Forty Thousand in Gehenna (Alliance-Union Universe)

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Paperback, 448 pages

English language

Published Sept. 4, 1984 by DAW.

ISBN:
978-0-88677-429-5
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When forty thousand human colonists are abandoned on a planet called Gehenna for political reasons, and re-supply ships fail to arrive, collapse seems imminent. Yet over the next two centuries, the descendants of the original colonists survive despite all odds by entering a partnership with the planet's native intelligence, the lizardlike burrowing calibans.

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reviewed Forty Thousand in Gehenna (Alliance-Union Universe) by C. J. Cherryh

Good themes, and story, cold writing

I did quite enjoy the theme, and the story that was told here, and it managed to really surprise me a couple of times, but the cold kind of reporting style writing didn't quite gel with me too well. And made it feel more dour and heavy that I feel it needed to be.

Subjects

  • Fantasy
  • Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction - General
  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Fiction / General
  • 40,000 in Gehenna