Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh, C.J. Cherryh

Cherryh is a ... comprehensive... writer, and that's true of these short stories as much as it is in Cyteen or Tripoint. Cherryh is never content to set up a situation or a problem and then solve it. No, her stories require inventions of worlds, including social, legal, economic and political systems. These are among the densest short stories you will ever read; on page 466 I found a 125-word sentence describing light hitting books and floor in a hallway. The shortest story in this collection (page 586) takes microbes from reproduction to space travel in the space of a paragraph. For the dedicated fan and hardcore science fiction lover.
Posted by supersusie at June 27, 2004 11:05 PM