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All of C.J. Cherryh's award-winning short fiction, collected in one volume for the first time...
“It’s rare that I’m not working on a novel. Short stories often happen between novels. Consequently my output is fairly small. But I love the tale-telling concept, the notion that I can spin a yarn, rather than construct something architectural and precise.”
So writes triple Hugo Award-winning author C.J. Cherryh in the introduction to this book, the first comprehensive collection of her independent short fiction. For though Cherryh is primarily known for her novels, it’s clear both from the more than two dozen brilliant and varied stories collected here, as well as her commentaries about them, that she loves the short forms and truly enjoys her forays into them.
We welcome you to join the realms of C. J. Cherryh’s imagination, where you’ll visit “Cassandra”—the Hugo Award-winning tale of a woman cursed with a unique, prophetic madness. “Threads of Time”—an unforgettable reminder that when you play tricks in time, Time itself may play the greatest trick on you. Sunfall—in which six mighty Earth cities laden with the grandeur of history confront their fates in the far future light of our own dying sun. And many other magical, alien, and future worlds, in a volume that incorporates all C. J. Cherryh’s previous, long-unavailable collections, individual short stories that have never been compiled before, and a never-before-published novella written specifically for this book.
Board this spaceship where your tour guide is one of the most gifted and brilliant science fiction and fantasy writers, and embark on a journey fueled by the imagination of the incomparable C. J. Cherryh.
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The Collected Short Fiction of CJ Cherryh C J Cherryh 9780756415563 Books Reviews
- If you love the work of Ms Cherryh, this is a book for you. If, like I did, you already had the three books of short fiction contained in this volume it is still a book for you. First of all it is bound up in one beautiful hardback volume, so it looks a lot nicer in your library(not to mention the three have become valuable as collector items, so you can protect them and put them away). But it also has the advantage of some additional insights of the author as well as a story made especially for this edition. Lastly, if you don't have these stories in some other form you are missing a real treat. Ms. Cherryh's multi level writing style is always rewarding, and if you like I do have made an effort to own everything she has written will give you essential, parts of stories that you may have missed, (for example, Faery In Shadow, would be a head scratcher with out reading the first half of the story only available in the short story collections. Hint, Hint Publisher... Why don't you publish that Story in one volume for collectors? This is a great Airport Book, as it short stories and has natural breaks, but also the author, has set the book up as a story teller speaking to a traveler. Excellent!
- This book is a 2004 compendium of short stories from two previous C.J. Cherryh anthologies and a third collection of other Cherryh short fiction. All of the stories were published between1979 and 2004.
The first anthology was Sunfall, published in 1981. The stories are set in Earth of the far future, when the sun has gone unstable and apparently is putting out a lot more ultraviolet than it is now. Because of that, people tend to stay indoors, often in arcologies. All of the stories are set in one or another of today's major cities. Cherryh wrote another Sunfall story in 2004, which has been added to this collection. These stories are fantasy rather than science fiction. For example, from what we know from astrophysics, the sun should be stable for at least another four billion years. Yet the same cities exist in this far-future world (although changed a lot), and normal geologic processes like erosion and tectonics don't seem to exist. There are also ghosts and other supernatural occurrences in these stories. If the reader likes this kind of scientifantasy, he will probably enjoy the Sunfall stories.
The second collection is stories from Visible LIght, which was originally published in 1986. The section starts with an introduction by the author, in the form of a conversation between spaceship passengers, and this conversation is taken up again between stories. This set of stories is more like the hard SF I have read from Cherryh in the past. I like them.
These two collections are followed by a group of fourteen short stories and one vignette originally published between 1979 and 2002. Some are science fiction (including two set in the author's Alliance/Union future history) and some are ghosts-and-dragons fantasy. One has gods from Egyptian mythology as characters. All are excellent.
I did not enjoy all the stories in this book, but I enjoyed most of them. I therefore recommend the book and give it a 4. - I bought this because it is the only way to find SUNFALL which is great. If you like Cherryh's work you'll love Sunfall.
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- This volume is a very nice addition to any collector of C.J. Cherryh's longer works. It's a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, and the only thing that does not quite work is her attempt to link the stories together with a meta-narrative. Lots of great stuff here, though!
- OK, folks, I am going to use a term that I absolutely hate speculative fiction. There is no other way to describe what C.J. Cherryh does in this collection. She illustrates her mastery of SF, fantasy, horror, detective stories, and Classicalism - her formal field of study. Not only does she cover them all she mixes them to create something astoundingly nove and in the shorter storytelling formats no less. This is, of course, best realized and recognized in the Hugo Award winning "Cassandra" which combines nuclear holocaust SF with the Greek myth of the doomed Trojan princess.
The collection is divided into three parts. The first is a previously released end-of-the-world collection, "Sunfall", with tales centered on the once great cities of a dying Earth. This section has been lengthened with a new tale concerning Venice. The second section is an expansion of the 1986 collection "Visible Light". There are no "new" stories added to this collection but rather pieces published in other collections from 1978-84 have been attached including the aforementioned "Cassandra" and "A Thief in Korianth". The final section entitled "Other Stories" is just that and includes tales from the late 70s to 2002. They are a welcomed addendum including gems such as the haunting "Willow, the tragic "Pots", and the police thriller "Mech".
Jumping genres may be more challenging for the reader than it clearly ever was for the author. Cherryh is a master of SF but this book will leave no doubt she could have shined in any speculative fiction category.
