THE FADED SUN TRILOGY

Methuen paperback, 1988. Cover illustration: Gino D'Arcille.

"THE FADED SUN 

shows C. J. Cherryh at her awesome best. A trilogy of epic scale, published for the first time in one volume, The Faded Sun plots the fates of three individuals against a vast background of war, alliance and treachery across the stars. 

Two are members of a far-flung people, the mri-mercenary explorers and warriors, and currently deadly enemies of humanity. But with Melein, their last priestess-queen, and Niun, last of the true-bred warriors, is a human: Sten Duncan, who has renounced his own loyalty to serve them. They set off on a quest for the half-legendary mri-planet Kutath. 

Around this trio, mighty actions swing, and great destinies hang in the balance. C. J. Cherryh proves herself yet again to be an imaginative writer of exceptional power and invention."

SPECIAL DELIVERANCE

Methuen paperback, 1984. Cover illustration: Chris Moore.

"They were six ill-assorted players of the strangest game ever devised. Set on a strange planet, they knew neither its rules or its aim. There was the giant blue cube, the ruined city, the singing tower, the roaring wall of Chaos - all deadly dangerous, all part of the challenge that the unwilling travellers must confront. But what was it all for - and would they survive to find out?"

EXTRO

Methuen paperback, 1976. Cover artist uncredited.

"Scattered over the densely populated solar system there is a small group of immortals. One of them, Dr Sequoya guess, attempts to take over Extro, the supercomputer complex that controls all mechanical activity on earth. But instead Extro takes over Guess, and the combination turns suddenly evil. Dr Guess must be destroyed - but how do you kill an immortal?"

DR FUTURITY

Artist uncredited.

"He had a moment of shattering, blinding terror. One minute he'd been driving along the familiar road to his city office, next he was hurtled centuries into the future - but why? The tribesmen of the wolf had chosen him for a grimly dangerous task. But how could he escape it, and return to his own time?"

CITY

Methuen paperback, 1988. Cover illustration: Nick Rogers.

"Jenkins was a robot. He was built to be the perfect worker, tireless and uncomplaining, but quite unexpectedly he also became a close companion to generation after generation of his owners as the human race matured, moved beyond the confines of its one tiny planet, and eventually changed beyond all recognition. And then, because he was a good and dutiful servant, Jenkins went on to serve Earth's inheritors.... 

Here is a masterful tale of an Earth overrun by ants, a series of parallel worlds ruled by dogs, and a Jupiter where the human race finds its Golden Age - if human it could still be called."