Foreigner: 30th Anniversary Edition
Foreigner: 30th Anniversary Edition by C. J. Cherryh is a significant work in the science fiction genre, published by Astra Publishing House on November 19, 2024. This edition, featuring 432 pages, presents the groundbreaking novel that initiated Cherryh’s renowned space opera series, exploring the complexities of first contact and its far-reaching consequences.
In this narrative, nearly five centuries after the starship Phoenix’s encounter with the atevi, humanity grapples with the aftermath of a conflict that reshaped their existence. The story unfolds on a planet where alliances are dictated by personal loyalties and registered assassination maintains order. As humanity has traded advanced technology for a fragile peace, the only human permitted in atevi society becomes the target of an assassin. This edition includes a new afterword by the author, providing further insight into the themes of alien invasion and the intricate dynamics between species.
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The groundbreaking novel that launched Cherryh’s beloved space opera series of first contact and its consequences to become one of the longest running science fiction series in existence
Now available in trade paperback for the first time, this 30th Anniversary Edition features a brand-new afterword by the author
It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliances were defined by individual loyalties not geographical borders, and war became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship. It was a war that humans had no chance of winning on this planet so many light-years from home.
Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin’s bullet. The work of an isolated lunatic? The interests of a particular faction? Or the consequence of one human’s fondness for a species which has fourteen words for betrayal and not a single word for love?
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