The Morgaine Cycle — (1976-1988) Publisher: Scattered about the galaxy were the time-space, gates of a vanished alien race. Long before the rise of the native civilizations, they had terrorized a hundred worlds — not from villainy but from folly. Now the task was to destroy their potency for mischief. This is the story of one such Gate.

Alliance-Union — (1980-2009) The Alliance-Union novels are centered around the Company Wars. C.J. Cherryh says “The novels in this universe, except Hellburner and Heavy Time, and Cyteen and Regenesis, can be read completely out of order… just like real history.” Publisher: Earth’s colonial enterprise, founded on a stringof planetless stars, fell apart when orders to solve problems lagged a long time behind the reality of the situation. Distance made it impossible to maintain the close control Earth wanted to exercise, and Earth’s ill-advised orders provoked rebellion among the colonies when the discovery of Faster-Than-Light travel suddenly brought Earth into close contact and frequent contact with the colonies. Cyteen had outright defied Earth’s visa requirements and founded a runaway colony, its population deliberately augmented by cloned-man establishEarth’sments. Pell Station attempted to stand by its allegiance to Earth. So did other colonies, fearing the strangeness developing at Cyteen.

The Company Wars

Unionside (Cyteen):

The Faded Sun:

The Future of the Alliance-Union and related stories:

Chanur Saga — (1981-1992) Publisher: No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company — a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown — and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ captors the sadistic, treacherous kif, until his escape onto the hani ship The Pride of Chanur. Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of The Pride and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself. For the information this fugitive held could be the ruin or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station.

Merovingen Nights Anthologies — (1985-1991) These are anthologies of Shared World stories set in Merovin.

Ealdwood — (1983) Publisher: It was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed only with fairy voices. In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place — the small forest of Ealdwood — which kept the magic intact, and protected the old ways. And there was one who dwelt there, Arafel the Sidhe, who had more pride and love of the world as it used to be than any of her kind. But fear of the world of Faery ran deep in the hearts of men, and when Ciaran Cuilean, Lord of Caer Wiell, a man with Elvish blood in his veins, found himself the object of increasing distrust and suspicion from his men, his king, and even his own family, he knew he must once again put his humanity aside and return to Ealdwood. For shadows of a newly awakened evil swarmed across both lands, and unless Ciaran reclaimed his haunted weapons from the Tree of Swords and joined Arafel, he would see this evil overtake not only the warm hearthstones of the mortal keeps but the silvery heart of Ealdwood itself!

Foreigner — (1994-2013) Publisher: The first book in C.J.Cherryh’s eponymous series, Foreigner begins an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft who crash-land on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient alien race.  From its beginnings as a human-alien story of first contact, the Foreigner series has become a true science fiction odyssey, following a civilization from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien species in distant sectors of space. It is the masterwork of a truly remarkable author.

Nighthorse — (1995-1996) Publisher: Stranded on a distant planet that abounds with fertile farmland, human colonists appear to be in paradise. But all the native animals communicate by telepathy, projecting images that drive humans mad. Only Nighthorses stand between civilization and madness. When a flare of human emotion spreads to all the horses, chaos erupts.

Gene Wars — (2001-2004) Publisher: One of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C.J. Cherryh has been enthralling audiences for nearly thirty years with rich and complex novels. Now at the peak of her career, this three-time Hugo Award winner launches her most ambitious work in decades, Hammerfall, part of a far-ranging series, The Gene Wars, set in an entirely new universe scarred by the most vicious of future weaponry, nanotechnology. In this brilliant novel — possibly Cherryh’s masterwork — the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet. “The mad shall be searched out and given to the Ila’s messengers. No man shall conceal madness in his wife, or his son, or his daughter, or his father. Every one must be delivered up.”—The Book of the Ila’s Au’itMarak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world. For years he has successfully hidden the visions that plague him — voices pulling him eastward, calling Marak, Marak, Marak, amid mind-twisting visions of a silver tower. But when his secret is discovered, Marak is betrayed by his own father and forced to march in an endless caravan with the rest of his world’s madmen to the Ila’s city of Oburan. Instead of death, Marak finds in Oburan his destiny, and the promise of life — if he can survive what is surely a suicidal mission. The Ila wants him to discover the source of the voices and visions that afflict the mad. Despite the danger sof the hostile desert, tensions within the caravan, and his own excruciating doubts, Marak miraculously reaches his goal — only to be given another, even more impossible mission by the strange people in the towers. According to these beings who look like him yet act differently than anyone he has ever known, Marak has a slim chance to save his world’s people from the wrath of Ila’s enemies. But to do so, he must convince them all — warring tribes, villagers, priests, young and old, as well as the Ila herself — to follow him on an epic trek across the burning desert before the hammer of the Ila’s foes falls from the heavens above. Written with deceptive simplicity and lyricism, this riveting, fast-paced epic of war, love, and survival in a brave new world marks a major achievement from the masterful C.J. Cherryh.

Hestia — (1979) Publisher: An early Cherryh novel about colonists on an alien world and their interactions with the catlike natives, centering on a young engineer sent to solve the colonists’ problems, and his relationship with one of the natives. Major themes in this novel include sexual liberation, sexual aberration, hypocrisy of social mores, and responsibility toward indigenous peoples.

Wave without a Shore — (1981) Publisher: In this science fiction novel from one of the genre’s leading female writers, the inhabitants of the planet Freedom decide what constitutes reality — and they are selective. C.J.Cherryh has twice won the Hugo Award and is the recipient of numerous other awards and honours.

Sunfall — (1981) Publisher: The Hugo Award-winning author of “The Chronicles of Morgaine” and “Exile’s Gate” returns with a tale of the future fate of Earth. Humankind has now conquered the stars and left the once-mighty cities of Earth to confront their destinies — and possible extinction — alone.

Visible Light — (1986) Publisher’s Weekly: Although Cherryh is the author of many novels, the introduction to this collection of short fiction provides her with a rare opportunity to speak directly to the reader. What we get from this former history teacher is a lecture that equates her light, romantic SF with the truth of history and myth. After this pretentious opening, the stories themselves seem even more meager. Several of them, she admits, were initially rejected or discarded and sat in the drawer for years. Her short novel ”Companions” is unnecessarily elongated, but tells an interesting story of an explorer who may be facing a new life form that mysteriously fails to register on mechanical sensors. The best entry, ”A Thief in Korianth,” is an early, much superior version of the author’s 1985 novel Angel with the Sword. This will be of greatest interest to fans of Cherryh’s novels.

The Goblin Mirror —(1992) Publisher: Things weren’t right in the little kingdom of Maggiar, so the princes Bogdan and Tamas set off to seek an answer to the kingdom’s troubles in the world over the mountain, a world they knew only from legends. But that glorious place was great no more. The goblins had declared war, and no one — especially not visitors were safe from the raging battles, the darkest sorcery, and the evil that roamed the land…

Faery in Shadow —(1993) Author’s description: Damned by Faery for the patricide he committed to save his brother, Caith macSliabhin treads the shadowy side of Faery with one of the Dark Sidhe, a pooka (damned by Faery for goodness) as his only companion.

Lois and Clark: Superman — (1996) Publisher: Lives were at stake on the far side of the world; and no other person on Earth except Superman stood a chance of helping those people if that dam went. Four more dams were downriver. That whole region, rocked by earthquakes and deluged by spring rains, was in imminent danger. In this exciting novel, author C.J. Cherryh takes us deep into the private lives and thrilling adventures of Superman and Lois Lane. As Superman struggles desperately half a world away to save a village threatened by a bursting dam, Lois Lane throws herself into the rescue effort at a collapsed hotel in Metropolis — and emerges a hero. Caught in the glare of national media attention, nothing in her life will ever be the same again… including her relationship with Clark Kent.

The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh — (2004) Publisher: Featuring the short stories, novellas, and novelettes of multiple award-winning author C.J. Cherryh, this volume is a must-have for fans and newcomers alike. It includes stories that originally appeared in her earlier collections, in magazines, and in other collections from DAW and other publishers. This special volume will include an introduction by Cherryh, written exclusively for this book.