[bksvol-discuss] SUBMITTED: The Pride of Chanur
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:28:42 -0500
This is the first book in C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series. Books 2, 3, 4, and
5 are already on Bookshare, so I thought someone needed to submit book 1. I
didn't realize til after I started scanning that book 2 needs a rescan.
BTW, according to the author, books 2, 3, and 4 are actually a single book
broken into the separate books in order to keep the pages per book down to
what the publisher considered would sell better.
RTF file. Has been spell checked and proof read, and the headers have been
stripped. 222 pages.
Gerald
Pyanfar is justifiably reluctant to shelter the strange Outsider that had
dashed aboard her merchant star ship, The Pride of Chanur. First, she had
business to transact at Meetpoint. Second, Pyanfar, following the traditions
of her hani culture, takes only females aboard starships (after all, males
are notoriously unstable and emotional), ,and this Outsider seems to be
male.
Moreover, it's not a particularly attractive one; Pyanfar critically
compares its nearly hairless flesh to her own luxuriant, red-gold fur. But
it knows some sort of written symbols, it seems intelligent-and it is
fleeing from its captors, the kif.
Any hani captain worth her salt is familiar with the underhanded dealings of
the kif; their reputations are beneath contempt. Even their demeanor is
repulsive-wrinkled gray skin, uniformly long faces, and constant, whining
catalogs of grievances. No, Pyanfar knows, any Outsider would have good
reason to flee a kif. She'll keep the Outsider with her, return to her home
planet, and take the matter to court, if necessary... .
Human, the Outsider calls itself. More specifically, Tully. Through a
translating machine, he tells about his species. But Pyanfar cannot know,
when she first harbors Tully, that the kif will use all their most vicious
tactics to retrieve their victim.
As the kif pursue the Pride, accusing the hani of piracy, maliciously
destroying another hani ship, Pyanfar finds herself in a desperate race for
her species' survival. She knows that the kif will risk destroying all
civilization to capture Tully, for to learn the habits and defenses of
humanity is a first step toward a kif-controlled universe.
And as yet another species-the mysterious, methane-breathing knnn-enters the
race for motives unknown, Pyanfar's live contraband may provide the key to
the galaxy's future.
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