This, like almost everything, is vaguely related to the U/A universe but has no real specific connection. Then she wrote perhaps her best singleton. There are several followups, published 1988-1997 + 2009, listed below.) (These are respectively great, very good, good and are core U/A reading. Downbelow deals with the Company wars and Merchanter's Luck is a very loose sequel with a very different focus and 40K is a Union book. With Downbelow Station, she won her first Best Novel Hugo and started the strict U/A sequence though even those are not as tight as Morgaine or Faded Sun. Serpent's Reach is pretty good - perhaps average for Cherryh.) ( Hestia is easily her single worst novel and was not reprinted during her recent omnibus reprints.
Hestia is barely connected to U/A and Serpent's Reach is very much a Union novel, though there are inconsistencies with some aspects of other Union novels. These are obviously tightly connected to each other but only loosely to U/A. Then she began the Faded Sun "trilogy" which is really a single huge novel (normal by today's standards) split into three. (I think these are okay and Brothers is the lesser of the two.) Then she wrote two separate science fiction novels which are also nominally connected to the U/A but have no special order and are not connected to each other. Exile's Gate, listed below, was added in 1988.) She began the Morgaine trilogy which is a "science fantasy" story which has a mention of a very tenuous connection to the Union/Alliance universe but has no necessary connection or reading order in relation to the other books though they are tightly connected to each other. It is arguable but, for the purposes of this post, I'm going to divide Cherryh's career into three phases.Īll of her work for this period was published by DAW and, except for the Ealdwood fantasy duo, was nominally part of the Union/Merchanter Alliance universe but few are particularly connected. Corrections almost certainly needed and very welcome. Inspired by a question Connavar had about Cherryh's works, here's a lengthy annotated list (initially taken from ISFDB but, obviously, much fiddled with - there are many lists which arrange her books in various ways but most of them seem to follow the marketing rather than actual contents).
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