| Foreigner: 10th Anniversary Edition Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Cherryh, C. J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0756402514 ISBN-13: 9780756402518 Publisher: Daw Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound Published: December 2004 Annotation: The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh's epic series on first contact and its consequences is back in this special anniversary edition featuring a brand-new Introduction by the author. Reissue. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Space Opera - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Foreigner Novels |
| Physical Information: 1.14" H x 4.22" W x 6.86" (0.47 lbs) 432 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh's eponymous space opera series of first contact and its consequences... It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship. It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home. Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin's bullet. The work of an isolated lunatic? The interests of a particular faction? Or the consequence of one human's fondness for a species which has fourteen words for betrayal and not a single word for love? |
