Cherryh-picking
I've been rereading C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series. I'm just about done, maybe a third of the way into _Chanur's Legacy_.
Cherryh's work is almost always serious in tone; some of the Foreigner books display a bit of humor ("Salad!"), but stark horror is more her style. But _Chanur's Legacy_ is suffused with understated humor. Poor hapless Hallan Meras, Hilfy's fastidious stsho passenger, and the whole sequence with the mahen miner and his exploding rocks (which I haven't gotten to - they're still at Urtur Station)... It's not laugh-out-loud stuff, more shake-my-head-and-chuckle, but this book remains one of my comfort reads.
Cherryh's work is almost always serious in tone; some of the Foreigner books display a bit of humor ("Salad!"), but stark horror is more her style. But _Chanur's Legacy_ is suffused with understated humor. Poor hapless Hallan Meras, Hilfy's fastidious stsho passenger, and the whole sequence with the mahen miner and his exploding rocks (which I haven't gotten to - they're still at Urtur Station)... It's not laugh-out-loud stuff, more shake-my-head-and-chuckle, but this book remains one of my comfort reads.