The Pride of Chanur
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The first volume of the Chanur saga, set in the Alliance-Union universe, featuring the alien crew of spaceship The Pride of Chanur and the human Tully. No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-fingered, Tully was the sole surviving member of his company of humans―a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown―and he was a prisoner of his discoverers and captors―the sadistic, treacherous kif―until his escape onto the hani ship, The Pride of Chanur. Little did he know when he threw himself upon the mercy of The Pride and her crew that he put the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiled the peace of the Compact itself...for the information this fugitive held could be the ruin or glory of any of the species at Meetpoint Station.
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5 primary booksChanur
Chanur is a 5-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1981 with contributions by C. J. Cherryh.
Series
6 primary books23 released booksAlliance-Union Universe
Alliance-Union Universe is a 23-book series with 6 primary works first released in 1976 with contributions by C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher.
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Fun book and interesting universe I plan to revisit in the future. My only complaint is that Tully's character development never developed, at least not to a satisfactory level. I get that since the story is told through the eyes of Pyanfar and thus filtered through her own perceptions and biases, it would have been nice to have seen Tully move further beyond half-crazed and scared.
I liked this first book of the Chanur series. I especially liked the way Pyanfar figured out how to deal with the kif and how knowing Tully can be useful. I look forward to reading the next book, Chanur's Venture.
