C. J Cherryh
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For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins. Ross and Fallon, crew members of the Galway, believe...
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It started long ago, in a tower at the Eye of Time, as a war between the shadowy Immortals who came before our kind. That war persists today, as the wizard Mauryl's Shaping confronts the Shadows that Hasufin summoned from Chaos against the Siddhe lords.
Tristen is that Shaping, a halfling creature of Fire and Shadow. Both more and less than human, he turned back sorcery's tides in the legend-heavy battle of Lewenbrook. Tristen's victory brought his...
7) Hammerfall
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Marak, a prince and warrior, is ordered by the dictator to find the elusive silver tower, and when he accomplishes this task, the beings within the tower give him a new mission--lead his people to safety before the hammer of the dictator's dreaded enemies falls.
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Two surprising allies have emerged to aid the embattled ruler in a struggle he must win: Cefmyn's two young sons. Aewyn Marhanen is the prince destined to rule. Aewyn's half-brother. Elfwyn Aswydd-- the bastard son of the king and the sorceress Tarien Aswydd--has spent years unaware of his parentage, yet now it is time to emerge and claim the gifted birthright he's been denied for so long. But a dark, sinister magic has crept close to the young man...
10) Conspirator
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Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Associationand he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his fathers rule. For Cajeiri is the first ateva youth to have lived in a human environment. And after hundreds of years of fragile atevi-human coexistence, he may very well be the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similaryet so dangerously differentaliens who share his...
12) Paladin
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Now betrayed by the Emperor he once protected, master swordsman Saukendar leaves the way of the sword behind him forever-so he thinks. When a headstrong peasant girl burning to avenge her murdered family demands that he train her, Saukendar is faced with a momentous choice. Send Taizu away, never see her again-or join her and destroy the tyrant who has nearly destroyed them both.
13) Invader
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Since the starship Phoenix left the small group of colonists on the planet of the atevi 178 years ago, humans and atevi have developed an understanding, which is threatened when the Phoenix suddenly returns.
14) Deliverer
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In the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bu-javid, their seat of power. The usurper, Murini has escaped to the lands of his supporters, but the danger these rebels pose is far from over. The world of the atevi has fragmented into two antagonistic political camps: the...
15) Destroyer
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"It has been two years since the starship Phoenix left Alpha Station on a rescue mission to a faraway sector of space where over four thousand human spacers were under attack by a hostile alien race. Now, the Phoenix is almost home, having successfully rescued the stranded colonists through the combined negotiating talents of Bren Cameron-brilliant human paidhi to the atevi court, currently representing Tabini-aiji, the atevi ruler-and of Tabini's...
16) Pretender
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Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission to a distant sector of space, and with resources strained by four thousand extra mouths to feed, the crew of the starship Phoenix yearns for the luxuries of home. But when the ship makes the final jump into atevi space, they learn the worst: supplies to their home station have been cut off; civil war has broken out on the atevi mainland; the powerful Western Association has been overthrown; and Tabini-aiji...
17) Precursor
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Diplomat Bren Cameron finds the fate of the world resting on his shoulders when he is sent into space to negotiate on behalf of the atevi race in an attempt to gain control of a long-abandoned human space station without sparking a deadly inter-species war.
19) Regenesis
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Regenesis continues the story of Ariane Emory PR, the genetic clone of one of the greatest scientists humanity has ever produced, and of her search for the murderer of her progenitor--the original Ariane Emory.
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The human and atevi residents of Alpha Station, orbiting the atevi home world, have picked up a signal from an alien kyo ship saying that the ship is headed toward Alpha. Five thousand of the inhabitants of Alpha are human refugees from Reunion Station, which was abandoned when a single kyo ship attacked without warning and destroyed a major section of the station. Bren Cameron, human emissary of Tabini-aiji, the powerful atevi leader on the mainland...