The pride of Chanur - C. J. Cherryh

One of the lovely things about science fiction is that we get to visit far off worlds and meet interesting new species from our armchair. Just how interesting varies, and I personally find the most interesting ones are the most detailed, and utterly foreign aliens that we manage to find some common ground to understand and appreciate them. Very few writers manage to pull off this feat, and rarer still is the author who manages to stand and look back at us with alien eyes, or better yet, to have us look at ourselves through the eyes of the aliens. One such writer is C. J. Cherryh, and in the Pride of Chanur, she surpasses herself. Taking place in the ...  Read the complete review