Cherryh’s Foreigner Universe series, which from the publication of its initial volume in 1994 has been chronicling the increasingly complicated interaction of a population of lost-in-space humans and their not-as-human-as-they-appear hosts, the atevi. The occasion for Walton’s remarks was C.J. Cover by Todd Lockwood.īy happy accident, as I was working on this column I was also paging through Jo Walton’s excellent collection of retrospective review essays, What Makes This Book So Great, and noted her chapter on ‘‘Re-reading long series,’’ in which she points out not only the pleasures of taking extended rambles through invented worlds, but the structural virtue of developing a narrative space in which ‘‘the books illuminate each other and the longer story… as the series progresses.’’
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