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Book SynopsisSFWA Grand Master Cherryh returns to the Hugo-award winning Alliance-Union Universe with a thrilling entry in her far-reaching sci-fi saga.For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins.
Ross and Fallon, crew members of the
Galway, believe the unidentified ship belongs to Pell and has come to investigate another massive ship docked at Alpha,
The Rights of Man. Though
Rights is under the command of the Earth Company, it is not quite perfected—and its true purpose is shrouded in mystery.
James Robert Neihart, captain of
Finity''s End—a huge fas
Trade ReviewPraise for Alliance Rising
"SFWA Grand Master C.J Cherryh and Jane Fancher team up to create
another exciting entry in Cherryh's extensive Alliance-Union Universe." —
Kirkus Reviews"Cherryh and Fancher ground this fine work in the difficult choices that their characters must make in the face of an uncertain future.
The economics and sociopolitics are as riveting as space battles, enhancing this welcome addition to the Alliance-Union saga." —
Publishers Weekly"[
Alliance Rising] showcases a concern—common to Cherryh's other novels—with organisations and bureaucracies, with systems and societies, and how such wider contexts shape the people (ambitious or content, well-meaning or malicious) who operate within them.... Cherryh and Fancher deploy
an anthropological eye." —Tor.com
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Alliance Rising serves to whet the appetite, not just for the second novel in the Hinder Stars sub-series but also
to visit and re-visit the full Alliance-Union backlist of novels." —nerds of a feather, flock together
