"An excellent, action-filled book, replete with the finely tuned social and scientific detail one has grown to expect from Cherryh." -Kliatt "Cherryh's customary strengths are all here--brisk pacing, above-average characterization of both human sexes and also of nonhumans, and genuinely brilliant world-building." -Booklist "For interesting aliens, try Cherryh's SERPENT'S REACH. In it she has created what may be the first sympathetic hive mind in SF. Cherryh has successfully avoided almost all the mystic pseudoscience claptrap inspired in her predecessors by Earth's social insects. She has achieved a Hive intelligence that makes sense. I congratulate her and I look forward to her attempt to top it. -Analog
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Set in a forbidden star system featuring a terrifying race of ant-like aliens, this is the story of Raen, the last of the massacred Sul family, and her lifetime pledge to vengeance. Other books by the author include "Downbelow Station" which won the Hugo Award, and "Exile's Gate".
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"An excellent, action-filled book, replete with the finely tuned social and scientific detail one has grown to expect from Cherryh." -Kliatt "Cherryh's customary strengths are all here--brisk pacing, above-average characterization of both human sexes and also of nonhumans, and genuinely brilliant world-building." -Booklist "For interesting aliens, try Cherryh's SERPENT'S REACH. In it she has created what may be the first sympathetic hive mind in SF. Cherryh has successfully avoided almost all the mystic pseudoscience claptrap inspired in her predecessors by Earth's social insects. She has achieved a Hive intelligence that makes sense. I congratulate her and I look forward to her attempt to top it. -Analog
Product Description
Set in a forbidden star system featuring a terrifying race of ant-like aliens, this is the story of Raen, the last of the massacred Sul family, and her lifetime pledge to vengeance. Other books by the author include "Downbelow Station" which won the Hugo Award, and "Exile's Gate".