Hellburner

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Author(s):

C J Cherryh

First Pub:

1992

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Subject(s):

Science fiction
Space warfare - Fiction

Chapters:

19 chapters

Internal ID:

13541

Series:

<- Heavy Time - Tripoint ->

The Company Wars*

#5 of 7

The Company Wars*

A science fiction series by C J Cherryh.

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1) Downbelow Station
2) Merchanter's Luck
3) Rimrunners
4) Heavy Time
5) Hellburner
6) Tripoint
7) Finity's End

Alliance-Union Universe

#6 of 27

Alliance-Union Universe

A collection of novels written by C.J. Cherryh which all take place in the same universe though some are very loosely connected. The order of these is from isfdb.org even though I normally like to order them by publication date. Since this mega-series encompasses so many other series, I've used this method instead.

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1) Alliance Rising
2) Downbelow Station
3) Merchanter's Luck
4) Rimrunners
5) Heavy Time
6) Hellburner
7) Tripoint
8) Finity's End
9) The Pride of Chanur
10) Chanur's Venture
11) The Kif Strike Back
12) Chanur's Homecoming
13) Chanur's Legacy
14) Forty Thousand in Gehenna
15) Cyteen
16) Regenesis
17) Port Eternity
18) Voyager in Night
19) Cuckoo's Egg
20) Kesrith
21) Shon'jir
22) Kutath
23) Serpent's Reach
24) Wave Without a Shore
25) The Scapegoat
26) Brothers of Earth
27) Hunter of Worlds

Copyright:

First Sentence:

Ben indexed through the motile pictures and the text, the statistics about rainfall and mean average temperature which the Guide cautioned a prospective visitor did not in any sense mean a constant temperature.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

"A winning hand, Dek-boy, odds are - a winning hand."

Comments:

No comments on file

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Added: 08-Feb-2023

Last Updated: 23-Jun-2023

Publications

01-Jun-1993

Warner Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jun-1993

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$5.50

Pages*:

393

Catalog ID:

36451-7

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

23295

Publisher:

Warner Books

ISBN:

0-446-36451-7

ISBN-13:

978-0-446-36451-5

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Don Maitz - Cover Artist
Richard Nebiolo - Hand Lettering
Don Puckey - Cover Design

"PACKED WITH INTRIGUE." -Washington Post Bookworld

Ben Pollard thinks he's traded the perils of the Belt for security on Earth - until he's shanghaied to the orbital Sol II battle station. There he's forced to help a man Ben never wanted to see again, Jinxed pilot Paul Dekker.

Now Dekker's the center of a lethal mystery, while military, political, and corporate rivals on two worlds conspire to use him and Pollard as lab animaIs in a war for humanity's soul. And to save themselves, Pollard and Dekker must master and wield the awesome power of Earth's most secret weapon...

HELLBURNER

"Cherryh remains near the top of the field in both world-building and characterization.... In her gifted hands, Merchanter is becoming one of the best-built and most lived-in futures in science fiction." -Chicago Sun-Times

"Cherryh does to the future military establishment what she did to future corporations: gives a close and skeptical look at what it's like to be at the bottom of the pyramid." -Locus

A MAIN SELECTION OF
THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB®

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Notes and Comments:

First Printed in Paperback: June, 1993
Third printing based on the number line
Canada: $6.99

Author(s)

C J Cherryh
Birth: 01 Sep 1942 St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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I try to maintain page numbers for audiobooks even though obviously there aren't any. I do this to keep track of pages read and I try to use the Kindle version page numbers for this.
Synopses marked with an asterisk (*) were generated by an AI. There aren't a lot since this is an iffy way to do it - AI seems to make stuff up.
When specific publication dates are unknown (ie prefixed with a "Cir"), I try to get the publication date that is closest to the specific printing that I can.
When listing chapters, I only list chapters relevant to the story. I will usually leave off Author Notes, Indices, Acknowledgements, etc unless they are relevant to the story or the book is non-fiction.
Page numbers on this site are for the end of the main story. I normally do not include appendices, extra material, and other miscellaneous stuff at the end of the book in the page count.

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