Books in series
#1
The Pride of Chanur
1981
When Tully, a fugitive from a spaceship captured by the arrogant, insect-like Kif, takes refuge on the Pride of Chanur, a merchant vessel belonging to a clan of the lion-like Hani, Hilfy, its captain, gives him shelter, in spite of all the dangers she and her crew will face.
#2
Chanur's Venture
1984
In the sequel to Pride of Chanur, Tully returns, and brings with him a priceless trade contract with human space—a contract that could mean vast power, riches, and a mess of trouble for Pyanfar Chanur. Reissue.
#3
The Kif Strike Back
1985
Pyanfar, captain of The Pride of Chanur, journeys to Mkks station in hopes of rescuing Hilfy and Tully, two kidnapped crew members
#4
Chanur's Homecoming
1986
As the races of the Compact alliance mobilize for interplanetary war, Pyanfar Chanur and her crew must take a final desperate gamble that threatens the very fabric of the galaxy
#5
Chanur's Legacy
1992
National best-selling author C.J. Cherryh continues her highly acclaimed series with a new generation of alien encounters.
A game of interstellar politics in which Hilfy Chanur and her vessel Legacy are commissioned to transport a small, mysterious religious object. The price is extremely generous, perhaps too generous.
Praise for the Chanur series:
A tour de force...quintessential SF. (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
One of the best science fiction tales ever. (Minneapolis Star and Tribune)
#4-5
Chanur's Endgame
2007
This omnibus contains the final two Chanur novels, Chanur's Homecoming and Chanur's Legacy . This groundbreaking series chronicles the compelling first contact between humans and multiple alien races, and is noted for its unique that of the alien protagonists.
These two books feature the adventures of Tully, the only human crewmember of the spaceship Pride of Chanur; the ship's hani captain, Pyanfar; and Hilfy Chanur, Pyanfar's niece and crewmember who goes on to become the captain of her own ship, Chanur's Legacy. They must navigate delicate interstellar politics and interspecies conflict, even as the fate of worlds hangs in the balance.
Author
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.
