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Chanur 04: Chanur's Homecoming (Alliance-Union Universe) (edition 1991)

by C. J. Cherryh

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The epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war.… (more)
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Title:Chanur 04: Chanur's Homecoming (Alliance-Union Universe)
Authors:C. J. Cherryh
Info:DAW (1991), Paperback, 400 pages
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Chanur's Homecoming by C. J. Cherryh

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Shakespeare has Macbeth say that life "is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” "Chanur's Homecoming" indeed has lots of sound and fury but ultimately comes to only a bit more than naught.

I really wanted to enjoy the Chanur saga; I did. Disappointed. The first half of this novel is a punitive read, just directionless, and the action-packed latter half occurs in a jumble of words that just don't consistently make sense. There is far too much mucking about and patois-laced recursive second-guessing, too much to allow the story to just unfold. The constant reliance on sentence fragments (arg!) to imply quick thought is cheap and unwarranted: very pulp-rag. This is a novella stretched out to 350 pages so the publisher could kick up the price by $1.75.

I get that space-opera has come a long way since the mid-1980s, but this is tepid even compared to contemporary works like Cherryh's own "Downbelow Station" or Card's 'Ender' novels. ( )
  MLShaw | Apr 20, 2023 |
Chanur's Homecoming by CJ Cherryh. This is the third in a trilogy telling a story that follows on from a previous stand alone book that set the seeds for this story (The Pride of Chanur). The leads all come together as Pynafur starts to realise the inter species politics that had restricted her species to only one planet. When that planet is threatened she comes up with a plan to try and prevent disaster. This is a great finish to the story. I really think this is one of the best science fiction universes where different species interact in all too believable ways. ( )
  John_T_Stewart | Jun 22, 2018 |
I spent a large fraction of this year reading these books, and still have very conflicted feelings about them. I can't tell if the author intends you to feel slightly confused by the complex alien motivations, or if I am just Not Quite Bright Enough / versed in sci-fi story telling tradition, but I did spend large waves of time thinking 'what is going on? Why are they doing this?' Which meant the books were harder work (even if more rewarding) than reading Facebook, so they went rather slowly.

On the other hand, there is lots and lots to like in them. The aliens and their power structures are very alien, Hilfy's growth from young girl to competent spacer is well sketched out, and poor Pyanfer, trying to do the right thing even though she knows in the eyes of her world it will look exactly like the wrong thing. And I loved the games with gender, where the women travel the universe and trade, because the men must be sheltered and protected, not as a straight swap of roles, but because they are too angry and impulsive and strong and must be mollycoddled.

The second and third books don't really have an ending. The first book is 'Hani end up accidentally with a human, lots of people run around, there's a battle, everything is better.' And then books two to four tell a very similar story, but with a lot more detail. I would sort of like to reread them now I've made it to the end, because I might understand them better on the second time round, but not enough to spend months reading them all again! ( )
  atreic | Jun 1, 2018 |
slow, so slow. ( )
  Kevin678 | Nov 7, 2017 |
  iansales | Apr 12, 2015 |
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The Pride's small galley table was awash in data printout, paperfaxes ringed and splotched with brown gfi-stains, arrowed, circled, crossed out, and noted in red and green ink till they were beyond cryptic.
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The epic conclusion to the Hugo Award-nominated saga begins as alien entities called "humans" send their first exploration ship into Compact space, disrupting the seven Compact races' alliance. Pyanfar Chanur and her feline hani crew give shelter to the only surviving human from the ship, pitching them into the center of a galactic maelstrom which could cause interstellar war.

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