A PERILOUS
LOVE

In the folk-tales of pre-Christian Russia, the most dangerous ghost of all was the Rusalka, a murdered girl still seeking to exist by drawing the energy of life from all nearby living things.

Once Pyetr Kochevikov had mocked belief in magic, as he rioted through life with the young blades he thought his friehds.  But now, outcast from his native city, his only friend was Sasha Misurov, a young man fearful of his own beginning magical powers.  Pyetr and Sasha had found safety in the forest cottage of the old wizard, Uulamets.  Or it had seemed to offer safety, if not warmth.

Now Pyetr was less sure it was safe.  The dvorovoi, or Yard-Thing, accepted young Sasha, but the vodyanoi, or River Thing, had tried to kill Pyetr, and he had met the ghost of Uulamets' murdered daughter, the Rusalka the wizard was trying to call back to life.

The worst of it was that Pyetr felt himself falling in love with her, as she seemed to be with him!  But no love could quench her need for the life-sustaining energy within him.  And no man could long suffer that drain and live.

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C.J. CHERRYH

The constellation of Hydrus, known as the Serpent, is compact and obscure as seen from Earth's sky.  Even in the great era of interstellar colonization it remained obscure.  For it was under strict quarantine harboring an intelligent race, powerful, alien and inhuman.

Yet there were human colonies within the Serpent's Reach, cut off from the galaxy beyond, with their own inbred culture, their Families and traditions, and their special relationships to the inhuman majat.

This is the strange and brilliant novel of Raen, the last of the massacred Sul Family, and of her lifetime pledge to find vengeance.  It was to take her across the worlds of the Reach into the very center of the alien webwork, into the strands of thought and counter-thought that knit the forbidden constellation into a complex of interbred cultures that no outsider could hope to unravel.

In SERPENT'S REACH, the Hugo-winning author of THE FADED SUN and MORGAINE trilogies has written her finest science fiction novel to date.

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Sten Duncan had saved the lives of the last two of humanity's deadliest enemies, during the takeover of their planet Kesrith.  Sten therefore felt responsible for them and for their future - if any.

For though the two mri were brother and sister, they represented different power-castes of their ancient warrior-race.  Niun was the last of the bred samurai.  Melein, though young, was perforce the last priestess-queen.

But struggle and mutual danger had sealed Sten Duncan to their loyalty.  As their blood-brother, he would have to help them flee mankind and take the long, long evasion-route across the cosmos to a legendary lost planet which might afford the mri one more chance.

"When another Darkover novel, a book by C. J. Cherryh, or a new Arthur C. Clarke book comes along, I still drop everything I can to read it.  And I still feel the tingling eagerness...."
-Lester Del Rey,
Analog

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Men had gone to the stars; they had trod the soil of distant planets and settled their colonies; yet the homeworld of Earth remained. It was legend; it was a place of nostalgia for mankind's lost youth; it was always there. For every son or daughter who had departed for the stars, there were those who preferred the original skies and winds of the world which had first endured humanity's trials and triumphs. C. J. Cherryh, many honored author, has produced in SUNFALL a book of marvels in which six mighty cities laden with the grandeur of history confront their fates ...and those of the Earth-born who loved them. This is a truly unique work.

Bestselling author C. J. Cherryh proves once again that SF can be thrilling, knife-edged human adventure.  Set in the complex future of Downbelow Station, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, here is her latest Merchanter adventure...

TRIPOINT

Merchanter Cargo Chief Marie Hawkins has never forgiven the crime, nor sought justice.  Only vengeance.  And, for 23 years, the Hawkins’s clan ship, Sprite, has lived with her vendetta - and with her son, Tom, the boy sired in the violent assault.

Marie’s attacker, Austin Bowe, is captain of the Corinthian.  When both ships dock at Mariner Station, Marie vanishes and Tom searches for his mother... only to find himself trapped on Austin's ship with a half-brother he never knew he had and a crew fanatically loyal to Bowe.  Now as the Corinthian flees the
pursuing Sprite and a raider guns after both, the lives on board the two Merchanter ships are in the hands of Tom Hawkins.  To save them all, Tom must trust his sworn enemy...

His father.

"SUCCEEDS... MAKES THE CONFLICTS AND CHANGES [THE CHARACTERS] EXPERIENCE FEEL VITAL AND REAL."
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMPELLING... SATISFYING."
- Publishers Weekly

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ARIANE EMORY
HAS RETURNED.
BEWARE.

WHAT IS ARIANE?

Fifteen-year-old Ari Emory must grab and wield vast political power.  She must prove her existence and identity to a world that fears her, that thinks her a programmed living puppet - because Ariane Emory is the replicate of the dead tyrant whose name and genes she bears.

Her struggle will rip the social order of planet Cyteen and turn family into foes and enemies into allies, as the possibility of eternal resurrection fuels the lusts of rulers and the terror of the ruled.

Ari alone knows that her predecessor discovered a "Worm" - a flaw - in the basic fabric of civilization.  If not corrected, it will inevitably destroy humanity.  And only Ari Emory can hope to stop the Worm, if given centuries of life and unlimited power.

But someone murdered Ariane Emory once.  And stands waiting to kill her again...

"An absorbing story of power, intrigue, and betrayal - a worthy addition to Cherryh's star - and century-spanning Merchanters universe." - POOL ANDERSON

"A compelling heroine... a future as detailed as that of Herbert's Dune... and finely orchestrated suspense right up to the end.  Strongly recommended." - NEWSDAY

CYTEEN PART III: THE VINDICATION

"One of the best science fiction novels of the year."
- OTHER REALMS

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C.J. CHERRYH

Freedom was an isolated planet, off the spaceways track and rarely visited by commercial spacers.  It wasn't that Freedom was inhospitable as planets go.  The problem was that outsiders - tourists and traders - claimed the streets were crowded with mysterious characters in blue robes and with members of an alien species.

Native-born humans, however, said that was not the case.  There were no such blue-robes and no aliens.

Such was the viewpoint of both Herrin the artist and Waden the autocrat - until a crisis of planetary identity forced a life-and-depth confrontation between the question of reality and the reality of the question....

A different sort of interplanetary novel by the author of DOWNBELOW STATION and THE FADED SUN.

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The world of Shiuan was doomed. Rising waters and shattering earthquakes due to the coming of a vast and strange new satellite had sealed the fate of its peoples - flee or die with their world.
Their sole escape routes were the Gates, the passages between worlds established by a forgotten cosmic race. And just as this knowledge dawned on the desperate tribes and cities there appeared the woman Morgaine - whose mission was to seal Shiuan's Gates.

This is the story of Morgaine, she of Gate of Ivrel, and of her henchman, Nhi Vanye, and of their relentless enemy, Chya Roh, who followed them to the drowning planet.

This is a novel of science fictin and fantasy, told in all the marvelous color and depth which won for its author, C.J. Cherryh, the coveted John W. Campbell Award, voted by readers and fans for the best new writer of the year.

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