When Phoenix is slow to return, some of the colonists choose to abandon the station in crude parachuting landers (much akin to NASA's Project Mercury), despite the efforts of the remaining Pilot's Guild to retain the colonists and control, until the space station becomes unviable and is abandoned entirely. When the refueled Phoenix leaves to explore the local space and establish a further station, the colonists become restless. The Pilot's Guild, comfortable with the power it has accrued during the emergency, and stripped of its best elements by the battle to refuel, has become oppressive and oligarchic. The humans build their station in orbit around the atevi world, but tensions build between the colonists and the Phoenix crew. The habitable environment that the damaged starship can reach is the homeworld of the atevi, a green and living world, already populated by aliens with steam-age technology. Lost to this effort are many of the best and bravest of the crew.
Sketched in the preamble is the heroic effort to refuel Phoenix in the environs of a hostile sun, and navigate the lost starship to a more habitable environment. Phoenix is carrying colonists and equipment to establish a new space station to extend Earth's interstellar trade empire. A brief preamble to the first book describes a system failure that leaves the faster-than-light colony ship Phoenix stranded in a far-flung reach of space, without any idea of how to get home, completely unable even to locate Sol in the visible stars. The Foreigner series opens with the failure of a starship. Defiance (scheduled publishing date: October 17, 2023).Four of the books were shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Cherryh has also self-published two ebook short story prequels to the series, "Deliberations" (October 2012) and "Invitations" (August 2013).Ĭherryh calls the series "First Contact". Currently twent-one novels have been published between 19. It consists of a series of semi-encapsulated trilogy arcs (or sequences) that focus on the life of Bren Cameron, the human paidhi, a translator-diplomat to the court of the ruling atevi race. The series centers on the descendants of a ship lost in transit from Earth en route to found a new space station. The Foreigner series is a science fiction book series set in a fictional universe created by American writer C. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook Michael Whelan (book 1), Todd Lockwood (others)
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