I began to read CJ Cherryh's future history series because I am interested in such series and because her human-alien interactions might be as good as or better than Poul Anderson's. However, I started with
Downbelow Station. This novel features aliens but they are not interesting and is about human conflicts that I could not get involved in so should I read any more volumes of this series? Time will tell whether I do or not. Maybe one of the volumes that is recommended as presenting good human-alien interactions? For the time being, I have not exhausted rereading Anderson's accounts of the Ythrians:
The People Of The Wind
The Earth Book Of Stormgate
The Day Of Their Return
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI read one or two of Cherryh's stories many years ago and they did not appeal to me, or grab my interest. So I never tried to read more deeply into her works. The items I read felt too flat and cardboardish for my taste.
Ad astra! Sean