I think the point that was being made was that before taking damage, a FTL ship will try to flee the system to avoid damage to itself and risk to the children;...
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Hey everybody, I recently picked up a copy of _The Collected Short Fiction of CJ Cherryh_ in hardcover at Half-Price Books. That particular bookstore (in Des...
I'm at the end of chapter 8 (page 80). A few more comments: * In station detention (chapter 6, page 57), Bet becomes either sarcastic in her musings or totally...
Recall that the description of the Hell new recruits was put through was someone who was proud to have served on Africa. Like people who had been through...
I saw a copy of Foreigner in B&N today with "10th Anniversary Edition" on the cover. Has it really been 10 years? Wow. I always saw the Foreigner novels as a...
p.264: "Twenty years on Africa, tac-squad sergeant, sir. I ran these opeartions from the other side, You got yourself a boarding situation, sir, and my...
... stations ... Stations claimed neutrality and hoped that they would be more valuable intact and roughly neutral than damaged. Until the last days, that was ...
Yes but Bet is claiming experience in an armed forced boarding of a resisting station. Were there any outside of Union and did Fleet raid Union stations as...
... While it seems a bit picky to worry over some of these details left vague by Cherryh, I for one don't know that station boarding actions weren't part of ...
IIRC until the final Fleet retreat Union had only Cyteen and Fargone. Am I in error? And yes I tend to quibble over trivia; spent too much of my life...
... Well, consider this: how did Yeager get "recruited"? Well, the Africa, essentially, raided her station. No, it wasn't a big system station. But it was...
... I'd assume that you are right, Doctor = post graduate degree. Given that the Loki is such a nightmare assignment, one might be amazed how anyone ended up...
... Compare AE1's reasoning (as told by AE2) for going ahead with Gehenna. Insurance. ... I think so. Cf the constitutional stuff in Cyteen, on relative ...
... to ... only ... 2290's) ... Do ... I don't have much of my library but I have my files: 2300 Cyteen declares independency (CI5). Union founded, Company...
So there are another 11 stations unmentioned in the books beyond Cyteen and Fargone? Scott ... From: Onno Meyer To: cherryhlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday,...
C.J. Cherryh Destroyer NO MORE SPOILERS THAN THE DUST JACKET All long series have a problem bringing in new readers. There is so much backstory the picking up...
... Thanks, Onnno! I have no such file of wartime events handy. In the web timeline low-intensity conflict seems to start as early as 2266 or so; even counting...
... I expect that several of those stations WERE named. I don't have a station list handy, and I have no clear idea where places like Wyatt, Viking or Mariner...
Hey Jo... I've lost my instructions on how to use the applet when passing parameters to the linked URL. I still have notes on how to use the global target...
Has a new introduction by the author, if I remember correctly, but my copy is upstairs and I'm just too lazy to go check. You might be able to read the intro...
Have you seen that interactive star map on the net somewhere....and if so, is this thing accurate?
Here is the URL:
http://members.nova.org/~sol/chview/...
... As accurate as the HIPPARCOS and Earth-based Yale Parallax data was in 1997. The java maps at http://www.solstation.com/ include RECONS distances for the...