CHANUR SAGA: C.J. Cherryh Daw Books Mike Whelan Covers

CHANUR SAGA
 
The Pride Of Chanur
Chanur's Venture
The Kif Strike Back
Chanur's Homecoming
 
C.J. CHERRYH
 
DAW Books
 
Mike Whelan Covers
 
ALL FIRST DAW EDITIONS
 
The Chanur novels are a series of science fiction novels, forming three separate stories, written by American author C. J. Cherryh and published by DAW Books between 1981 and 1992. The first novel in the series is The Pride of Chanur, which was nominated for both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1983.
 
The series is set in the same Alliance-Union universe of Downbelow Station, but in a region of space in the opposite direction from Earth as the Alliance and Union. It is occupied by a number of spacefaring civilizations bound by a set of trade treaties into a so-called Compact. The Compact is not a political organization, and has no government; it deals only with open trade, leaving the component civilizations to resolve conflicts between themselves.

Human space borders kif and knnn territory, the most aggressive and enigmatic species of the Compact respectively. First contact ensues when an ambitious kif hakkikt (prince) captures a human exploration ship. The last surviving crew member, Tully, escapes while the kif ship is docked at a station and winds up on The Pride of Chanur, a hani merchant vessel commanded by Pyanfar Chanur. This triggers the events of the first novel in the series and its three-part sequel.