Alien Stars
1985
First Published
3.65
Average Rating
254
Number of Pages
Part of Series
The Scapegoat - C.J. Cherryh How can humans and aliens end a war which neither wants, when their ideas about war and peace seem to have no point of contact? Seasons - Joe Haldeman It was supposed to be a peaceful anthropological study of an alien race, but it went hideously wrong. Cordon Sanitaire - Timothy Zahn The aliens were beyond primitive: they were animals never seen to use tools in the wild - so why were they using weapons far beyond any invented by men?
Avg Rating
3.65
Number of Ratings
66
5 STARS
23%
4 STARS
30%
3 STARS
36%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
0%
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Authors
C.J. Cherryh
Author · 102 books
Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J. Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field. She is the author of more than forty novels. Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball, and, a late passion, figure skating: she intends to compete in the adult USFSA track. She began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps. She sketches, occasionally, cooks fairly well, and hates house work; she loves the outdoors, animals wild and tame, is a hobbyist geologist, adores dinosaurs, and has academic specialties in Roman constitutional law and bronze age Greek ethnography. She has written science fiction since she was ten, spent ten years of her life teaching Latin and Ancient History on the high school level, before retiring to full time writing, and now does not have enough hours in the day to pursue all her interests. Her studies include planetary geology, weather systems, and natural and man-made catastrophes, civilizations, and cosmology…in fact, there's very little that doesn't interest her. A loom is gathering dust and needs rethreading, a wooden ship model awaits construction, and the cats demand their own time much more urgently. She works constantly, researches mostly on the internet, and has books stacked up and waiting to be written.
Timothy Zahn
Author · 81 books
Timothy Zahn attended Michigan State University, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1973. He then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and achieved an M.S. degree in physics in 1975. While he was pursuing a doctorate in physics, his adviser became ill and died. Zahn never completed the doctorate. In 1975 he had begun writing science fiction as a hobby, and he became a professional writer. He and his wife Anna live in Bandon, Oregon. They have a son, Corwin Zahn.
