Downbelow Station Dramatized Adaptation: Alliance-union Universe

by C.J. Cherryh

MP3 CD Format The Hugo Award-winning classic sci-fi novel, brought to life with a full cast, sound effects and cinematic music! The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations. Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe. But Pell was just the first living planet. Then came Cyteen, and later others, and a new and frighteningly different society grew in the farther reaches of space. The importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward. But the powerful Earth Fleet was still a presence in the Beyond, and Pell Station was to become the last stronghold in a titanic struggle between the vast, dynamic forces of the rebel Union and those who defended Earth's last, desperate grasp for the stars. Performed by Karen Novack, Holly Adams, Zeke Alton, Robb Moreira, James J. Johnson, John Kielty, James Konicek, Triya Leong, Rob McFadyen, Daniel Llaca, Keith Richards, Wyn Delano, Tanja Milojevic, Jason Keller, Peter Holdway, Niuhsa Nawab, Tony Nam, Anthony Palmini, KenYatta Rogers, Colleen Delany, Debi Tinsley, Yasmin Tuazon, Eric Messner, Nanette Savard, Marni Penning, Brandon Burton, Joe Mallon, Richard Rohan, Bradley Foster Smith, Steve Wannall, Nora Achrati, Chris Davenport, Alejandro Ruiz, Sara Matsui-Colby, Terence Aselford, Scott McCormick, James Lewis, Ken Jackson, and Jacob Yeh.

1 pages, Audio CD

Published October 1, 2021

About the author

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 science fiction since she was ten, spent ten years of her life teaching Latin and Ancient History on the high school level, before retiring to full time writing, and now does not have enough hours in the day to pursue all her interests. Her studies include planetary geology, weather systems, and natural and man-made catastrophes, civilizations, and cosmology…in fact, there's very little that doesn't interest her. A loom is gathering dust and needs rethreading, a wooden ship model awaits construction, and the cats demand their own time much more urgently. She works constantly, researches mostly on the internet, and has books stacked up and waiting to be written.