Meetpoint
1 Jan, 2025
C. J. Cherryh has been publishing since the mid-1970s. I hesitate to put a number to the number of books she has published, as more might appear between the time I write this and its publication in a week. I would also hesitate to put a number on the number of awards she has won and for which she has been nominated, except to point out that she is a SFWA Grandmaster — which puts her in a class with Heinlein, Bradbury, Norton, and Le Guin — and has been nominated for the coveted Balrog award.
Imagine my surprise when someone referred to Cherryh as obscure1. How could such a prolific, awarded author be obscure? I see no alternative but to shout at kids to get onto my lawn.
It’s true I’ve reviewed ten Cherryh works, and some of those works were her best-known pieces, books such as Downbelow Station and Cyteen2. Nevertheless, there are still many books to consider. As you will see over the course of the Meetpoint reviews….
1: Paraphrase because I cannot find the conversation.
2: Which is a bit of a shame, as I’d like to complain about the ambiguity of Cyteen’s in-print status, not to mention its inexplicable lack of an ebook edition.
How is Cyteen not in my default dictionary?