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Original Title:	The Pride of Chanur
ISBN:	0886772923 (ISBN13: 9780886772925)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Chanur #1
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1983)

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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 -- a communicative, spacefaring species hitherto unknown -- and he was a prisoner of his discoverer/ 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.

Cover art by Michael Whelan

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Title	:	The Pride of Chanur (Chanur #1)
Author	:	C.J. Cherryh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	January 5th 1982 by DAW (first published January 1st 1981)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera

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3 stars.The quality of the recording wasn't the best and I'm not sure about the narrator either. The story is actually quite interesting as it's about a cat-like bi-pedal matriarchal trading ship captain rescuing a human escaping from slavers. She recognised that the human is sentient and risked her own crew to rescue him, knowing the dire consequences. There's quite a bit of interesting world-building that was difficult to grasp because of the quality of the recording and the narration. I'm

As written in other reviews, Cherryh tends to dump the reader into a situation at which point it's sink or swim. The downside to this is that it may not be to the taste of everyone but, if one sticks with the story, the reader is rewarded with a tale rich in imagery, vision, and plot. Her works all share this similar vein and The Pride of Chanur is no exception.We are taken on a journey of first-contact, though not from the human perspective. Instead of glossing over the language and familiarity

Number 144 on my SFF reading project list. This was a rollicking good space opera--lots of alien life forms, plots of intrigue, plenty of things going boom! I dont know about you, but I cant exist on a reading diet of only serious, thoughtful books and this provided a fun, relaxing romp through the universe when I needed one.Cherryh writes aliens well. I loved the lion people of AnuurnThe Pride of Chanur may have been the name of their vessel, but they are also socially arranged into prides, as

I have complete respect for Cherryh. I've been reading her for almost thirty years and I've made it through most of her novels, but as with most writers and their works, there are a few you can immediately connect with and a few you can't.Don't get me wrong, I think this novel is pretty solid when I think about it in isolation with the rest of Cherryh's work, but I don't think I'd ever call it a classic. It definitely has some really cool elements, however, which is somewhat marred by my

I liked this series! An all-female crew of cat people finds a poor lost human male. Nobody in this part of space has ever encountered a human being before, so the crew take pity on the poor creature. I mean, you can't let a male out of the ship! He is too excitable to fend for himself! I found myself chuckling at the sexism exhibited by the female protagonists. We men have populated plenty of books with a token, beautiful female. This is PAYBACK! This book is not for those without a sense of

Definitely a high 3.5 stars, but not quite a 4 for me, Cherryhs _The Pride of Chanur_ combines space opera with some gritty hard-ish sf elements in the beginning of a saga that deals with the political and economic ramifications of first contact. In this first volume of the Chanur saga we follow the exploits of a crew of Hani (lion-like aliens) on the eponymous merchant space freighter The Pride of Chanur. Expecting nothing more than a routine run across their trade routes, Pyanfar Chanur,

This felt like a mediocre late 70's/early 80's sci-fi TV series made for teenagers. Maybe not the best choice for my first C.J. Cherryh read.The concept isn't a bad one, a first contact experience portrayed from the perspective of the aliens. However, it seems like the author was trying to impress with the diversity of alien species, languages and weird names, and never evolved the story beyond a kind of galactic chase, with the protagonists pursued by devious pirates. The main characters,