Series
Unionside
C. J. Cherryh · 3 novels · 1983–2009
Unionside gathers three C. J. Cherryh novels that view her Alliance-Union universe from the rarer vantage of the Union side rather than the more commonly depicted Alliance: Forty Thousand in Gehenna follows the long-term fate of a Union colony effectively left to fend for itself on an alien world, while Cyteen (a Hugo winner) and its later sequel Regenesis center on the political fallout from the murder of a powerful Union scientist and the cloning program built around her legacy. The three books span centuries of the same future history and read as connected studies of Union society rather than one continuous plot.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Unionside at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s2
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
Shape
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Forty Thousand in Gehennadarkest · calmest
- Cyteenbrightest
- Regenesismost intense