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I'm partial to the Moist books myself, but the earliest books were definitely not a hit for me.

I"ll check and see what I'm missing tomorrow, thank you. Not much, but a couple.

I was willing to ignore it until a protagonist commented on how it was a really nice day and another storm wasn't due for a day or two, and then offhanded how "flying craft weren't suited to Pell's stormy weather so they didn't have any". It clearly rains a LOT (flooding is a major issue), but...

Partway through Downbelow Station. I might take a break after this to (re)read some Judge Dee (and get the next books in order), because gf & I are very much enjoying the series on netflix (no one Ma Rongs like Ma Rong Ma Rongs!) and the first time I read them I thought they were ripe for...

Hellburner flows more like a conventional novel than Heavy Time did. Good read. Cherryh's strength is "real people"; I don't see her often among hard sf lists but the science is absolutely real as it can be, the focus is just on "hard" psychology. And ramifications; I think all of her books have...

By Wells? I really like her stuff. Be prepared for more ruined mega-structures. She loves them.

The SFBC STILL EXISTS!!! It was SO AMAZING back then. All these books I'd never even heard of! And I forgot to send that thing back a LOT. Anyway, Cherryh is a...demanding writer. She's very good. Very very VERY good. But the story goes at her pace, in her way, and sometimes that's slow. And...

This may have been the first Cherryh book I ever read. One of the things I like about Cherryh is the mundanity. Nothing is shiny in her worlds. The plan is to read them ALL, in something like chronological order except when I don't. I'm on page 10 or something of Hellburner now; Downbelow...

Finished Heavy Time. I really do like Cherryh but suspect this might be a harder read for many people. It's slow for a lot, and the protags are both ancillary to the real events and pivotal. Kinda like the spark in powder room. Reading this 30 years after I first read it helped. Politics and...

I've come around to the appeal of cremation. Less muss & fuss. I tend to remember things visually, so shelves are preferable. Trying to find all my Cherryh books the other day was a nightmare, because 80% are together but that last 20%...I KNOW I have Rimrunners somewhere!

I technically have a kindle somewhere; used it for a few weeks when I went to Thailand (family stuff) because it just wasn't practical to bring enough books for me for three weeks. It was...fine. Don't get me wrong, I love physical books, but my apartment has a finite amount of wall space...

Love it when ENWorld decides I don't need thread updates anymore. Anyway, I read all the Chanur books. I hadn't read them all in order one after another before, so that was actually really good. Pride is a good intro but the details get better later on and the books go from strong (IMO) to...

I've read the Ancillary books and The Raven Tower, but don't recall aliens - which likely has more to do with my memory than anything else. CJ is just so EXTREMELY psychological in her writing - I honestly can handle the SF, but some of her fantasy was just beyond. I read Fortress in the Eye of...

One of the hallmarks of her sf is that alien species have alien impulses, emotions, or drives that never quite map onto human ones. We see the Chanur novels through the eyes of the hani, so they map very closely, but the kif (explored in later books) have no comprehension of affection, love, or...

Since I've been tripping over CJ Cherryh's works recently, I decided I'd go and reread some of it, so I grabbed the Chanur series when I was at the apartment and read Pride of Chanur. Takeaways: Still like it a lot. Best representation of alien species in fiction out there, imo. Development of...

Well that went quick.... Station Eternity was NOT a particularly quick book or a quick read. However, I read fast, and more importantly, I stayed awake until 5am reading that danged book. (and then got up at 9am and drove 7 hours to upstate NY today with my daughter. I wouldn't have done it...

Started on Station Eternity, by Mur Lafferty. The premise being "what if, everywhere you went, people died and you solved their murder...whether you meant to or not? And it kept happening? And OBVIOUSLY people were suspicious/disbelieving because...that's either too ridiculous to be real or too...

I much prefer Chandler to Hammett. I've said it before (and recently), that his plots are haphazard at best, but read him for the words themselves.

I think Robert Silverberg is often overlooked* nowadays, but he's a master. *I'm not saying he's no longer in print, or no one has ever heard his name, or that he's wholly forgotten, and most of us have certainly heard of him.

slightly over 5 times more than my graduating HS class (we had a neat 50)