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The first book in C.J.Cherryh's eponymous series, *Foreigner*, begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race. From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the *Foreigner *series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship *Phoenix*—the same ship which brought a colony of humans to the hostile environment of alien *atevi *nearly two hundred years ago. During these six months, the *atevi *have reconfigured their fledgling space program in a bid to take their place in the heavens alongside humans. But the return of the *Phoenix *has added a frighteningly powerful third party to an already volatile situation, polarizing both human and *atevi* political factions, and making the possibility of all-out planetary war an even more likely threat.On the *atevi *mainland, human ambassador Bren Cameron, in a desperate attempt to maintain the pe
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- Author
- Cherryh, C. J.
- Publisher
- DAW Books : Distributed by Penguin, U.S.A
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780886777289
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Science Fiction, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 4.19 / 5 (3,038 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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