History Creator / CJCherryh

American SpeculativeFiction author, fairly prolific. She was a Classics teacher before working full-time as a writer, with a degree in Latin and a Masters in Classics. Unsurprisingly given the humanities background, her works tend more towards examining the social implications of things. Has written a fair amount of fantasy, but she's best known for her science fiction, having won two [[HugoAward Hugos]] for novels and one for a short story. Most of the science fiction elements in her stories tend to be of the "[[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard]]" variety, with FasterThanLightTravel being the only deviation from currently understood physics, but, her works fall more in line with social science fiction.

American SpeculativeFiction author, fairly prolific. She was a Classics teacher before working full-time as a writer, with a degree in Latin and a Masters in Classics. Unsurprisingly given the humanities background, her works tend more towards examining the social implications of things. Has written a fair amount of fantasy, but she's best known for her science fiction, having won two [[HugoAward Hugos]] for novels and one for a short story. Most of her science fiction tends to be of the "[[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard]]" variety (though not in style), with FasterThanLightTravel being the only deviation from currently understood physics.

* HumansThroughAlienEyes - ''The Pride of Chanur''

* FantasticRacism

* GrimUpNorth - Tristen's ultimate origin... probably.

* SpaceFighter - ''Hellburner'' centers on a fairly realistic SpaceFighter -- the titular Hellburner. Being essentially a carrier launched missile-firing-missile it is exceptionally difficult and physically punishing to fly.

* OwlBeDamned - Owl in the Fortress series, especially in the beginning.

* HoYay - Tristen and Cefwyn, who make a good OT3 with Ninevrise. Also Justin and Grant in ''Literature/{{Cyteen}}'', including some nice art on Cherryh's own site.

American female SpeculativeFiction author, fairly prolific. Was a Classics teacher before working full-time as a writer, with a degree in Latin and a Masters in Classics. Unsurprisingly given the humanities background, her works tend more towards examining the social implications of things. Has written a fair amount of fantasy, but she's best known for her science fiction, having won two [[HugoAward Hugos]] for novels and one for a short story. Most of her science fiction tends to be of the "[[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard]]" variety (though not in style), with FasterThanLightTravel being the only deviation from currently understood physics.

** The ''MorgaineCycle'', essentially fantasy novels but with a tenuous tie-in to the ''Alliance/Union'' chronology

** The ''Literature/ChanurNovels'', in which the viewpoint characters are alien [[CatPeople lion-like creatures]].

American female SpeculativeFiction author, fairly prolific. Was a Classics teacher before working full-time as a writer, with a degree in Latin and a Masters in Classics. Unsurprisingly given the humanities background, her works tend more towards examining the social implications of things. Has written a fair amount of fantasy, but she's best known for her science fiction, having won two Hugos for novels and one for short story. Most of her science fiction tends to be of the "[[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard]]" variety (though not in style), with FasterThanLightTravel being the only deviation from currently understood physics.

American female SpeculativeFiction author, fairly prolific. Was a Classics teacher before working full-time as a writer, with a degree in Latin and a Masters in Classics. Unsurprisingly given the humanities background, her works tend more towards examining the social implications of things. Has written a fair amount of fantasy, but she's best known for her science fiction, having won two Hugos for novels and one for short story. Most of her science fiction tends to be of the "[[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness hard]]" variety, with FasterThanLightTravel being the only deviation from currently understood physics.

* ''The Dreaming Tree'', HighFantasy with elves

** The ''ChanurNovels'', in which the viewpoint characters are alien [[CatPeople lion-like creatures]].
** The ''{{Morgaine Cycle}}'', essentially fantasy novels but with a tenuous tie-in to the ''Alliance/Union'' chronology
* The ''{{Literature/Foreigner}}'' 'verse, dealing with the troubles of Bren Cameron, liaison between a [[LostColony stranded human populace]] and a world of aliens with [[RubberForeheadAliens deceptively humanoid appearance]] and very [[InhumanEmotion nonhuman psychology]].

Universes/series:
* Literature/AllianceUnion, which contains many series, some only lightly connected:
** The {{Morgaine Cycle}}, essentially fantasy novels but with a tenuous tie-in to the Alliance-Union chronology
** The ChanurNovels, in which the viewpoint characters are alien [[CatPeople lion-like creatures]].
** The Faded Sun trilogy, centered around a desert-based alien warrior race
** The Rider/Finisterre novels, a planet-set adventure with a number of WildWest elements.

* The Fortress series, HighFantasy centered on the friendship between Tristen, a reborn ancient king and Cefwyn, the current ruler of his lands.
* Russian series, a magical ghost story set in a Slavic (vs generic European) setting
* ''The Dreaming Tree'', HighFantasy with elves

Stand-alone works:

Her works display examples of:

* DysfunctionJunction: [[FinitysEnd A boy abandoned by his family to the plight of an addict mother for two decades.]] [[{{Tripoint}} A boy raised by an abusive mother, the product of rape and kidnapped by his father's ship.]] [[{{Union}} A woman raised to be her own clone and having to fight off her own predatory sexuality and deal with the raped clone of a man she wanted to rape... twice, while growing up.]] If there was a happy family in her universe, Cherryh killed it with fire.

* RapeIsLove: In ''Tripoint'', Tom has to deal with a ''nightwalker'', who shows her loneliness and desire for any sort of human contact by repeatedly and sadomasochistically raping him.

** The {{MorgaineCycle}}, essentially fantasy novels but with a tenuous tie-in to the Alliance-Union chronology

* The Dreaming Tree, HighFantasy with elves

* Literature/ThePaladin -- LowFantasy martial-arts story set in essentially medieval China, in which pig-girl Taizu turns up on exiled swordsmaster Saukendar's doorstep to learn the skills she needs for revenge.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality - The Atevi in the ''Foreigner'' series who don't have the concepts of love or friendship, but do have something called "man'chi". Bitter experience has show that humans and atevi shouldn't mix except through the one authorized translator-ambassador.

* CrystalDragonJesus / CorruptChurch - The state religion in the Fortress series.

* HumansThroughAlienEyes: The Pride of Chanur
* IntrepidMerchant-Pyanfar Chanur

** Her novelette "Pots" was published in Janet Morris's anthology "Afterwar"...and was submitted after Morris complained that she was getting a lot of (unwanted) post-apop stories about elves. Morris took the story anyway - probably because these elves had spaceships, AI moonrovers, and rayguns.

* RapeIsLove: In ''Tripoint'', Tom has to deal with a ''nightwalker'', who shows her loneliness and desire for any sort of human contact by repeatedly and sadomasochistaclly raping him.

** Also a felicitous number to the [[Literature/{{Foreigner}} atevi]].

* DysfunctionJunction: [[FinitysEnd A boy abandoned by his family to the plight of an addict mother for two decades.]] [[{{Tripoint}}A boy raised by an abusive mother, the product of rape and kidnapped by his father's ship.]] [[{{Union}} A woman raised to be her own clone and having to fight off her own predatory sexuality and deal with the raped clone of a man she wanted to rape... twice, while growing up.]] If there was a happy family in her universe, Cherryh killed it with fire.

* DysfunctionJuncion: [[FinitysEnd A boy abandoned by his family to the plight of an addict mother for two decades.]] [[{Tripoint}}A boy raised by an abusive mother, the product of rape and kidnapped by his father's ship.]] [[{{Union}} A woman raised to be her own clone and having to fight off her own predatory sexuality and deal with the raped clone of a man she wanted to rape... twice, while growing up.]] If there was a happy family in her universe, Cherryh killed it with fire.

** Also a felicitous number to the [[{{Foreigner}} atevi]].