Port Eternity (1982)

by C. J. Cherryh

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Series: Alliance-Union Universe, Alliance-Union Universe: The Age of Exploration (1), Alliance-Union Universe: Publishing order (10)

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Apparently forgettable, since my records say I originally read it in 1998.

The Arthurian stuff didn't work for me, so mostly was interested in this as a precursor to the better known Cherryh stuff. Can see some echos of 40,000 in this too. (

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joeyreads | Apr 2, 2013 |

A luxury yacht staffed by bio-engineered slaves is pulled through a knot in space-time and is besieged by a mysterious alien force. The yacht is themed on camelot and the slaves given the names and personalities of characters from Arthurian myth on the whim of the owner. Now those slaves have to confront the limits of their programming/brain-washing. Overall an interesting and unusual sf with the emphasis on characterisation. (

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iftyzaidi | Sep 19, 2012 |

Bio-engineered humans, servants of a Rich mistress with an Arthurian fantasy, acting out their roles within an unfolding crisis aboard a ship stuck in jump space.

Character viewpoint is through the rich womans maid.

Cherryh lives inside the head of her characters.

This is a short Alliance-Union novel.

The original DAW cover art is just terrible.

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
C. J. Cherryh	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Kelly, Ken W.	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
LaSasso, Gary	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Lancelot du Lac (azi)

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Maid of Astolat (spaceship)

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She was a beautiful ship, the Maid of Astolat, beautiful in the way ships can be when cost means nothing, and money certainly meant nothing except the comfort and the pleasure of my lady Dela Kirn.

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Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Modred, Lynette and Vivien, but they were not characters from legend. They were made people, clone servants designed to suit the fancy of their opulent owner, the Lady Dela Kirn. And they worked aboard the Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship, decorated with swords, heraldic banners, old-looking beams masking the structural joints, and lamps that mimicked live flame. They lived in a kind of dream, and had no idea of their origins, their prototypes in those old, old story tapes of romance, chivalry, heroism and betrayal. Until a wandering instability, a knot in time, a ripple in the between sucked them into a spatial no-man's-land from which there seemed to be no escape. And they were left alone, with the borrowed personas of their ancient namesakes, to face a crisis those venerable spirits were never designed to master.

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