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This was the 1st C. J. Cherryh novel I ever read, (somewhere around the time of the 1st printing), & I'm SO glad it was, because I've now read everything by her I can get my hands on! This was my 1st introduction to a writer who could make aliens be REALLY ALIEN!
You're an alien male humanoid, forcibly telepathically linked, through technological means, to a female of your species & a HUMAN male, you can barely understand, by an INCOMPREHENSIBLE alien humanoid species of PURE PREDATORS!
Unfortunately, this particular book positively BEGS for a whole series of sequels & you won't get even ONE! (Read her latest series & get over it)!


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Hunter of Worlds CJ Cherryh 9780749302122 Books Reviews

Very reminiscent of Heart of Darkness - but not as readable. When Aiela Lyailleue, a Kallian technician, is ordered to report for service to the spaceship Ashanome at Kartos Station, he knows his life is likely forfeit to the terrifying star lords. He awakes to find that a device has been implanted in his brain which links him psychically to a beautiful ship-bred Kallian female, Isande, and a strange, dirty, alien creature called Daniel; a human!

Why has this been done? Chimele, the iduve (indigo skinned, dark-haired) ruler of the spaceship, has been ordered to track down and bring back the rebel Tejef, who has betrayed the Orinthain ways and is living with humans. Her plan is to use the two Kallians (blue-skinned, fair-haired) to control Daniel, so that he can infiltrate Tejef's outpost on Priamos.

While I admire Cherryh's creation of entire societies of alien races, each with their own language, it was VERY hard to read. After about 150 pages, the gloves come off and every fourth or fifth word is alien. (I was constantly flipping back and forth to the index - very annoying) And the alien races have a very non-human outlook, but disturbingly human physiology - to the extent of having cross-species romances.
Aiela Lyailleue is abducted by the dreaded iduve, enslaved, and mentally joined with two strangers Isande, a beautiful woman who doesn't understand his rebellion, and Daniel Fitzhugh, an abused and terrified human. And that's just the beginning of his problems.

This is possibly my favorite Cherryh book (which means it's one of my favorite books of all time). It was one of the first ones she wrote, but it already displays her trademark strengths. She creates not one but three distinct alien races here, each with its own language, values, and culture. (If you find the alien languages difficult to follow, there's a glossary in back.) It has everything I've come to expect from a Cherryh novel the immersion in an alien culture, the Byzantine politics, strong female characters, and most of all the charismatic characters and intense relationships. Probably if she had written this story later in her career, it would be a multi-volume series, like Chanur or Foreigner. But there's something to be said for brevity. Hunter of Worlds is in many ways more accessible than her later works. It's pared to the essentials - concentrated Cherryh. Though the book deals with many of the same themes Cherryh dealt with in later works, I found this one more daring than her usual "getting to know you" books about aliens. When you get right down to it, the iduve are slavers. That's about as unsympathetic as you can get. It's theoretically possible for a murderer to have a worthy motivation, but how can you possibly justify enslaving other intelligent, sentient beings? Yet somehow, she manages to show the iduve as merely alien, not evil.

Aiela, a member of the kalliran race, is an appealing character who has interesting relationships with several characters in the book. But the most compelling is his bond with Daniel. They are forcibly mindlinked by the iduve - so mentally entwined that one of them can be disciplined by torturing the other. Daniel, being rather more fractious than any kallia would be, proves quite a trial for poor Aiela.

Also interesting is his relationship with Chimele, the ruler of the iduve. While kallia evolved from herd-like prey animals, iduve evolved from predators. Chimele is rather cat-like. Not in looks, but in personality. I've heard that she was inspired by C'Mell, from Cordwainer Smith's "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell." Only instead of being a lowly girly-girl, she's the leader of a natural master race!

Hunter of Worlds is out of print as a standalone, but used copies are readily available. Also, it's half of an omnibus called At The Edge Of Space.
About 10 months ago I read The Faded Sun trilogy, also by Cherryh. That book was slightly better than this one. Other reviewers of this book (Hunter of Worlds) tell a little about the story/plot so I won't go into that. The main problem is that the story is hard to follow and parts were just incomprehensible. Too much with the use of alien words in the text. The alien language with the glossary in the back of the book may sound interesting, but was more of a pain after awhile than anything else. I never felt personally invested in the story or any of the characters. While I have a general understanding of what I read, there are parts that I have no idea what happened or why. Too much with alien politics and customs that went right over my head. There's clear potential here, but it's not that satisfying a feeling when I finished the last page. Bottom line This book was a difficult read. If you like that sort of challenge you will probably like it more than me.
Had a hard time reading this book!
I read this book in junior high. I didn't really understand it then, but now as an adult, I have a chance to read it again. I am so happy I've been able to find it again via Marketplace.
This was the 1st C. J. Cherryh novel I ever read, (somewhere around the time of the 1st printing), & I'm SO glad it was, because I've now read everything by her I can get my hands on! This was my 1st introduction to a writer who could make aliens be REALLY ALIEN!
You're an alien male humanoid, forcibly telepathically linked, through technological means, to a female of your species & a HUMAN male, you can barely understand, by an INCOMPREHENSIBLE alien humanoid species of PURE PREDATORS!
Unfortunately, this particular book positively BEGS for a whole series of sequels & you won't get even ONE! (Read her latest series & get over it)!