Re: (Meetpoint) Brothers of Earth by C J Cherryh

On Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:35:28 -0700, Don_from_AZ
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Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
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On 7 Jan 2025 14:12:27 -0000, jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:
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Brothers of Earth  (Hanan Rebellion, volume 1) by C J Cherryh
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Castaway Kurt Morgan will live the rest of his life among the humanoid
nemet. The rest of Morgan's life might not be long. Nemet know humans
as would-be conquerors and brutes. Why trust Morgan?
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-the-rains-came-tumbling-down

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Although /some/ of her series make sense and might even be
intentionally set in the same future, I suspect that others are the
result of the publisher's wanting every book to be in a Series.
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I don't recall /ever/ believing that /Brothers of Earth/ and /Hunter
of Worlds/ had anything in common except the author.
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A lot of mine were SFBC editions, some quite early. Indeed, my first
CJ Cherryh was a genuine series: The Faded Sun. After that, anything
she wrote was a mandatory purchase/read.
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Being this tight with SFBC may or may not have affected availability.

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The only thing I have read of Cherryh's was many years ago. I started
"The Faded Sun: Kesrith" I think it was, and kind of bounced off it. The
"Mri"(?) seemed like Fremen or jihadists in robes and swords, and I just
couldn't get into it. But as I say, it was many years ago, and I may be
mis-remembering. She has been around a long time and written many books,
and seems to be popular still, so maybe I should try something of hers
again.

IIRC, that one ends with the remaining specimen's escape, aided by a
human [1]. The second deals with their return to their home world, in
which the human is trained to be mri and introduces the regul. And the
effect that seeing burned-out world after burned-out world as the mri
retrace their ancestral path has on the humans accompanying the regul.
The third deals with the final confrontation, when regul/humans attack
the home world itself. A home world which has long been in stagnant
decline.

That said, "fremen" isn't that far off as an analogy, for they, too,
have a history (they spent time on Salusa Secundus, from whence the
Sardaukar come). But "ninja warrior" would probably be closer, at
least for the male.

[1] The Wikipedia summary suggests I may be mis-remembering. And I may
be misrembering a lot of it, if the summary is correct. Perhaps a
re-read would not be a bad idea.

As if I needed an excuse to re-read CJ Cherryh!
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"