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Cherryh C J / Черри Кэролайн - Собрание сочинений
Годы выпуска: 1976-2020 г.
Автор: Cherryh C J / Черри Кэролайн
Язык: Английский
Формат: fb2/epub
Качество: OCR/eBook

Описание: Кэролайн Черри (полное имя — Кэролайн Дженис Черри / Carolyn Janice Cherry) родилась 1 сентября 1942 года в Сент-Луисе (Миссури).
Первый роман Кэролайн Черри — «Врата Иврел» [Gate of Ivrel] был опубликован в 1976 году под «псевдонимом» C.J.Cherryh. Возможно подобная маскировка была связана с тем, что в то время на рынке фэнтези доминировали мужчины. Труд писательницы не остался незамеченным. В 1977 году она получила John W. Campbell Award, как лучший начинающий писатель.
«Врата Иврел» открыли серию «Хроники Моргейн» — сплав фэнтези и фантастики в котором рассказывается о приключениях владелицы волшебного меча и ее преданном спутнике/слуге/любовнике, которые намерены уничтожить созданные загадочной расой «врата», позволяющие перемещаться во времени и пространстве. Вскоре вслед за первым романом последовали продолжения — «Источник Шиюна» [Well of Shiuan] (1978) и «Огни Азерота» [Fires of Azeroth] (1979), а почти десять лет спустя писательница вернулась к этой же теме, написав заключительную книгу цикла — [Exile's Gate] (1988), про которую российские издатели упорно стараются никому не говорить, делая вид, будто ее не существует.
Еще одним наиболее известным циклом писательницы стал научно-фантастический «Альянс — Союз» [Alliance — Union] в котором она, по примеру старших коллег создала собственную историю будущего — с космическими кораблями, звездными войнами и межзвездными торговцами. В «А-С» вошли несколько практически самостоятельных подциклов и одиночных романов, которые объединяет лишь то, что действие всех происходит в одном и том же мире.

К сожалению переводили Черри на русский мало и, в основном, не особо хорошо ac Читайте в оригинале! Я сам прочитал практически весь цикл "Альянс-Союз" и "Моргейн" (этот цикл понравился мне меньше, слишком уж там чувствуется увлечение автора творчеством Андре Нортон). Самое интересное у Черри - столкновение и взаимодействие культур, как человеческих, так и инопланетных. Язык очень хороший, хотя и не особо простой ...

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02 Voyager in Night 1984, fb2
03 Cuckoo's Egg 1985, fb2
01 The Pride of Chanur / Гордость Шанур 1991, fb2, ISBN: 0-88677-292-3, DAW Books
02 Chanur's Venture / Выбор Шанур 1985, epub, ISBN: 978-1-101-66082-9, DAW Books
03 The Kif Strike Back / Испытание Шанур 1987, fb2, ISBN: 0-88677-184-6, DAW Books
04 Chanur's Homecoming 1987, fb2, ISBN: 0-88677-177-3, DAW Books
05 Chanur's Legacy 1993, fb2, ISBN: 0-88677-559-0, DAW Books
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01 The Pride of Chanur / Гордость Шанур
02 Chanur's Venture / Выбор Шанур
03 The Kif Strike Back / Испытание Шанур
Appendix: Species of the Compact
Chanur's Endgame 2007, epub, ISBN: 978-0-7564-0444-4, DAW Books
04 Chanur's Homecoming
05 Chanur's Legacy
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01 Heavy Time / Трудные времена 1991, fb2
02 Hellburner 1993, fb2, ISBN: 0-446-36451-7, Questar / Warner Books
Devil to the Belt 2000, epub
01 Heavy Time / Трудные времена
02 Hellburner
03 Downbelow Station / Последняя база 1981, fb2, ISBN: 8-470-02376-4, DAW Books; epub
04 Merchanter's Luck 1982, fb2; epub
05 Rimrunners 1990, fb2, ISBN: 0-445-20979-8, Questar / Popular Library
06 Tripoint 1994, fb2
07 Finity's End 1997, fb2
01 Forty Thousand in Gehenna / 40000 на Геене 1984, epub, ISBN: 978-0-87997-952-2, DAW Books
02 Cyteen / Сытин 1995, epub, ISBN: 978-0-446-67127-9, Aspect / Warner Books
03 Regenesis 2009, epub, ISBN: 978-0-7564-0530-4, DAW Books
01 Brothers of Earth / Братья Земли 1976, fb2
02 Hunter of Worlds 1977, fb2
At the Edge of Space 2003, epub, ISBN: 978-1-101-49560-5, DAW Books
01 Brothers of Earth / Братья Земли
02 Hunter of Worlds
01 Angel with the Sword / Ангел с мечом 1985, fb2
02 Festival Moon 1987, epub, ISBN: 0-88677-192-7, DAW Books
Festival Moon shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
First Night Cruise novelette by Leslie Fish
Festival Moon (reprised) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Two Gentlemen of the Trade shortstory by Robert Asprin
Festival Moon (reprised) (2) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Cat's Tale novelette by Nancy Asire
Festival Moon (reprised) (3) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Deathangel novelette by Mercedes Lackey
Festival Moon (reprised) (4) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Sword Play novella by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Festival Moon (reprised) (5) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
First-Bath novelette by Lynn Abbey
Festival Moon (reprised) (6) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Night Action shortstory by Chris Morris
Festival Moon (final reprise) novelette by C. J. Cherryh
Merovingian Ecology essay by Mercedes Lackey
Index to City Maps essay by C. J. Cherryh
Merovingian Song: Guardian poem by Leslie Fish
Merovingian Song: Black Water (Suicide) poem by Mercedes Lackey and C. J. Cherryh
Merovingian Song: Private Conversation poem by Mercedes Lackey and C. J. Cherryh
03 Fever Season 1987, epub, ISBN: 0-88677-224-9, DAW Books
Fever Season shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Hearts and Minds novelette by Chris Morris
Fever Season (reprised) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
A Plague on Your Houses shortfiction by Mercedes Lackey
Fever Season (reprised) (2) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
War of the Unseen Worlds novelette by Leslie Fish
Fever Season (reprised) (3) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Night Ride novelette by Nancy Asire
Fever Season (reprised) (4) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Life Assurance novelette by Lynn Abbey
Fever Season (final reprise) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Instant Karma novelette by Janet Morris
Fever Season (song) poem by Mercedes Lackey and C. J. Cherryh
Mist Thoughts (A Waltz with a Limp) poem by Mercedes Lackey and C. J. Cherryh
Merovingian Songs: Partners poem by Mercedes Lackey and C. J. Cherryh
Index of Isles and Buildings by Regions essay by uncredited
Merovan Ecology essay by uncredited
04 Troubled Waters 1988, epub, ISBN: 0-88677-271-0, DAW Books
Troubled Waters novella by C. J. Cherryh
A Tangled Web We Weave novella by Mercedes Lackey
By a Woman's Hand novelette by Nancy Asire
The Prisoner novelette by Janet Morris
Strange Bedfellows novelette by Lynn Abbey
Saying Yes to Drugs novelette by Chris Morris
Nessus' Shirt shortstory by Roberta Rogow
Treading the Maze novelette by Leslie Fish
Merovingian Pharmacology 103, or, Poison in Jest essay by uncredited
Raj's Letters shortfiction by uncredited
Merovingian Songs: Partners poem by Mercedes Lackey and C. J. Cherryh
Merovingian Songs: A Song for Marina poem by Mercedes Lackey and C. J. Cherryh
05 Smugglers Gold 1988, epub, ISBN: 0-88677-299-0, DAW Books
More than Meets the Eye novelette by Mercedes Lackey
Paper Chase shortstory by Roberta Rogow
A Fish Story novelette by Nancy Asire
A Harmless Excursion shortstory by Robert Asprin
Mystery novella by Chris Morris and Janet Morris
Smuggler's Gold novelette by C. J. Cherryh
A Day in the Life novelette by Lynn Abbey
Fair Game novelette by Leslie Fish
Merovingian Folklore 101, or, Alarums, Excursions, and Rumors shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
Golden Rule poem by Mercedes Lackey
The Cats of Jane poem by Mercedes Lackey
Ladies of the Hightown poem by Mercedes Lackey
Dark Lover poem by Mercedes Lackey
Falken Lover poem by Mercedes Lackey
Canalers' Love Song poem by Mercedes Lackey
06 Divine Right 1989, epub, ISBN: 0-88677-380-6, DAW Books
Seeds of Destruction novelette by C. J. Cherryh
Run Silent, Run Cheap novella by Leslie Fish
Farren's Folly: Meeting of Minds shortstory by Roberta Rogow
Run Silent, Run Cheap (Reprised) (#1) shortfiction by Leslie Fish
Foggy Night shortstory by Bradley H. Sinor
Seeds of Destruction (Reprised) (#1) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Second Opinion - novelette by Janet Morris
[b]Seeds of Destruction (Reprised) (#2)
shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Second Opinion (Reprised) (#1) shortfiction by Janet Morris
Seeds of Destruction (Reprised) (#3) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Farren's Folly: Meeting of Minds (Reprised) (#1) shortfiction by Roberta Rogow
Red Skies novelette by Lynn Abbey
Seeds of Destruction (Reprised) (#4) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Turning Point novelette by Mercedes Lackey
Seeds of Destruction (Reprised) (#5) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Draw Me a Picture novelette by Nancy Asire
Turning Point (Reprised) (#1) shortfiction by Mercedes Lackey
Postpartum Blues novelette by Chris Morris
Seeds of Destruction (Reprised) (#6) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Postpartum Blues (Reprised) shortfiction by Chris Morris
Seeds of Destruction (Reprised) (#7) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Run Silent, Run Cheap (Reprised) (#2) shortfiction by Leslie Fish
Appendix: From the Files of Anastasi Kalugin, Advocate Militiar shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Appendix: Index to City Maps essay by uncredited
07 Flood Tide 1990, epub, ISBN: 0-88677-452-7, DAW Books
Flood Tide novelette by C. J. Cherryh
The Testing novelette by Nancy Asire
Flood Tide (Reprised) (#1) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
The Testing (Reprised) (#1) shortfiction by Nancy Asire
Flood Tide (Reprised) (#2) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
The Testing (Reprised) (#2) shortfiction by Nancy Asire
Don't Look Back novelette by Mercedes Lackey
Flood Tide (Reprised) (#3) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
The Testing (Reprised) (#3) shortfiction by Nancy Asire
Walking on the Waves novelette by Leslie Fish
Where's the Fire shortstory by Roberta Rogow
Wheels within Wheels shortstory by Bradley H. Sinor
Marriage novelette by Lynn Abbey
With Friends Like These shortstory by Mercedes Lackey
Flood Tide (Reprised) (#4) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Rapproachment novella by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Flood Tide (Reprised) (#5) shortfiction by C. J. Cherryh
Appendix: Merovingian Folklore 102 essay by Mercedes Lackey
Appendix: Merovingian Songs essay by Mercedes Lackey
08 Endgame 1991, epub, ISBN: 0-88677-481-0, DAW Books
Endgame shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Lost Song shortstory by Bradley H. Sinor
Endgame (Reprised) (#1) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Proving Ground novelette by Mercedes Lackey
Endgame (Reprised) (#2) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Bookworms novelette by Nancy Asire
Endgame (Reprised) (#3) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Family Ties shortstory by Nancy Asire
Escape from Merovingen: Finale in Two Acts - Act One: The Fool Must Die novelette by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Family Ties (Reprised) (#1) shortstory by Nancy Asire
Endgame (Reprised) (#4) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Escape from Merovingen (Act One Reprised) (#1) shortstory by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Family Ties (Reprised) (#2) shortstory by Nancy Asire
Escape from Merovingen (Act One Reprised) (#2) shortstory by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Endgame (Reprised) (#5) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Escape from Merovingen: Finale in Two Acts - Act Two: Escape From Merovingen novelette by Janet Morris and Chris Morris
Endgame (Reprised) (#6) shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
Once Was Enough novelette by Lynn Abbey
Once Was Enough (Reprised) shortstory by Lynn Abbey
Endgame (Concluded) novelette by C. J. Cherryh
Index to City Maps: Index of Isles and Buildings by Regions essay by uncredited
01 Kesrith / Угасающее солнце: Кесрит 1978, fb2
02 Shon'jir / Угасающее солнце: Шон'джир 1978, fb2, ISBN: 0-7420-9240-2, DAW Books
03 Kutath / Угасающее солнце: Кутат 1979, fb2
The Faded Sun Trilogy 2000, epub, ISBN: 978-0-88677-869-9, DAW Books
01 Kesrith / Угасающее солнце: Кесрит
02 Shon'jir / Угасающее солнце: Шон'джир
03 Kutath / Угасающее солнце: Кутат
01 Alliance Rising 2019, epub (retail), ISBN: 978-0-75641-273-9, DAW Books (with Jane S. Fancher)
Serpent's Reach / Район Змеи 1981, epub, ISBN: 0-356-08515-5, Macdonald
Alliance Space 2008, fb2, ISBN: 978-0-7564-0494-9, DAW Books
Merchanter's Luck
Forty Thousand in Gehenna / 40000 на Геене
The Deep Beyond 2017, epub (retail), DAW Books
Cuckoo's Egg
Serpent's Reach / Район Змеи
01 The Dreamstone / Эльфийский камень сна 1983, fb2
02 The Tree of Swords and Jewels / Древо мечей и камней 1983, fb2
01 Foreigner / Иноземец 2004, epub, ISBN: 978-0-7564-0251-8, DAW Books
02 Invader 1995, fb2; 2014, epub, eISBN: 9781101562659, DAW Books
03 Inheritor 1996, fb2; epub
04 Precursor 1999, fb2
05 Defender 2001, fb2
06 Explorer 2002, fb2; 2003, epub ISBN: 978-1-101-66226-7, DAW Books
07 Destroyer 2006, epub, ISBN: 978-1-101-14375-9, DAW Books
08 Pretender 2006, epub, ISBN: 978-1-1012-1863-1, DAW Books
09 Deliverer 2007, epub, ISBN: 978-1-1012-1862-4, DAW Books
10 Conspirator 2009, fb2
11 Deceiver 2011, epub, ISBN: 978-1-101-54980-3, DAW Books
12 Betrayer 2011, epub, ISBN: 978-1-101-54981-0, DAW Books
13 Intruder 2012, epub, ISBN: 978-1-101-56071-6, DAW Books
14 Protector 2013, epub, ISBN: 978-0-7564-0798-8, DAW Books
15 Peacemaker 2014, epub, ISBN: 978-1-101-63521-6, DAW Books
16 Tracker 2015, epub, ISBN: 978-0-698-16425-3, DAW Books
17 Visitor 2016, epub, ISBN: 978-0-698-16426-0, DAW Books
18 Convergence 2017, epub, ISBN: 9780698164277, DAW Books
19 Emergence 2018, epub, ISBN: 9780756414153, DAW Books
20 Resurgence 2020, epub, ISBN: 978-0-7564-1429-0, DAW Books
21 Divergence 2020, epub, ISBN: 978-0-7564-1432-0, DAW Books
Deliberations 2012, epub, Closed Circle Publication
Invitations 2013, epub, Closed Circle Publication
01 Rider at the Gate 1995, fb2, ISBN: 0-446-51781-X, Aspect / Warner Books
02 Cloud's Rider 1997, fb2, ISBN: 0-340-68912-9, New English Library
01 Fortress in the Eye of Time 2006, epub, ISBN: 9780061743931, HarperCollins
02 Fortress of Eagles 2004, epub, ISBN: 9780061743955, HarperCollins
03 Fortress of Owls 1999, fb2, ISBN: 0-06-105054-7, HarperPrism; 2004, epub, ISBN: 9780061743962, HarperCollins
04 Fortress of Dragons 2000, fb2; 2004, epub, ISBN 9780061743948, HarperCollins
05 Fortress of Ice 2006, fb2, ISBN: 0-380-97904-7, Eos / HarperCollins; epub, ISBN: 9780061743979, HarperCollins
01 Gate of Ivrel / Врата Иврел 1976, fb2
02 Well of Shiuan / Источник Шиюна 1978, fb2
03 Fires of Azeroth / Огни Азерота 1979, fb2
04 Exile's Gate / Врата Изгнанников 1988, fb2; epub, ISBN: 0-7420-9117-1, DAW Books
The Complete Morgaine 2015, epub, ISBN: 978-0-698-41043-5, DAW Books
01 Gate of Ivrel / Врата Иврел
02 Well of Shiuan / Источник Шиюна
03 Fires of Azeroth / Огни Азерота
04 Exile's Gate / Врата Изгнанников
01 Rusalka / Русалка 1989, epub
02 Chernevog / Черневог 1991, epub, ISBN: 0-345-37351-0, Del Rey
03 Yvgenie / Евгений 1992, epub, ISBN: 0-345-37943-8, Del Rey
The Sword of Knowledge 2005, fb2, ISBN: 0-7434-9875-5, Baen
01 A Dirge for Sabis (with Leslie Fish)
02 Wizard Spawn (with Nancy Asire)
03 Reap the Whirlwind (with Mercedes Lackey)
01 Hammerfall 2001, epub, ISBN: 9780061744839, HarperCollins
02 Forge of Heaven 2004, epub, ISBN: 9780061743900, HarperCollins
Ischade / Ишад 1981, fb2
Downwind / Подветренная сторона 1982, fb2
Necromant / Колдунья 1983, fb2
Witching Hour / Час ведьмы 1984, fb2
Armies of the Night / Армия ночи 1985, fb2
Dagger in the Mind / Навязчивая мысль 1986, fb2
Death in the Meadow / Смерть на лугу 1986, fb2
In the Still of the Night / В тишине ночи 1986, fb2
The Best of Friends / Лучший из друзей 1988, fb2
Winds of Fortune / Ветра судьбы 1989, fb2
Widowmaker 2004, fb2 (with Jane S. Fancher)
Legacies 2004, fb2 (with Jane S. Fancher)
Hestia 1979, fb2
Wave Without a Shore 1981, fb2, Baen
The Goblin Mirror 1994, fb2, ISBN: 0-345-38476-8, Del Rey / Ballantine
The Paladin / Паладин 2002, fb2, ISBN: 0-671-31837-3, Baen
Faery Moon 2009, epub, Closed Circle Publications
Sunfall 1981, epub
Prologue (Sunfall)
The Only Death in the City
The Haunted Tower
Ice
Nightgame
Highliner
The General
Visible Light / Видимый свет 1986, epub
Author's Introduction (Visible Light)
Cassandra / Кассандра
Threads of Time / Нити времени
Companions / Компаньоны
A Thief in Korianth / Вор в Корианте
The Last Tower / Последняя башня
The Brothers / Братья
Endpiece (Visible Light)
[b]Alternate Realities 2000, epub, ISBN: 978-0-88677-946-7, DAW Books
Port Eternity (Age Of Exploration)
Voyager in Night (Age Of Exploration)
Wave Without a Shore
The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh 2004, epub
Introduction
SUNFALL
Introduction
Prologue
The Only Death in the City (Paris)
The Haunted Tower (London)
Ice (Moscow)
Nightgame (Rome)
Highliner (New York)
The General (Peking)
Introduction to MasKs
MasKs (Venice)
VISIBLE LIGHT / Видимый свет
New Introduction
Original Introduction
Frontpiece
Cassandra / Кассандра
Threads of Time / Нити времени
Companions / Компаньоны
A Thief in Korianth / Вор в Корианте
The Last Tower / Последняя башня
The Brothers / Братья
Endpiece
OTHER STORIES
The Dark King / Повелительница тьмы (= Сумрачный бог; Добрый бог смерти)
Homecoming
The Dreamstone
Sea Change
Willow
Of Law and Magic
The Unshadowed Land
Pots
The Scapegoat / Козел отпущения
A Gift of Prophecy
Wings / Крылья
A Much Briefer History of Time
Gwydion and the Dragon / Гвидион и Дракон
Mech
The Sandman, the Tinman, and the BettyB
Swift-Spear 1986, fb2
Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth 1987, fb2
Out of Court Settlement 2011, fb2
BOOK ONE
i
If it was anywhere possible to be a child in the Family, it was possible at Kethiuy, on Cerdin. There were few visitors, no imminent hazards. The estate sat not so very far from the City and from Alpha’s old hall, but its hills and its unique occupation kept it isolated from most of Family politics. It had its lake and its fields, its garden of candletrees that rose like feathery spires among its fourteen domes; and round about its valley sat the hives, which sent their members to and from Kethiuy. All majat who would deal with Men dealt through Kethiuy, which fended one hive from another and kept peace, the peculiar talent of the Meth-marens, that sept and House of the Family which held the land. Fields extended in one direction, both human-owned and majat-owned; labs rambled off in the other; warehouses in yet a third, where azi, cloned men, gathered and tallied the wealth of hive trade and the products of the lab and the computers, which were the greatest part of that trade. Kethiuy was town as much as House; it was self-contained and tranquil, almost changeless in the terms of its owners, for Kontrin measured their lives in decades more than years, and the rare children licensed tore. place the dead had no doubt what they must be and what the order of the world was.
Raen amused herself, clipping leaves from the dayvine with short, neat shots; the wind blew and made it more difficult, and she gauged her fire meticulously, needle-beamed She was fifteen; she had carried the little gun clipped to her belt since she had turned twelve. Being Kontrin, and potentially immortal, she had still come into this world because a certain close kinsman had died of carelessness; she wished her own replacement to be long in coming. She was a skilled marksman; one of the amusements available to her was gambling, and she currently had a bet with a third cousin involving the target range.
Marksmanship, gambling, running the hedges into the field to watch the azi at work, or back again in Kethiuy, sunk it the oblivion of deepstudy or studying the lab comps until she could make the machines yield her up communication with the alien majat…such things filled her days, one very like the other. She did not play; there were years ahead for that, when the prospect of immortality began to pall and the years needed amusements to speed them past. Her present business was to learn, to gather skills that would protect that long life. The elaborate pleasures with which her elders amused themselves were not yet for her, although she looked on such with a stirring of interest. She sat on her hillside and picked an extraordinary succession of leaves off the waving vine with quick, fine shots, and reckoned that she would put in her required time at the comp board and be through by dinner, leaving the evening free for boating on Kethiuy’s lake…too hot during the day: the water cast back the white-hot sky with such glare one could not even look on it unvisored; but by night what lived in it came up from the bottom, and boats skimmed the black surface like firebugs, trolling for the fish that offered rare treat for Kethiuy’s tables. Other valleys had game, and even domestic herds, but no creature but man stayed in Kethiuy, between the hives. None could.
Raen a Sul hant Meth-maren. She was a long-boned and rangy fifteen, having likely all her height. Ilit blood mixed with Meth-maren had contributed that length of limb; and Meth-maren blood, her aquiline features. She bore a pattern on her right hand, chitinous and glittering, living in her flesh: her identity, her pledge to the hives, such as all Kontrin bore. This sign a majat could read, whose eyes could read nothing of human features. Betas went unmarked. Azi bore a tiny tattoo. The Kontrin brand was in living jewels, and she bore it for the distinction it was.
The tendril fell last, burned through. She clipped the gun to her belt and smoothly rose, pulled up the hood of her sunsuit and adjusted the visor to protect her eyes before leaving the shade. She took the long way, at the fringe of the woods, being in no particular haste: it was cooler and less steep, and nothing awaited her but studies.
A droning intruded on her attention. She looked about, and up. Aircraft passing were not unusual: Kethiuy lake was a convenient marker for anyone sight-navigating to the northern estates.
But these were low, two of them, and coming in.
Visitors. Her spirits soared. No comp this afternoon. She veered from the lab-ward course and strode off down the slope with its rocks and thread-bushes, tacking from one to the other point of the steep face with reckless abandon, reckoning of entertainments and a general cancellation of lessons.
Something skittered back in the hedge. She came to an instant halt and set her hand on her pistol: no fear of beasts, but of men, of anything that would skulk and hide.
Majat.
She picked out the shadowed form in the slatted leaves, perplexed to find it there. It was motionless in its guard-stance, half again as tall as she; faceted eyes flickered with the slightest of turns of its head. Almost she called to it, reckoning it some Worker strayed from the labs down below: sometimes their eyes betrayed them and, muddled with lab-chemicals, they lost their direction. But it should not have strayed this far.
The head turned farther, squaring to her: no Worker…she saw that clearly. The jaws were massive, the head armoured.
She could not see its emblems, to what hive it belonged, and human eyes could not see its colour. It hunched down, an assemblage of projecting points and leathery limbs, in the latticed play of sun and shade…a Warrior, and not to be approached. Sometimes Warriors came, to look down on Kethiuy for whatever their blind eyes could perceive, and then departed, keeping their own secrets. She wished she could see the badges: it might be any of the four hives, while it was only gentle blues and greens who dealt with Kethiuy—the trade of reds and golds channelled through greens. A red or gold was enormously dangerous.
...
THE ORIGIN OF STAIONERS AND MERCHANTERS
In the early twenty-first century, starprobes went out, launched by Sol Station, which diring the interval of the starprobes' travel, became a great economic power in Earth's politics.
Sol Station, a self contained orbiting "multifactory," pulled in metals, minerals, and ice from the asteroids, abandoning the practice of lofting anything up from Earth's gravity well. Since the majority of industrial cost on Earth was either in fighting gravity (lifing and transporting heavy objects) or heating things up and cooling them down (smelting and refrigeration), once a spacestation achieved the machinery to separate and smelt metals by solar power (thus becoming a "multifactory," a combination of industries all locked together in the production of goods for export to Earth (medicines, electrical power, scientific data, and processes) and for its own consumption (machinery, construction materials, oxygen from ice, and foodstuffs (from orbiting fishtanks and farms operating at industrial pace thanks to total environment control possible in such facilities.)
The result was a station capable of replicating itself endlessly at little expense; and a balance of trade which made investment and experimentation possible.
Hence, the robot starprobes which reported several stars much like the Sun, lacking habitable planets but potentially rich in metals and ice.
The theory of cryogenic suspension in sublight starflight was rejected. After all, Sol Station and the one traveling scientific station which had already been in orbit about Venus and Mars and now ventured the turbulent gravity well of Jupiter, proved that there was little difference between a working solar station and a ship.
So the first startship was modular, and while it would take years under light speed to reach the chosen star, there was no reason for the people aboard not to carry on life much as it was carried on in huge Sol Station. When it reached its destination, its payload, containing manufacturing units, would go into orbit in some rich and stable area of the designated starsystem, while the engine module would break free after assisting in this process and return to Sol Station.
It proved hardly more expensive in effort to make the mission multistage, that is, to colonize several starsystems in the same vector by using several engines and compartments and shedding each into deceleration at the time appropriate for each star. So if one part of the mission failed, another might succeed, and if anything went wrong with one engine, they had the capacity to continue on the others, or to return should it become necessary.
As it happened, all three stages worked without a hitch, and Earth had three functioning starstations. They had no ambition at all to land on a planet. Planets were too expensive at this stage, too wasteful of energy in getting up and down; mankind had decided that starstations (of which Sol Station was one) were more productive for small populations than planets were.
The voyaging starships never lost touch with Sol Station, and continually transmitted the data the scientists and tehcnicians in the colony mission were developing enroute. Life aboard went on in a mundane fashion, under the one gravity produced by acceleration; and when decelerated and parked in orbit, each starstation began a continual dataflow to Sol Station, and to each other, and to ships in passage. The result of this close community of scientists at work in new environments, as well as the research and development necessary for the guidance systems and engines for the mission, was a technological acceleration for Earth, a period of great prosperity and wild speculation as new discoveries multiplied.
The engine modules had a small crew compartment: they were designed to move greater mass than their own -- to push, in other words. Their crews had the harder life, since they were few in number and had to give up their associations with the colonists, who would live normal Stationer-style lives, hardly different than they would have lived on Sol Station. The engine-modules might have been robotized, but it was felt, first of all, that the chance of failure would be less with crewed modules, in such long voyages; and secondly that the occasional contact of human beings who had seen Earth would serve to keep the colonies from becoming too different in their isolation; the chance for instance, that a colony would grow completely alienated from Earth and shut off its contacts had occurred to Sol Station. So the primary reason for crewed ships was a psychological one.
The small crews must pass years together, and must have as normal a life as possible. Families happened, in spite of mild official discouragement, and when the first ship returned to Earth, they were offered a chance to stay. They refused, having spent too long at this to give up what to them had become a way of life. Crews grew larger (as did crew quarters) as second-generation crew took husbands and wives. Children ran and played throughout the ships, did small maintenance, and grew into crew work with the passing years, children whose lives were measured in calls at this and that starstation.
This was the origin of the merchanters and the stationers, whose lives became vastly different one from the other, but who were linked together in mutual necessity.
The arrivial of any ship in those early days was occasion for holiday.
Trade began, conducted without substance (of data by commmunications net) and with (of goods and parts carried by the ships).
What did the merchanters get out of the exchange? The improvement and care of their ships, which were their homes. Their food. Their whole lifestyle. And the freedom which began to be their whole way of life. A merchanter "family" was tightknit, even developing an accent unique to a particular ship: everyone aboard seemed to be a cousin or aunt or uncle.
Stationers got the same sort of thing -- but their populations were larger. They liked their security, the benefits their trade brought in.
Starstations expanded, built new modules and boosted them by ship to stars as near to them as Barnard's Star and Alpha Centauri are to Sol; and Sol had to get news of some of these stations secondhand, because of their distances.
There were nine such starstations -- ten, counting Sol.
They were: Alpha Base and Beta Base, Bryant's Star, Glory, Venture, Galileo, Olympus, Thule, and Eldorado.
The next starstation was sent to Pell's Star. And that star had a planet which had life, which had a sapient species, which had agriculture and the kind of luxuries which Earth had been supplying.

PELL'S STAR AND DOWNBELOW
Scientists flocked to Pell. Everyone wanted to be in on the find. Meanwhile, word of the discovery traveled at lightspeed back to Earth.
By the number of years it took that lightspeed message to get to Earth and for Earth to debate the matter and send another message the same number of lightyears distance back, trying to adjust the trade patterns to accommodate the new discovery, it was too late. Some starstations had shut down and emigrated because goods were reaching their trading partners from Pell, not Earth, and they were suddenly in a backwater area, out of the future line along which goods would flow.
Pell not only succeeded as a starstation, it was being overloaded by immigrants and sent out new colonies to Viking and Mariner; and Mariner, having discovered by telescope a planeted star near it, colonized Cyteen, which had another agricultural world.

THE BREAK WITH EARTH
Earth just did not cope with these changes fast enough. The value of its goods plummetted. It suffered an economic crisis and there began to be an outcry that the starstations and the merchanters ought to be taxed to support Earth, who after all, started the space program.
Now in one way the original decision to have manned ships paid off; some merchanters had maintained enough contact with Earth to be somewhat loyal to the Earth Company, but few stations were loyal enough to want to pay a tax. Earth was able to enforce the tax, at least, at first.
There was some shooting. Merchanters who would serve Earth were armed.
A great many people who did not like this trend left the nine starstations which began to be called the Hinder Stars.
They went to Pell or further.
But then... then a scientist at Cyteen discovered a principle that made possible Faster Than Light travel: an FTL ship.
During the passage of a lightspeed message to Earth that such a discovery might be possible, an FTL ship was launched from Cyteen and had time to tour almost every starstation in far space.

THE COMPANY WARS
Had it not been for the tax, Earth could have been in the center of things again. But Cyteen was hostile to Earth.
And Cyteen had two things: a discovery in the biology of the planet Cyteen had given them rejuv, a drug that could hold off old age for up to fifty years. Earth wanted it. Badly. Cyteen also had FTL. And that, Earth got, thanks to Pell, which got the secret and spread it.
The shooting then became serious. Some merchanters went to Cyteen and Cyteen declared its independence of the Earth Company.
Earth built fifty superFTL carriers to batter Cyteen to its knees. It named the ships after the nations of Earth.
But Cyteen, older than Earth in the matter of building FTL ships, matched their fleet.
The one thing Earth had was a majority of merchanters on Earth's side, and this included some very good starpilots who wrote new chapters in FTL operation, and who outflew and outfought Cyteen equipment, which was generally a few years more advanced than Earth's.
In FTL technology Cyteen had a slight edge, mostly because of a handful of physicists who were still at work on improvements.
In actual operating skill, the loyalists had the edge, and their ships were good enough, if not the latest.

MERCHANTER OPERATIONS DURING THE WAR
Merchanters had once been the warships: a few of the old sublights had been converted to FTL; many of the modern merchanters were launched by Pell, Earth, or Cyteen as new ships, crewed by spinoffs of older merchanter families. But the lifestyle changed radically because of FTL.
The voyages of years now ammounted to weeks spent in space.
While merchanters still looked for mates outside their ships, the difference in lifestyle of merchanters and stationers had gotten so extreme that merchanter/stationer marriages were unlikely. Merchanters associated with merchanters, and were confined to the docks at the ninth level of the rim of each wheel-like station. Along one side would be the tending machinery and access ramps of ships in dock; along the other side (in the Green and White sides of the wheel) were bars, restaurants, and hotels (called sleepovers) for spaces. On the dockside of Blue Section (which is always administrative) are the customs office, the spacer banks, security headquarters, and in short, all the nerve centers of the docks. Only military ships of ships with special clearance get to dock in a station's blue dock, and only stationers with special clearance get to live in the eight levels above, many of which have sensitive offices. Station Central is the uppermost of the blue levels.
White contains many shops that serve spacers; the levels above have shops that serve stationers, and residences of shopkeepers and medical folk. The uppermost level of white had the security detention area and police headquarters; the level just below has the medical facilities, the hospitals, and so on.
Green section on the stationer levels contains general residences, restaurants, and shops for stationers.
Red section on the docks is for insystem haulers coming in with ores and other industrial goods: it contains much of the manufacturing. This also tends to socially separate insystem spacers from FTL spacers, who do mix without fighting, but without great enthusiasm either: FTL merchanters are clannish and occasionally dangerous, tending to enforce their own law, particularly on Green dock, which is their territory.
There is little residence (but some) in red sector. Its docks have shops and manufacturers' offices and some station offices which apply exclusively to the insystem ships.
Orange section dock is either for FTL or insystemers, depending on need. It has shops, banks, and some restaurants; above are residences.
The hub has three functions: docking for null-G haulers like oreships which unload their cargoes without gravity, and which will stand off from station during crew liberties. Ore haulers are too big to dock at regular facilities. The hub also has those functions of station lifesupport and power which do not need gravity. And it has a gymnasium and recreational area for null gravity and low gravity sports.
Merchanter ships come in several classes.
There are general FTL haulers. Crew lives forward in a wheel-like cylinder that rotates to supply gravity because these ships do not often use regular engines and the force of acceleration is a nuisance, not a help to them. The cargo compartment is behind, in front of the engines. The cargo space may be of several kinds.
First it may be unheated, in which case contents will freeze in the cold of space. Some goods profit by this.
Such holds are not pressurized either.
Or the hold may be heated to various degrees. This is expensive, usually involving lifesupport sufficient to admit a worker without a spacesuit, but in most that do claim heated holds, the temperature is just above freezing. Few goods need balmy temperatures. Very few haulers can handle that kind of thing in bulk.
Or a ship may take cannisters, some of which have internal regulating systems for heat or air.
Many ships have one heated hold up front and the rest unheated.
Also most goods do not require gravity. Most holds are zero-G.
A very few ships can provide heated holds with gravity, which they get by having one or more holds included in the crew cylinder. This is very expensive transport. Often passengers ride in spare crew cabins (there is not much interstellar passenger traffic at this stage). In rare emergencies, heated one-G holds can be used for passengers.
Ships can come in all sorts of combinations.
There are also can-haulers which are nothing but a crew compartment in front and engine at the rear connected by a long bare backbone with clamps that bind up to ten or twelve huge cannisters in place. Canhaulers unload to small pusherships which then shove the cannisters into the null-G dock of station hubs.

In the normal operation of a merchanter ship, it takes cargo, leaves dock, and spends hours (or in some systems and depending on the power and load -- days) getting to the nadir of the stellar pole far enough out that the jump will not land them in the heart of the star or try to take a planet along. During this time the crew lives normally, annoyed only by the first acceleration that got them going. Normal space engines shut down then and they coast.
When they get to the nadir jump range they get a navigational fix on a star, do the elaborate calculations to determine exact location, and turn on the generation vanes, the large panels suspended on vanes about the ship like old-fashioned rocket fins -- but these provide the field which takes them into jumpspace, the Between.
Subjectively, a few minutes pass. Objectively, a week or month of Universal time has passed. This again varies according to power and mass of the ship and load, and yes, a more powerful (or less loaded) ship can overjump a weaker one and arrive first.
The ship has now been dragged out of hyperspace by the nearest gravity well in the vector it had chosen. Usually these are jump-points, brown dwarf stars of Jupiter-like objects which exist between the greater stars -- too cool to give off much light or radiation, but massive enough to make a considerable pockmock in hyperspace.
The ship is now traveling about 3/4 to 1/2 lightspeed or about 139,000 miles per second. At this rate, planets and large rocks are dangerous to it. If something went wrong at this speed in our solar system, a ship near Earth might have fourteen minutes to solve its problem before hitting the Sun -- and, of course, it takes enormous energy to turn even a hair, let alone bend a sharp turn to evade something.
If you use conventional radar, it sends out a pulse and you literally run into its bounced-back return; if you are tracking a high-speed ship moving in a different vector than your own, your pulse may not catch up to it and come back fast enough to do you any good. Remember the fourteen minutes above; and heaven help you if the ship in question is coming your way! More about communications and radar of FTL ships later. For now, suffice it to say it is a good idea to come in only at zenith of the jumppoint and to leave the point only at nadir. This regulates traffic and reduces your chance of running into someone to those of your house getting hit by a meteorite on Earth. Rare, but known to happen. Starships, after all, are not as frequent as automobiles.
If your instruments are off, of course, you could impact the jump point.
And any ship moving at in-system speeds looks like it's standing still. They can only hope you'll slow down before you get into the jump point central area.
How to shed this enormous velocity? Pulse the jump engines, which partially reforms the field and blows off some of your velocity like an invisible drag chute extended into the interface of realspace and hyperspace. You slow down to a crawl.
Now you pass tamely through the realspace near the Mass, the almost star-like object that makes the gravity well. There may be other ships already here. You can talk to them by com and even, if you wish, stop completely, link airlocks, and exchange goods outside station customs. A lot do. This passage through the jump point can take a leisurely week, if you're having fun. If you're in a hurry you can probably get on through (and be cursed by near traffic) in a day.
There is, however, a penalty for this, subspace is a harrowing experience and makes one feel awful. Moving through space too rapidly give you no time for your stomach to recover and you will progressively become sicker and worse at navigation. Take your time. It's healthier.
Also, if you string jumps (pass through several jump points without slowing down) your velocity could begin to get out of control. If you should fail once to dump speed before jumping out again, you would probably jump past any local gravity wells and get sucked into the nearest most massive star's well, exiting at a speed beyond lightspeed, which violates Einstein's principle and pockets you in a traveling discontinuity -- in other words you become a black hole and come to a spectacular end as you and the star attract each other. Since you are a very small black hole, it will swallow you without ill effect -- except to you.
So you make your exits from stars and jumppoints tamely, at a sedate speed, with due care.
Now, during the War years, you may see a military ship occupying the jump point. It is good to identify yourself rapidly and courteously beyond the computer-squeal of identity your ship constantly gives off, and to heave to if ordered to do so. You cannot match a military ship in maneuvers or jump capacity. It can go further, faster. Only if you are still 3/4 light do you have a chance of running from it before it can get up to speed or before its particle weapons and shells can reach you. But its beams go lightspeed: you are 3/4 light. You have maybe fifteen minutes lagtime before it knows what you are (your noise getting to its receptors at lightspeed). And fifteen minutes lagtime for its beams to reach where it predicts you will be fifteen minutes later (or less if you're going toward it) -- if it fired at once.
That is not a lot of maneuvering room, considering your degree of possible turning is less than a warship's, and it diminishes incrementally at 3/4 light. You have to dump most of your speed, lock on a star, and be in a favourable position to jump. Thirty minutes is not really very long to do all this. If you can do it you are probably a merchanter running with empty holds and up to no good.
They do have to guess how much mass you're carrying to know where you're likely to be (if you should turn). How much cargo you carry plays a part in this.
You could try dumping cargo.
Usually, however, the worst the military will do (if they're Union) is look you over and check your papers and question you. If they're Mazian's Fleet -- well, in the last years of the War, the Earth Company Fleet began to need troops and crew for its ship. It might impress your young men and women as troops or crew; might take your supplies, raid your cargo. Africa and Australia have been known to kill for fun. India, North Pole, Atlantic, and Pacific will mostly take supplies. The rest of the fleet are likely to take both people and cargo items.
If you meet other merchanters at a jump point -- still be careful. Ships have been taken by Union to use as spies.
Merchanters know one another by name. All on a given ship have one last name. If you say Finity's End, for instance, everyone knows this means the Neihards. So it is an age in which a man or woman's word and name for dependability are life itself. But Union knows these names too. And has access to ships that come and dock at Union ports.
This war has no borders -- except for the fleets that maintain them. It is fought in three dimensions and the front skips and moves according to where the carriers are. Merchanters more freely through the war, dock here and there, get questioned by both sides, and try as much as possible to ignore the fighting which has been going on for half a century. They act as if the war doesn't exist.
So you may be bound out of that jump point for either a Company star or a Union base. It doesn't matter. Usually. After, no one attacks stations or planets. Yet.
When you arrive at a star, you come in at the stellar zenith pole as agreed by navigational law, slow down at once, Your arrival has been reported by a jump range buoy which is a robot station which has three functions: first, it gives you a current updated computer image of the estimated positions of every object in the solar system, cutting down on the lagtime problems. Second, it adds you to the image which it now beams back to station. Third, it assigns you a lane to follow, again cutting down lagtime. You do as instructed and come in safely at reduced speed.
Station will know you have arrived an hour or so later when the message gets there (FTL ships are faster than messages). Station Central will greet you and you will talk to them as you approach. The lagtime shortens from an hour to half and hour to five minutes to no appreciable lag as you get to the station and begin docking. You match the station speed and rotation pattern, shutting down your own rotation, and locking your cylinder into docking position, then shove your nose into the docking cone, fasten clamps and wait for the crews to attack lines and hoses which provide you power, flush your tanks, take your refuse (biostuffs are precious) and give you shielded-line communications with the station.
You go out, go through customs check, and report to station offices for debriefing.
...
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