Cyteen
by:
C.J. Cherryh (author)
The Hugo Award-winning SF saga is now available in one complete trade paperback edition, containing Cyteen: The Betrayal, The Rebirth and The Vindication. "A psychological novel, a murder mystery and an examination of power on a grand scale, encompassing light years and outsize lifetimes".--Locus.
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The Hugo Award-winning SF saga is now available in one complete trade paperback edition, containing Cyteen: The Betrayal, The Rebirth and The Vindication. "A psychological novel, a murder mystery and an examination of power on a grand scale, encompassing light years and outsize lifetimes".--Locus.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446671279 (0446671274)
ASIN: 0446671274
Publish date: 1995-09-01
Publisher: Aspect
Pages no: 696
Edition language: English
Uusally I love a complex plot full of politics and people playing games against one another, but this time I just couldn't get into it. I'll try reading something else of her's instead.Library copy.
Read the full review here.The scope of this novel is huge: an in depth study of power, examination of the difference in the psychology of a ‘natural-born’ person and that of a manufactured mind, the story of a ruthless genius, her death and subsequent cloning, and the experiences of the clone hersel...
Personally I found the first few chapters a bit boring in my first read, but things become more interesting as Ari II grows up, and when finished I found myself love and hate all the main characters. It's interesting to see how the "Union" envisioned by Cherryh is so radically different yet eerily s...
I really liked Cherryh's Chanur, Faded Sun, and Foreigner novels when I was younger, but for some reason never touched anything in the Alliance/Union universe. I can see I'll have to change that--though I've read that the Union is the villain in most of them, which is going to feel slightly odd afte...
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