Science Fiction, probably 1970s
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1MuranoBlue
It would be great if someone could ID this book that keeps niggling at me. (Don't you hate when that happens?)
There were two alien species. One was very aggressive and drafted skilled workers from a more peaceful species onto large spaceships. The ships also had a population of the peaceful species that called themselves ship bred or ship born. The POV is mostly a ship born female. They used implants for inter-species communications. The very aggressive species set aside sections of the ship for raising their own young and were even unpredictable and explosively violent near that area. The female overlord-type running one ship drafted a technician, implanted him, paired him with the POV female of his species. Then she bought a human spacer out of lot of wild humans and added him to the group and ordered the other two to see if they could come to understand him. Along the way, there was a planetary invasion/destruction, because the humans had on it didn't immediately comply the demands of the overlord-types. The POV female discovered she was unable to function under an open sky. The implanted human insisted on rescuing a human child, much to the bafflement of the other two species. There was a rival ship, run by a male overlord-type, that also picked up some humans and wound up putting a mother and her child in the nesting area because they didn't have any children of their own species. The two ships came together and established some sort of alliance/relationship.
The book had a Cherryh feel in that it threw you into alien cultures without much explanation, but it isn't one of hers. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
There were two alien species. One was very aggressive and drafted skilled workers from a more peaceful species onto large spaceships. The ships also had a population of the peaceful species that called themselves ship bred or ship born. The POV is mostly a ship born female. They used implants for inter-species communications. The very aggressive species set aside sections of the ship for raising their own young and were even unpredictable and explosively violent near that area. The female overlord-type running one ship drafted a technician, implanted him, paired him with the POV female of his species. Then she bought a human spacer out of lot of wild humans and added him to the group and ordered the other two to see if they could come to understand him. Along the way, there was a planetary invasion/destruction, because the humans had on it didn't immediately comply the demands of the overlord-types. The POV female discovered she was unable to function under an open sky. The implanted human insisted on rescuing a human child, much to the bafflement of the other two species. There was a rival ship, run by a male overlord-type, that also picked up some humans and wound up putting a mother and her child in the nesting area because they didn't have any children of their own species. The two ships came together and established some sort of alliance/relationship.
The book had a Cherryh feel in that it threw you into alien cultures without much explanation, but it isn't one of hers. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
2WildMaggie
No idea what book but after reading you summary I'm dying to know how it ends.
4kmaziarz
Funny, I was reading the description and thinking "Sounds like a Cherryh book!" And then got to your comment about how it's like Cherryh book but not one of hers, ha. Sorry I can't help! Just thought it was kind of funny.
5MuranoBlue
Well, just to show how wrong a person can be . . . It is a Cherryh book. I stumbled across it today on eBay - it's Hunter of Worlds.
6kmaziarz
HA! Too funny. Glad you found it, MuranoBlue! That's not one of the Cherryh books I've read, but it sounds pretty interesting!
7fuzzi
I've got Hunter of Worlds on my TBR stack!
8timisha82
hey you guys...im new to this and a big fan of cherryh...i need some help though....his story cassandra...i need some help on trying to figure out what cherryh was trying to say???
9fuzzi
BTW, CJ Cherryh is a woman, so Cassandra is 'her' story.
Cassandra was a character in mythology:
In Greek mythology, Cassandra (Greek Κασσάνδρα, also Κασάνδρα, also known as Alexandra) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future (this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future). However, when she did not return his love, Apollo placed a curse on her so that no one would ever believe her predictions. She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy, where her combination of deep understanding and powerlessness exemplify the ironic condition of humankind. --- Courtesy Wikipedia
See how that fits in with the short story "Cassandra" by CJ Cherryh?
Cassandra was a character in mythology:
In Greek mythology, Cassandra (Greek Κασσάνδρα, also Κασάνδρα, also known as Alexandra) was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future (this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future). However, when she did not return his love, Apollo placed a curse on her so that no one would ever believe her predictions. She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy, where her combination of deep understanding and powerlessness exemplify the ironic condition of humankind. --- Courtesy Wikipedia
See how that fits in with the short story "Cassandra" by CJ Cherryh?
