Human space borders kif and knnn territory, the most aggressive and enigmatic species of the Compact respectively. The Compact is not a political organization, and has no government it deals only with open trade, leaving the component civilizations to resolve conflicts between themselves. It is occupied by a number of spacefaring civilizations bound by a set of trade treaties into a so-called Compact. The series is set in the same Alliance-Union universe of Downbelow Station, but in a region of space in the opposite direction from Earth as the Alliance and Union. Set in Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe, but in a different region of space inhabited by numerous alien spacefaring civilizations, the Chanur novels are unusually realistic examples of space opera, with ship-to-ship shooting minimized in favor of coercion, manipulation, politics, pride contests, and clashing economic interests, driven in many cases by species-to-species miscommunication and misunderstanding. The five novels were also published in two omnibus editions: the first three in The Chanur Saga in 2000 and the next two in Chanur's Endgame in 2007.Īn abridged version of The Pride of Chanur was published in the Science Fiction Digest in 1983. These were followed by a later sequel, Chanur's Legacy (1992). The Pride of Chanur, originally a stand-alone story, was followed by the Chanur's Venture trilogy (also referred to as "Chanur's Revenge"), Chanur's Venture (1984), which was shortlisted for a Locus Award in 1985 The Kif Strike Back (1985) and Chanur's Homecoming (1986). The first novel in the series is The Pride of Chanur (1981), which was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1983. Cherryh and published by DAW Books between 19. The Chanur novels are a series of five science fiction novels, forming three separate stories, written by American author C.
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