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Overview

C.J. Cherryh, one of the most prolific and acclaimed SF writers in the world, delivers the seventh book in her Foreigner series, and the first book in the new Foreigner trilogy-the epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true SF odyssey.

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Destroyer, the seventh novel in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner saga (Foreigner, Invader, Inheritor, et al.), not only heralds the inception of a new trilogy but also the beginning of a turbulent new era between the human descendants of a lost colonial starship and the sentient race of aliens inhabiting the planet they were forced to land on.

Bren Cameron is humanity's adviser to the atevi -- a race of giant, black-skinned, golden-eyed warriors -- a position that demands intelligence, finesse, patience, and no little courage. After decades of cultivating a strong relationship with the complex and volatile aliens, Bren leads a mission to rescue a colony of humans trapped on a faraway space station. Some very influential atevi -- namely the young heir and his great-grandmother -- accompany Bren on the two-year trip into deep space. The mission is ultimately successful; but when the ship returns, they find the atevi homeworld in total chaos. The atevi leader is missing and presumed dead. Political factions are jockeying for control. With rumors of war between atevi and humankind spreading, can Bren find and restore the missing ruler to power and avert more bloodshed?

With every new Foreigner novel, Cherryh strengthens the saga's already imposing reputation as one of the foremost series exploring the complex and delicate relationships between human and alien cultures. Comparable to Harry Turtledove's Colonization novels and Alan Dean Foster's Commonwealth sequence, Cherryh's Foreigner saga is cerebral science fiction at its very best -- as entertaining as it is contemplative. Paul Goat Allen

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In this solid if slow-moving addition to Cherryh's much-praised Foreigner series (Invader, etc.), Bren Cameron and his atevi allies finally return to their home world, where atevi natives and human colonists live in an uneasy truce. Their desperate, two-year mission has been a success; they've evacuated the humans stranded on distant Reunion Station and made tentative peace with the kyo, an enigmatic and heretofore hostile alien race. Bren soon discovers, however, that his troubles are far from over. His employer, Tabini, the most powerful atevi ruler on the planet, has been deposed and may well be dead. Along with Tabini's bumptious young heir, Cajeiri, and the ruler's highly competent but aging grandmother, Ilisidi, Bren must make a dangerous shuttle landing and then travel cross-country through hostile territory in search of his employer, who is the only leader on the planet, human or atevi, with the foresight and presence of mind to deal with the impending arrival of the kyo. Cherryh's Foreigner books make up one of the finest on-going series in the genre. This volume, the first in a new trilogy, is hampered by the need to clarify what is now a considerable back story, but it features a healthy dose of the author's trademark well-developed characters, fine style and intense psychological realism. Cherryh's many readers should snap this one up. Agent, Matt Bialer at Sanford Greenberger. (Feb. 1) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780756403331
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 2/7/2006
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 416
  • Sales rank: 265,451
  • Series: Foreigner Universe Series , #1
  • Product dimensions: 4.20 (w) x 6.80 (h) x 1.17 (d)

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  • Posted December 9, 2008

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    excellent in depth exploration of an alien society

    The Atevi send the spaceship Phoenix to Reunion Station where the inhabitants encountered the sentient space faring Kyo who planned to blow up the facility because it was in territory they considered theirs. Deploying diplomacy, interpreter and Human-Atevi advisor Bren Cameron convinces the Kyo to allow the four thousand inhabitants to peacefully leave and then the space station would belong to the Kyo. Now they are days away from home and both human and Atevi are looking forward to enjoying the little luxuries found on their planet.--- They come back to a world that is in the middle of a civil war and onboard the Phoenix is the dowager and the heir. No one knows where the ruler and his wife are and many think they are dead. Bren and his staff, the dowager and her staff, and the heir shuttle down to the planet where they travel through enemy territory to find the heir¿s great uncle. They hope to enlist his aid in returning the former ruler on his heir to power, but a traitor alerts the rebels who plan to kidnap or kill them.--- Nobody is better than C.J. Cherryh when it comes to writing an in depth exploration of an alien society. Relations between humans and Atevi are in jeopardy many of the native race believes humanity has too much influence and technology that disturbs the conservative elements of their society. Bren blames himself for pushing the space program and other technological advances on the leader who trusts him and he is desperate to undo the damage he has done. DESTROYER is a wondrous work starring two sentient races struggling to co-exist peacefully.--- Harriet Klausner

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 23, 2005

    Love This Series, But Have Two Complaints

    Any new Cherryh book is a treat, particularly a new book in the Foreigner universe. My first complaint is that I've got to wait for Pretender to be published--I want the entire trilogy now. Destroyer is a set-up book, much like Invader--everyone is getting in place to take care of whatever chaos Cherryh unleashes in Pretender. The entire book feels like one of Bren's split-second, downhill slides to either a brilliant solution or total destruction. My second complaint is that I wanted to see more interaction with the atevi and the Mosphierans on Mosphiera. Maybe in the next book.

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