"One of the best long-running SF series in existence.... Cherryh remains one of the most talented writers in the field." --"Publishers Weekly" "Some of the finest work of Cherryh's long and distinguished career."--"Locus " "My favorite science fiction series is C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner universe. Cherryh deftly balances alien psychology and human vanities in a character caught between being human and part of an alien race."--"Denver"" Post " "There is plenty of intrigue...marvelous attention to detail that makes the culture of the "atevi "one of the most complex, multi-layered creations in science fiction.... The Foreigner series is about as good as it gets...so finely and densely wrought that you may end up dreaming of sable-skinned giants with gold eyes, and the silver spun delicacy of interstellar politics."--SF Site "A seriously probing, thoughtful, intelligent piece of work, with more insight in half a dozen pages than most authors manage in half a hundred."--Kirkus "Cherryh superbly crafts complex intrigues and alien races possessed of integrity, as well as a sense of otherness."--"Library Journal" "A large new Cherryh novel is always welcome...a return to the anthropological science fiction in which she has made such a name is a double pleasure.... Superlatively drawn aliens and characterization."--"Chicago"" Sun-Times"

C. J. Cherryh planned to write since the age of ten. When she was older, she learned to use a type writer while triple-majoring in Classics, Latin and Greek. At 33, she signed over her first three books to DAW and has worked with DAW ever since. She can be found at cherryh.com.