Alliance-Union Universe: Alliance Space: Merchanter's Luck/40,000 in Gehenna (Paperback)

from Gkarlives

C.J. Cherryh has become my all time favorite author next to Patricia Mckillip. She has a way of taking directions that are always suprising and innovative. The two book contained in this omnibus take place in the same universe but are vastly different in scope. Merchanter' s Luck is a more tradit...

from reading_fox

Alliance Space is a bizzare cobbling together of two disperate stories set quite far apart in the same universe when there are many more obvious pairings that could have been made. It's also badly bound with the type squished very close to the spine, and some copyediting errors - 1882 or 1082 cre...

from semjaza

I enjoyed reading these two short novels, but as another reviewer mentioned, both stories suffered from length issues. "Merchanter's Luck" in particular had a lengthy novel's worth of ideas crammed into a novella-length story with a short story's edging around the plot. By the time I was emotiona...

from Gkarlives

C.J. Cherryh has become my all time favorite author next to Patricia Mckillip. She has a way of taking directions that are always suprising and innovative. The two book contained in this omnibus take place in the same universe but are vastly different in scope. Merchanter' s Luck is a more tradit...

from reading_fox

Alliance Space is a bizzare cobbling together of two disperate stories set quite far apart in the same universe when there are many more obvious pairings that could have been made. It's also badly bound with the type squished very close to the spine, and some copyediting errors - 1882 or 1082 cre...