*stands up on soapbox to once again shout "C.J. CHERRYH! READ C.J. CHERRYH!"* 😂
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
*stands up on soapbox to once again shout "C.J. CHERRYH! READ C.J. CHERRYH!"* 😂
You want to keep a list of authors for whom that's a particular challenge. Tanith Lee and C. J. Cherryh have huge backlists, Eisenstein's is very out of print....
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
You want to keep a list of authors for whom that's a particular challenge. Tanith Lee and C. J. Cherryh have huge backlists, Eisenstein's is very out of print....
I'm reading through the Morgaine Cycle books and really enjoying them - lovely, indulgent prose, a tragic but overwhelmingly cool heroine, and weird, fucked up worldbuilding. And look at this gorgeous Whelan cover!
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm reading through the Morgaine Cycle books and really enjoying them - lovely, indulgent prose, a tragic but overwhelmingly cool heroine, and weird, fucked up worldbuilding. And look at this gorgeous Whelan cover!
and Lois McMaster Bujold, Mira Grant, T. Kingfisher (has one SF short story), Arkady Martine, Janet Kagan (taken from us way too soon), D.C. Fontana (and www.awesomewomenlibrary.com/bulletin-of-...), Tanith Lee, Ann Leckie, CJ Cherryh...
...ME!
...ME!
October 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
and Lois McMaster Bujold, Mira Grant, T. Kingfisher (has one SF short story), Arkady Martine, Janet Kagan (taken from us way too soon), D.C. Fontana (and www.awesomewomenlibrary.com/bulletin-of-...), Tanith Lee, Ann Leckie, CJ Cherryh...
...ME!
...ME!
🚂Mes futures lectures
🚞 La troupe de Frédéric Meurin : frederic-meurin.com/...
🚞 Chasseurs de mondes de Carolyn J. Cherryh : www.noosfere.org/liv...
🚞 Les flibustiers de la mer chimique de Marguerite Imbert : www.albin-michel-ima...
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🚂Mes futures lectures
🚞 La troupe de Frédéric Meurin : frederic-meurin.com/...
🚞 Chasseurs de mondes de Carolyn J. Cherryh : www.noosfere.org/liv...
🚞 Les flibustiers de la mer chimique de Marguerite Imbert : www.albin-michel-ima...
No, but I've read a lot of early C.J. Cherryh!
October 26, 2025 at 5:58 AM
No, but I've read a lot of early C.J. Cherryh!
Yesterday's Word Count = 530
Just wrote a section of the book 5 chapters ahead of where the current completion point*
(* the point in a WIP where the text is contious from start forward)
Just wrote a section of the book 5 chapters ahead of where the current completion point*
(* the point in a WIP where the text is contious from start forward)
October 24, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Yesterday's Word Count = 530
Just wrote a section of the book 5 chapters ahead of where the current completion point*
(* the point in a WIP where the text is contious from start forward)
Just wrote a section of the book 5 chapters ahead of where the current completion point*
(* the point in a WIP where the text is contious from start forward)
Alan Craddock for Chanur’s Venture by C.J. Cherryh (1987 edition) 🐈
October 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Alan Craddock for Chanur’s Venture by C.J. Cherryh (1987 edition) 🐈
I love our local library book sale and tonight it loved me back
Would love to hear from #BookSky 📚💙 readers familiar with any of these bc they’re new to me and I’m excited to give them a try
Would love to hear from #BookSky 📚💙 readers familiar with any of these bc they’re new to me and I’m excited to give them a try
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I love our local library book sale and tonight it loved me back
Would love to hear from #BookSky 📚💙 readers familiar with any of these bc they’re new to me and I’m excited to give them a try
Would love to hear from #BookSky 📚💙 readers familiar with any of these bc they’re new to me and I’m excited to give them a try
And here I thought this cover was mighty horny...
October 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And here I thought this cover was mighty horny...
We already have newer books in extremely close conversation with them, Kingsbury and Cherryh and Scalzi on Asimov, Varley and Stross on Heinlein to name a few. I'd rather read a new generation carrying those conversations forward than look back.
October 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
We already have newer books in extremely close conversation with them, Kingsbury and Cherryh and Scalzi on Asimov, Varley and Stross on Heinlein to name a few. I'd rather read a new generation carrying those conversations forward than look back.
The Kingsbury is itself 24 years old. The Scalzi is 20 years old. Not sure which Cherryh you're referencing.
To a 14 yr old alive now, the Kingsbury is as old as Rogue Queen was to 14 yr old me, while the Scalzi is as old as Earthlight was to me.
To a 14 yr old alive now, the Kingsbury is as old as Rogue Queen was to 14 yr old me, while the Scalzi is as old as Earthlight was to me.
October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The Kingsbury is itself 24 years old. The Scalzi is 20 years old. Not sure which Cherryh you're referencing.
To a 14 yr old alive now, the Kingsbury is as old as Rogue Queen was to 14 yr old me, while the Scalzi is as old as Earthlight was to me.
To a 14 yr old alive now, the Kingsbury is as old as Rogue Queen was to 14 yr old me, while the Scalzi is as old as Earthlight was to me.
CJ Cherryh is good though I haven't read this novel
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
CJ Cherryh is good though I haven't read this novel
Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C J Cherryh
Union technocrats had a plan for Gehenna, a plan that failed to take into account local conditions.
jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/best-...
Union technocrats had a plan for Gehenna, a plan that failed to take into account local conditions.
jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/best-...
Best Laid Plan
C. J. Cherryh’s 1983 Forty Thousand in Gehenna is an anthropological, generational, epic science fiction novel. ISFDB classifies it as the first Unionside novel (more on that later). Gehenna functiona...
jamesdavisnicoll.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C J Cherryh
Union technocrats had a plan for Gehenna, a plan that failed to take into account local conditions.
jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/best-...
Union technocrats had a plan for Gehenna, a plan that failed to take into account local conditions.
jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/best-...
Vintage book cover #41 from my collection: The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh. Cover art by Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social)
October 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Vintage book cover #41 from my collection: The Pride of Chanur by C. J. Cherryh. Cover art by Michael Whelan (@michaelwhelan.bsky.social)
I use this to illustrate the point that if we want something done, we have to do it ourselves.
I am not an AOC stan.
I like her. This is one reason why.
Some commentary in the alt-text.
From CJ Cherryh.
#TheAlliedForces
I am not an AOC stan.
I like her. This is one reason why.
Some commentary in the alt-text.
From CJ Cherryh.
#TheAlliedForces
October 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I use this to illustrate the point that if we want something done, we have to do it ourselves.
I am not an AOC stan.
I like her. This is one reason why.
Some commentary in the alt-text.
From CJ Cherryh.
#TheAlliedForces
I am not an AOC stan.
I like her. This is one reason why.
Some commentary in the alt-text.
From CJ Cherryh.
#TheAlliedForces
J'avais sept heures de train. J'avais un carnet. Les esprits de CJ Cherryh et Romain Lucazeau m'ont possédé. J'ai donc, tout naturellement, gribouillé l'ébauche d'un technothriller cathartique et parfaitement invendable. Parce que pourquoi pas. On est là pour s'amuser, non ? Pitch🧵
October 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
J'avais sept heures de train. J'avais un carnet. Les esprits de CJ Cherryh et Romain Lucazeau m'ont possédé. J'ai donc, tout naturellement, gribouillé l'ébauche d'un technothriller cathartique et parfaitement invendable. Parce que pourquoi pas. On est là pour s'amuser, non ? Pitch🧵
CJ Cherryh is absurdly good and underrated these days.
After reading a lot of Golden Age sci-fi and some of the absolute best-known New Age stuff as a kid I'm going back and reading some of the "slightly less famous" authors; CJ Cherryh, Vernor Vinge, and Octavia Butler have been absolute revelations.
In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective.
reactormag.com/exploring-ge...
reactormag.com/exploring-ge...
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
CJ Cherryh is absurdly good and underrated these days.
The Cherryh titles I dropped into ngram fell into 3 patterns:
Ones whose titles don't play nicely with ngrams. I dropped those.
Ones where the mentions per year decline fairly steadily year to year.
Cyteen. What's up with Cyteen? Did Jo Walton mention it on tor dot com around 2009?
Ones whose titles don't play nicely with ngrams. I dropped those.
Ones where the mentions per year decline fairly steadily year to year.
Cyteen. What's up with Cyteen? Did Jo Walton mention it on tor dot com around 2009?
September 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The Cherryh titles I dropped into ngram fell into 3 patterns:
Ones whose titles don't play nicely with ngrams. I dropped those.
Ones where the mentions per year decline fairly steadily year to year.
Cyteen. What's up with Cyteen? Did Jo Walton mention it on tor dot com around 2009?
Ones whose titles don't play nicely with ngrams. I dropped those.
Ones where the mentions per year decline fairly steadily year to year.
Cyteen. What's up with Cyteen? Did Jo Walton mention it on tor dot com around 2009?
After reading a lot of Golden Age sci-fi and some of the absolute best-known New Age stuff as a kid I'm going back and reading some of the "slightly less famous" authors; CJ Cherryh, Vernor Vinge, and Octavia Butler have been absolute revelations.
In the '80s and '90s, CJ Cherryh questioned and critiqued our assumptions about how gender is expressed and understood, creating science fiction narratives that reflect trans identity and experience. It's time for a retrospective.
reactormag.com/exploring-ge...
reactormag.com/exploring-ge...
Exploring Gender and Trans Identity in the Worlds of C.J. Cherryh - Reactor
The Chanur series poses key questions about gender roles, expression, and identity.
reactormag.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
After reading a lot of Golden Age sci-fi and some of the absolute best-known New Age stuff as a kid I'm going back and reading some of the "slightly less famous" authors; CJ Cherryh, Vernor Vinge, and Octavia Butler have been absolute revelations.
When a First Lady uses someone else’s words without credit, it undermines credibility and shows disrespect to the original author.
When the initiative is about education, plagiarism is especially damaging.
Kids are taught not to cheat or copy, yet the face of the program is doing exactly that.
When the initiative is about education, plagiarism is especially damaging.
Kids are taught not to cheat or copy, yet the face of the program is doing exactly that.
September 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
When a First Lady uses someone else’s words without credit, it undermines credibility and shows disrespect to the original author.
When the initiative is about education, plagiarism is especially damaging.
Kids are taught not to cheat or copy, yet the face of the program is doing exactly that.
When the initiative is about education, plagiarism is especially damaging.
Kids are taught not to cheat or copy, yet the face of the program is doing exactly that.
Please stop posting that bullshit thing about Melania Trump plagiarizing from C J Cherryh. It’s AI-generated and not true.
September 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Please stop posting that bullshit thing about Melania Trump plagiarizing from C J Cherryh. It’s AI-generated and not true.
ICYMI
SHE DID IT AGAIN
But this time
Not Michelle Obama
She plagiarized
C.J. CHERRYH
SHE DID IT AGAIN
But this time
Not Michelle Obama
She plagiarized
C.J. CHERRYH
September 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
ICYMI
SHE DID IT AGAIN
But this time
Not Michelle Obama
She plagiarized
C.J. CHERRYH
SHE DID IT AGAIN
But this time
Not Michelle Obama
She plagiarized
C.J. CHERRYH
It also really doesn't *read* like anything Cherryh would write.
September 24, 2025 at 8:11 AM
It also really doesn't *read* like anything Cherryh would write.