C. J. Cherryh

Turns out they've been designing laser pistol heat sinks for decades.

Larry Niven, CJ Cherry, JS Dews.

Liquid cooling ones, too.

The article goes there, too.

And reading submissions for Vows and Valentines.

So we dusted off an old favorite, the Chanur saga by C.J. Cherryh, to chat about today.

Yay.

I love these books so much.

Uh, so we're having trouble reading.

Um, but we do know Chanur really well.

We love C.J. Cherryh-

Mm-hmm

The magic becomes horrifying because it violates the rules of our safest intellectual spaces.

Man, that tension between human progress and ancient untamed magic, that's basically the entire thematic engine of CJ Cherryh's The Dreaming Tree, isn't it?

It is.

It's a masterwork of environmental fantasy.

Exactly.

What happens when alien encounters force humans to stop looking outward and completely reevaluate themselves? Let's start with CJ Cherryh's 1982 novel, The Pride of Chanur.

This book is a brilliant surgical subversion of the standard space opera tropes.

It really is.