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Trade ReviewPraise for Downbelow Station:Winner of the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel“[
Downbelow Station] has
a marvellous perspective on humanity in the wider universe.... The plot is a complex maneuvering of factions and realignment of interests. There are space battles, and there are economics of space stations.... It’s a novel about desperate people, desperate spacestations, desperate aliens, a desperate spacefleet that’s out of choices.” —Tor.com
“A solid, vividly realized background; excellent characterization of humans and aliens; and an ability to keep a story moving…
Intelligent space adventure, conceived and executed on a grand scale.” —
Booklist
“Take one highly vulnerable space station. Pack it with realistic characters. And then start a war. You'll end up with 1982's Hugo winner,
Downbelow Station, by C.J. Cherryh — and
a hell of a story.” —io9
"Cherryh has created her strongest character and
her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization, and war." —
Questar"
Full of imagination, action, and understandable, sympathetic characters...." —
Analog
“The
well-drawn variety of backgrounds and motivations of the characters is the work’s strength.” —
VOYA “
Downbelow Station is
a fascinating, complex deep-space-war political novel with a lot of subtle twists.” —
Fantasiae
