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"Hunter of Worlds"
May. 9th, 2004 02:22 pmHunter of Worlds was one of C. J. Cherryh's earliest novels; as far as I can tell, only Gate of Ivrel and Brothers of Earth predate it. Nonetheless, it already displays the hallmarks of Cherryh's writing - a dense and convoluted plot, carefully designed alien races and cultures (complete with several pages of glosses of their languages), and considerable exploration of the relations among biology, culture and psyche. ( Review )
It's hard to do justice to such an intricate novel in such a short review. I judge Hunter of Worlds to be of the middle rank among Cherryh's works; it does not have the psychological depth of, say, Cyteen or the slam-bang action of the Chanur trilogy, and the Faded Sun trilogy does far more with the theme of the isolated individual thrust among aliens. But, allowing for the limitations of scope, it's well worth reading, and I'm glad I finally got my hands on it.
It's hard to do justice to such an intricate novel in such a short review. I judge Hunter of Worlds to be of the middle rank among Cherryh's works; it does not have the psychological depth of, say, Cyteen or the slam-bang action of the Chanur trilogy, and the Faded Sun trilogy does far more with the theme of the isolated individual thrust among aliens. But, allowing for the limitations of scope, it's well worth reading, and I'm glad I finally got my hands on it.
