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C.J. Cherryh

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in St. Louis, Missouri, The United States

Website

http://www.cherryh.com/

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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June 2009

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Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. She is the author of more than forty novels. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball, and, a late passion, figure skating: she intends to compete in the adult USFSA track. She began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps. She sketches, occasionally, cooks fairly well, and hates house work; she loves the outdoors, animals wild and tame, is a hobbyist geologist, adores dinosaurs, and has academic specialties in Roman constitutional law and bronze age Greek ethnography. She has written s ...more

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Have a very happy holiday season!

Jane and I celebrate Christmas, and while this has been a rough year for Jane, there is brightness too. We have made new friends and we are getting the house in order.

And a Christmas note on the kitty front: as you know, Jane and I have sis-Lynn’s elderly snowshoe Siamese we have been trying to integrate into our household, with the Bengal and the Scottish Fold, aka Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley (thei

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	Downbelow Station (The Company Wars, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 16,635 ratings — published 1981	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Foreigner (Foreigner, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 11,125 ratings — published 1994 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cyteen (Cyteen, #1-3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,715 ratings — published 1988 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pride of Chanur (Chanur, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 7,873 ratings — published 1982 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faded Sun Trilogy (The Faded Sun, #1-3) 4.14 avg rating — 5,535 ratings — published 1978 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invader (Foreigner, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 5,252 ratings — published 1996 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inheritor (Foreigner, #3) 4.21 avg rating — 4,587 ratings — published 1996 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Precursor (Foreigner, #4) 4.25 avg rating — 3,925 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fortress in the Eye of Time (Fortress, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 4,206 ratings — published 1995 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Explorer (Foreigner, #6) 4.32 avg rating — 3,574 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

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“It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.”
― C. J. Cherryh

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“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles

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OCTOBER SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run-off poll for the October Science Fiction Book-of-the-month.

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

20 votes, 19.2%

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

20 votes, 19.2%

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

16 votes, 15.4%

Sundiver by David Brin

14 votes, 13.5%

Shon'jir by C.J. Cherryh

11 votes, 10.6%

Dark Eden by Chris Beckett

7 votes, 6.7%

Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds

7 votes, 6.7%

Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear

6 votes, 5.8%

Idlewild by Nick Sagan

3 votes, 2.9%

104 total votes

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message 1: by Bradley

Jun 12, 2009 07:04AM

Thank you for adding me as a friend CJ. I have been a long time fan of your work. Arafel is a personal muse that whispers in my ear when I need some elf inspiration. I hope you are having a good day! =)

Dreamsbane of Tamalor

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message 2: by C.J.

Jun 12, 2009 02:14PM

Bradley wrote: "Thank you for adding me as a friend CJ. I have been a long time fan of your work. Arafel is a personal muse that whispers in my ear when I need some elf inspiration. I hope you are having a good da..."

Thanks much!

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message 3: by Michael

Jun 15, 2009 02:33PM

Thanks for adding me. I'd just done some spring cleaning on here not long before you moved in. Main change was the addition of your blog feed to the profile page. Loving your Foreigner books.

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message 4: by C.J.

Jun 15, 2009 02:42PM

Michael wrote: "Thanks for adding me. I'd just done some spring cleaning on here not long before you moved in. Main change was the addition of your blog feed to the profile page. Loving your Foreigner books."

Thank you very much!

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message 5: by Diana

Oct 26, 2009 05:15AM

Thanks for adding me! I'm a big fan. I've really gotta try to get out to one of your events sometime soon! :)

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message 6: by C.J.

Oct 26, 2009 05:19AM

Diana wrote: "Thanks for adding me! I'm a big fan. I've really gotta try to get out to one of your events sometime soon! :)"

Thanks! I'll be at Radcon and at Miscon...

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message 7: by Diana

Jan 28, 2010 03:40AM

I have a question... (Sorry if you've been asked this before!) Did you name Ariane Emory after Arianespace?

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message 8: by C.J.

Jan 28, 2010 05:50PM

Diana wrote: "I have a question... (Sorry if you've been asked this before!) Did you name Ariane Emory after Arianespace?"

Actually, I always liked the name, and chose it independently; but when I next read an article citing Arianespace, I did think it appropriate.

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