Series
First Foreigner Sequence
C. J. Cherryh · 3 novels · 1 short story · 1994–2017
C. J. Cherryh's original Foreigner trilogy opens the larger Foreigner series, following Bren Cameron, the sole human translator-diplomat (paidhi) permitted contact with the atevi, an alien people whose loyalties run on a hierarchical bond called man'chi rather than human emotions like love or friendship. Generations after a lost human ship stranded its descendants on the atevi's world, Bren must manage the fraught exchange of human technology just as the starship Phoenix unexpectedly returns, throwing both human and atevi society into crisis. Foreigner, Invader, and Inheritor lay the groundwork for the decades of political intrigue the wider series continues.
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The order the books came out.
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- 1990s3
- 2000s0
- 2010s1
Shape
3 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.