This one focuses a lot on the ‘mindset’ of the different parties and how it affects their relations and such. They are a bit less developed, but that’s part of the fun in going back to these books. Hestia is sort of like a ‘rough draft’ of Cherryh’s later works…you can see how she was working on many of the themes that reappear time and again. Like Midworld by Alan Dean Foster, there are a lot of very closely related aspects to the stories. It was one of CJ’s first published books and it has a sort of ‘Avatar ripped this this one off’ sort of vibe from the cover and all. I think I wouldn’t have enjoyed or appreciated them quite as much without being more familiar with where her writing has gone, how much further she has carried these ideas, and ‘looking back’ so-to-speak on these two. These two books were some of her earliest works and in them you can see how she was developing some of the ideas, concepts, and themes that would become her trademark. Her sci-fi works typically occur in the reality of the aliens, not the humans in the stories, and nobody does it better. A star? Sure, but not just an asteroid, no sir! So, anyways, you know with those credentials she’s freakin’ hard core.
Plus, she has an asteroid named after her, and not everyone can get that. She calls it ‘tight 3rd-person’…but Moby has no idea what 3rd-person means. Her style doesn’t treat the reader like they are stupid, you have to sort of just keep up sometimes, and then put the pieces together as you go. I cannot think of anything negative to say about CJ Cherryh. The first two I read were a couple of CJ Cherryh’s earliest novels, two that are not available on audio, Hestia and Wave Without a Shore. I went with some old favorites, some new ones, and some titles from favorite authors that I never got around to. Now there are about five books in line so to speak. So anyways, it was weird when I actually bought and read a book last month, and then finished that book and bought another. I will likely add more about Audible and the great titles they are adding every week in another post. ‘Catalog’ type stuff from 20 years ago, sort of classics from authors like Joel Rosenburg, CJ Cherryh, Elizabeth Moon, Dave Duncan…the list just goes on. They can be expensive, but they are such a very good way to whittle away time while your driving or stuck in traffic.Īnd luckily, Audible has been doing a great job the last year or two in adding some great stuff.
But of course when I started working full time and could not sit around reading all the time, I made the switch to audiobooks. She claimed she could read several books a day, but 2 in one week was good for me. When Moby was younger, he used to read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy paperbacks, a habit picked up from mom.
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