![]() The 17 previous volumes (arranged in three-book story-arcs) have dealt with alien encounter, interspecies diplomacy, political and bureaucratic maneuvering, palace intrigue, interstellar exploration, revolution and counter-revolution, and multi-species family drama, all punctuated by chases and escapes and shootouts. Cherryh’s Foreigner Universe series, which from the publication of its initial volume in 1994 has been chronicling the increasingly complicated interaction of a population of lost-in-space humans and their not-as-human-as-they-appear hosts, the atevi. The occasion for Walton’s remarks was C.J. ![]() Cover by Todd Lockwood.īy happy accident, as I was working on this column I was also paging through Jo Walton’s excellent collection of retrospective review essays, What Makes This Book So Great, and noted her chapter on ‘‘Re-reading long series,’’ in which she points out not only the pleasures of taking extended rambles through invented worlds, but the structural virtue of developing a narrative space in which ‘‘the books illuminate each other and the longer story… as the series progresses.’’ ![]()
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