(i) Both are future historians. I have tried but failed to get into Cherryh's future history series but don't let me discourage anyone else from trying. Better men than me are well into Cherryh's series.
(ii) Just as Anderson has contributed to some other authors' fictional universes (see here), Cherryh has done likewise at least once. Furthermore, her contribution has been to Superman which I have said that I would have liked Anderson to have done. (See here.) From what I remember, Cherryh, like Maggin, conveys some sense of what it would be like to fly at super-speed. However fantastic the content, a novelist, working only with words, must present not only visual descriptions but also the characters' points of views.
Anderson presents fliers (Ythrians) and mermen.
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Kaor, Paul!
I've also tried reading one of Cherryh's books, but it didn't "grab" me.
Anderson invented flying Diomedeans before he came up with Ythrians (partly because of a suggestion from Campbell). And reused "Ythri," which he took from the original version of "Honorable Enemies."
Ad astra! Sean
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