national bestselling author and winner of three hugo awards cj cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed foreigner trilogywith an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a hostile sentient racethe beginning of a second trilogy precursor follows a single human delegate living among aliens who are just gaining access to spacepraise for precursoran addition to cherryhs superior aliencontact seriesanother intriguing humanalien strugglekirkus reviewsa powerful look at the effects of alienation on individuals and societieslocusand cj cherryhs foreigner universesuperlatively drawn aliens and characterizationa return to the anthropological science fiction in which cherryh has made such a name is a double pleasurechicago suntimesan incisive studyincontrast of what it means to be humanlibrary journal