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C. J. Cherryh: award-winning science fiction books

C. J. Cherryh has 13 science fiction books recognized by the Hugo, Locus and Nebula Awards, including 2 winners.

Award wins

Cyteen by C. J. Cherryh, book cover

Cyteen

by C. J. Cherryh

Novel · 1988

Hugo winnerLocus winner

ARIANE EMORY IS DEAD. BUT NOT FOR LONG. WHERE IS ARIANE? For fifty years, Dr. Ariane Emory has dominated politics on Cyteen Station. Because Dr. Emory controls Reseune, a city-sized factory that creates the one item essential to the planet's wealth.

The Scapegoat by C. J. Cherryh, book cover

The Scapegoat

by C. J. Cherryh

Novella · 1985

Locus recognitionHugo recognition

"The Scapegoat" is a science fiction novella by American writer C. J. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe. It deals with a war in which the two opposing species can not communicate with one another and do not know how to stop the conflict.

Cuckoo's Egg by C. J. Cherryh, book cover

Cuckoo's Egg

by C. J. Cherryh

Novel · 1985

Hugo recognition

Cuckoo's Egg is a science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, which introduces a fictional race raising a human boy. It was published by DAW Books in 1985, and there was also a limited hardcover printing by Phantasia Press in the same year.

Invader by C. J. Cherryh, book cover

Invader

by C. J. Cherryh

Novel · 1995

Locus recognition

SECOND CONTACT Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the atevi , it unexpectedly returns to orbit overhead, threatening the stability of both atevi and human governments.

Visitor by C. J. Cherryh, book cover

Visitor

by C. J. Cherryh

Novel · 2016

Locus recognition

It's been a year of upheaval, since Bren Cameron's return from space - a year since he and the aiji-dowager, one of his most powerful atevi allies, returned home from their two-year interstellar mission to find the government overthrown and their world in chaos.

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