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Don't meet their eyes,back away slowly,they bite!!!!!!!, Jun 24 1999
By A Customer
You can not resist the Starlords.Don't try,comply or die.Isande has learned this rule and must teach it to Aiela,her male counterpart,and to Daniel,a human mercenary for their lives and worlds hang in the balance. A dangerous mission,an uncertain target,a vague reward. You will learn to obey.
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a comment on Hunter of Worlds, Oct 24 1997
After many years of not being able to find my copy of this book (black hole filing system), what I remember most is not the background of vicious competition among clans and characters, but a single sweet turning of one universe into another -- C'mel was a Girly-girl in Corwainer Smith's universe of the Instrumentality of Man, exploited and doomed. C.J. took C'mel and transported her to the universe that should have been. Thanks, C.J.
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Hunter of Worlds scores a Hit, Aug 2 1997
By A Customer
CJ Cherryh is one of the more prolific Science Fiction/ Fantasy writers of this decade. As her later books appear in print, earlier works get pushed to the back of shelf, are no longer sold and subsequently go out of print.
This is a shame when one of the works is Hunter of Worlds. Set in a distant part of the galaxy, it is a story which fascinates due to the interplay of the various races which populate that far off region.
As a whole, Hunter of Worlds shows off one of Ms. Cherryh's greatest talents; the ability to create thoroughly believable, fascinating alien cultures, with their morals, viewpoints, religions and especially in the case of this book, their own languages.
In so doing, Cherryh avoids creating facile morality tales whereby she uses the alien cultures as Aesop used his fables, to teach us; rather, after permitting us to enter into the alien world view we see ourselves as the aliens see us, with all our strengths and weaknesses.
I read Hunter of Worlds early on in my reading of Cherryh's works, and it remains one of the bench marks whereby I judge other works by other authors. As a result of this novel and her "Faded Sun" series, Cherryh is the ONLY Science Fiction author that I will buy off the rack, without a reference.
Find a copy of this book, read it and enjoy. Sorry. You can't have mine
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