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Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh (2008, Uk-B Format Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDAW
ISBN-100756405505
ISBN-139780756405502
eBay Product ID (ePID)69568786
Product Key Features
Book TitleDownbelow Station
Number of Pages432 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicScience Fiction / Action & Adventure, Science Fiction / Space Opera, Science Fiction / Military
GenreFiction
AuthorC.J. Cherryh
Book SeriesAlliance-Union Universe Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition20
ReviewsCherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization, and war.” —Questar, "Cherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization, and war." -- Questar, Praise for Downbelow Station : Winner of the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel "Cherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization and war." -- Questar "Full of imagination, action, and understandable, sympathetic characters...." -- Analog "The well-drawn variety of backgrounds and motivations of the characters is the work's strength." -- VOYA "A solid, vividly realized background; excellent characterization of humans and aliens; and an ability to keep a story moving... Intelligent space adventure, conceived and executed on a grand scale." -- Booklist " Downbelow Station is a fascinating, complex deep-space-war political novel with a lot of subtle twists." -- Fantasiae, “Cherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization, and war.â€� — Questar, Praise for Downbelow Station : Winner of the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel "Cherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization and war." -- Questar "Full of imagination, action, and understandable, sympathetic characters...." -- Analog "The well-drawn variety of backgrounds and motivations of the characters is the work's strength." -- VOYA "A solid, vividly realized background; excellent characterization of humans and aliens; and an ability to keep a story moving... Intelligent space adventure, conceived and executed on a grand scale." -- Booklist " Downbelow Station is a fascinating, complex deep-space-war political novel with a lot of subtle twists." -- Fantasiae , Praise for Downbelow Station : Winner of the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel "[ Downbelow Station ] has a marvellous perspective on humanity in the wider universe.... The plot is a complex maneuvering of factions and realignment of interests. There are space battles, and there are economics of space stations.... It's a novel about desperate people, desperate spacestations, desperate aliens, a desperate spacefleet that's out of choices." --Tor.com "A solid, vividly realized background; excellent characterization of humans and aliens; and an ability to keep a story moving... Intelligent space adventure , conceived and executed on a grand scale." -- Booklist "Take one highly vulnerable space station. Pack it with realistic characters. And then start a war. You'll end up with 1982's Hugo winner, Downbelow Station , by C.J. Cherryh -- and a hell of a story ." --io9 "Cherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization, and war." -- Questar " Full of imagination , action, and understandable, sympathetic characters...." -- Analog "The well-drawn variety of backgrounds and motivations of the characters is the work's strength." -- VOYA " Downbelow Station is a fascinating, complex deep-space-war political novel with a lot of subtle twists." -- Fantasiae
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Grade ToUP
SynopsisThe Hugo Award-winning classic sci-fi novel, now available in a trade edition. The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations. Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe. But Pell was just the first living planet. Then came Cyteen, and later others, and a new and frighteningly different society grew in the farther reaches of space. The importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward. But the powerful Earth Fleet was sitll a presence in the Beyond, and Pell Station was to become the last stronghold in a titanic struggle between the vast, dynamic forces of the rebel Union and those who defended Earth's last, desperate grasp for the stars.
