government. This is the sequel to Foreigner

Invader
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C. J. Cherryh / Hardcover / Published 1995
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Inheritor
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The third volume of Cherryh's latest saga, begun by Foreigner (1994) and continued in Invader (1995), commences six months after the human ship Phoenix "discovered" a planet shared by the descendants of marooned human colonists and the nonhuman atevi. The atevi are trying to advance their space program in order to be classified as a developed race; that is, they're involved in one of the classic sf plots, which Cherryh handles as well as her admirers expect of her. While the atevi labor, the planet's humans, the crew of the Phoenix, and the atevi, too, are splitting into factions and creating so many conflicts that a sensible reader could not reasonably expect them all to be resolved this time. They are not, which rather strongly hints at one further installment, at least, in the saga

Inheritor
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The Paladin
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Swordmaster Shoka bids farewell to court intrigue after the death of the old Emperor. Taizu, who is determined to become a swordwoman, seeks out Shoka and begs his help to exact revenge upon the evil tyrant Lord Ghita. Soon, Shoka and Taizu become the stuff of legends.

Rusalka

C. J. Cherryh / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1990
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A beautifully spun web of magic, love and mythology, the story of the girl Rusalka. Steeped in Russian and Baltic folklore, the descriptive passages can only but impress! Unfortunately, The follow-ups, Yvgenie and Chernevog are difficult to get hold of.

The Keltiad

Ms. Kennealy-Morrison has, by placing the story cycle of the Arthurian myths into a "Keltic" star-empire, successfully molded the tales into a space epic of the first order. This first of the cycle follows the young Arthur as he begins to come into his heritage, encountering those folk who will come to mean the most to him in the years ahead. The author successfully captures both the flavor of the myth and the meaning of what it is to BE a "Kelt", so thoroughly as to make the reader feel homesick for a land we see only in these pages. Arranged in distinct trilogies, the keltiad is a projection of the Celtic mythos into the far future. Each trilogy can be read separately.

The Silver Branch

Patricia Kennealy / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1994
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The Silver Branch focuses on the magical and spiritual training of the priestess/warrior queen Aeron. The intricacies of language, combining Gaelic with words of Kennealy's own imagining, add an extra touch of beauty and depth of reality to this extraordinary series opener.

The Copper Crown
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Now, at the beinning of the reign of Aeron, queen of Kelts, Earth has made contact with her long-fled children, and while Earth and Keltia reach out to form an alliance, the fleets of the enemy mobilise....

The Throne of Scone
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Our Price: $4.40 ~ You Save: $1.10 (20%) After a bitter and bloody battle, Queen Aeron's throneworld lies in the hands of the sorceror Juan Akhera, most hated of Keltia's enemies. But although Juan holds Gwydion, Aeron's new-crowned King a hostage in his own palace, the Queen herself has escaped. To regain her throne, she must quest for the legendary treasure of her ancestor, King Arthur.

Hawk's Gray Feather

Patricia Kennealy / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1991
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Taliesin escapes from his father's drowning lands to join the counter-insurgency against the marbh-draoi Edeyrn, in company with his boyhood companions Artos and Gwenniver.

Hawk's Gray Feather :
(The Tales of Arthur, Vol 1)

Patricia Kennealy / Published 1990
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The Chronicles of the Deryni

Deryni Rising (Chronicles of the Deryni, Vol. 1)
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When King Brion is murdered, his brother and confidant, Morgan, must help the young heir ascend to the throne. Suspicions are racked against Morgan due to his Deryni heritage (the Deryni were a powerful race with magic powers which humans rebelled against, and nearly destroyed). Not only must Morgan and the heir, Kelson, face political intrigue and assassination attempts, but Kelson must also learn to use his latent Deryni powers. Events rapidly culminate in a dramatic showdown...

Deryni Checkmate (Chronicles of the Deryni, Vol. 2)
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In this volume, the story begun in Deryni Rising truly takes form. New levels of complexity arise as Duke Alaric Morgan (the young King Kelson's most staunch supporter) is beset on all sides by those who oppose his Deryni powers - powers which are necessary to defend the entire kingdom of Gwynedd. Gwynedd is threatened by the gathering forces of the Deryni warlord Wencit of Torenth, but the kingdom is in no shape to mount a defense when Morgan's Duchy of Corwyn is torn apart by internal strife caused by the rebellious Warin - an anti-Deryni, self-appointed Messiah, and the Church itself has threatened to excommunicate Morgan for his refusal to lay aside his forbidden powers, and throw his whole duchy under an Interdict. Espionage, kidnappings, magic and murder abound as the host of characters must finally choose sides and close ranks for the coming conflict.

High Deryni (Chronicles of the Deryni, Vol. 3)
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In Which The Conflict Delineated In Previous Volumes is (somewhat) Resolved. In this installment of the Deryni books, the young king Kelson, his adviser Morgan, the priest Duncan, Lord Derry, and the Bishop Arilan, among others, must solve the problems facing the Kingdom of Gwynedd. Most of the populace may be prejudiced against the Deryni's inexplicable powers, but the rebel leader Warin and the evil Wencit of Torenth cause even more pressing dilemmas. Romance, treachery and adventure are all in store for the heroes as they strive to save their kingdom and fight for the Light.

Bishop's Heir (Histories of King Kelson, Vol 1)
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In Which Kelson Learns That Sometimes it is Wiser to Kill One's Enemies When One Has The Chance! Gwynedd just doesn't seem destined to become a peaceful kingdom. Two years after the young King Kelson settled the threat of war with neighboring Torenth (in "High Deryni") there's yet more trouble. The anti-Deryni fanatic, Archbishop Loris, whom Kelson had imprisoned for his previous plots, escapes and aligns with the insurgent province of Meara and its pretender Princess Caitrin. Together, the support they draw for their plans of usurpation is daunting. The only way for Kelson to secure peace may be for him to marry Caitrin's daughter, the young and lovely Sidana. However, it's not as easy as it might seem, when the political situation is so touchy...

The King's Justice (Histories of King Kelson, Vol 2)
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Camber of Culdi (Legends of Camber of Culdi, Vol 1)
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this book centers around the newly crowned King Cinhil and his problems dealing with being king. A middle aged man starting a family, loving to his young bride, adjusting to running a kingdom, leaving the soltairy life of a monk, and fighting off an invasion are difficulties for him to overcome

Saint Camber (Legends of Camber of Culdi Vol 2)

Katherine Kurtz / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1981
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Camber the Heretic (Legends of Camber of Culdi, Vol 3)
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The Harrowing of Gwynedd (Heirs of Saint Camber, Vol 1)
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King Javan's Year (Heirs of Saint Camber, Vol 2)
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The Bastard Prince (Heirs of Saint Camber Vol 3)
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The latest of Kurtz's immensely popular Deryni novels concludes the trilogy The Heirs of Saint Camber and is best read after The Harrowing of Gwynedd and King Javan's Year. In it, the last surviving son of Cinhil Haldane has to fend off a challenge from the bastard heir to the old Deryni kings. He is aided (and with help like this, does he need hindrance?) by the fanatically anti-Deryni regents, from whom he must conceal the fact that his own Deryni powers, which will be essential to victory, are emerging.

The Deryni Archives
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The Quest for Saint Camber Vol 3
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Deryni Magic

Katherine Kurtz / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1991
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Katherine Kurtz

Katherine Kurtz / Paperback / Published 1987
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Tales of the Knights Templar
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Centuries ago, during the time of the Crusades, a mysterious order of Knights was founded in order to protect pilgrims on their travels. Active between 1119 and 1314, the Knights Templar faded away, but legends surrounding them grew. This is a collection of original tales, written by gifted fantasy writers as they bring the Knights of Templar to life once again.

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