Chanur's Homecoming

10 best books like Chanur's Homecoming (C.J. Cherryh): Shadow Captain, Minor Mage, The Orphans of Raspay, Startide Rising, Flag in Exile, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, Wizard, The Paratwa, Liege-Killer, Ash Ock

Shadow Captain
AuthorAlastair Reynolds
ISBN0575090634
The gripping sequel to the Locus award winning science fiction adventure, Revenger, tells a story of obsession and betrayal as two sisters hunt for the greatest treasure in the universe.

Adrana and Fura Ness have finally been reunited, but both have changed beyond recognition. Once desperate...
Minor Mage
AuthorT. Kingfisher
Oliver was a very minor mage. His familiar reminded him of this several times a day.

He only knew three spells, and one of them was to control his allergy to armadillo dander. His attempts to summon elementals resulted in nosebleeds, and there is nothing more embarrassing than having your elemental...
The Orphans of Raspay
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their...
AuthorDavid Brin
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species...
AuthorDavid Weber
ISBN0671876813
Hounded into retirement and disgrace by political enemies, cut to the heart by the murder of the man she loved, and bereft of confidence in herself and her abilities, Captain Honor Harrington has retreated to the planet Grayson to take up her role as Steadholder while she tries to heal her bitter wounds.

But...
AuthorFrederik Pohl
ISBN0345446674
In Book Two of the Heechee Saga, Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough...
AuthorJohn Varley
ISBN0441900674
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.


Sex and Buzz Bombs: "Wizard" by John Varley


(Original Review, 1980-12-16)


It introduces more complications into the plot of the TITAN series, and clears up some nagging items as well; ever wonder...
AuthorChristopher Hinz
ISBN0812530934
4.5 stars. Satisfying ending to one of the best (and certainly one of the most under-rated and least known) science fiction trilogies I have read. Beginning with Liege-Killer (on my list of All Time Favorites), continuing with the second book, Ash Ock (a superb middle volume that both continues and...
AuthorChristopher Hinz
ISBN0812530756
BE WARNED…THIS BOOK IS

5.0 stars. This is one of those hidden “gems” that makes Goodreads so worthwhile as I would probably never have otherwise come across this book. It is always great to rave about the books you really love and hopefully encourage your friends to check it out. Unless,...
AuthorChristopher Hinz
ISBN0812530780
A quarter of a millennium ago, before the nuclear apocalypse forced the inhabitants of earth to flee their home planet, few humans could have imagined the course their path would take. Now, the orbital colonies are the final sanctuary of humanity and life is more dangerous than ever before. The colonists...
By Demons Possessed
AuthorP.C. Hodgell
ISBN1481483986
SOMETHING IS PREYING ON THE GODS OF TAI-TASTIGON 

A crucial moment draws nigh leading to the ultimate showdown between Jame Knorth and Perimal Darkling, the supernatural entity that has pursued Jame’s people, the Kencyr, across multiple universes, destroying all in its wake. Can the...
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