#Kesrith

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Where did all these regulations come from?

After 40 years of war with the Regul, humans signed the treaty of Kesrith and took on some of the Regul rules, or "Regulations." Because the Regul have perfect memory and cannot lie, their rules are very strict, and come with severe punishments if ignored.

#cj cherryh #the faded sun #faded sun trilogy #regul #kesrith #unreality

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

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#scifi #books #Kesrith #The Faded Sun #C.J. Cherryh #poll #result: no #l: English

[vtgbooks]

Vintage CJ CHERRYH Kesrith The Faded Sun Triology 1979 Vintage Fantasy Hardcover

#bluemelodybooks #vintagebook #bookaesthetic #readingaesthetic #darkacademia #bookcover #vintagebooks #academism

[whispersmith]

As a writer who tends to have trouble waxing poetic about my own worlds at any length, Kesrith is a master class in how to really embed characters in a relatively straightforward situation (one species is peacefully ceding a second species' planet to a third species). Cherryh did this so well in Foreigner too, which probably contributes to the fact that there are about 13 books in that series. That said, the regul POV is bordering on boring and it doesn't help that I picture them as very similar to elcor.

#Kesrith #CJ Cherryh

[rambling-robot]

Trying out a new thing. I made a discord server where I read a few chapters of a story at 8 PM EST, starting tonight. The book we’re starting tonight is a sci-fi novel titled Kesrith, by C. J. Cherryh. You can follow along in your own copy, listen to me read while you do your own thing, or you can have my voice as a quiet background sound. I don’t know how long I’ll do this for (I’ll at least finish the book), but feel free to join any time! 

invite link

#posted June 23 2020 for the curious and uncertain

[elena1701a]

1978-1979: Dreamsnake - Vonda N. McIntyre

Book no.2 in my attempt to read all the female winners of the Hugo and Nebula Best Novel awards. Dreamsnake won the Nebula Award in 1978, and the Hugo Award in 1979. The other nominees for the 1978 Nebula Award were:

- Blind Voices by Tom Reamy

- The Faded Sun: Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh

- Kalki by Gore Vidal (a name I did not expect to see!)

- Strangers by Gardner Dozois

The other nominees for the 1979 Hugo Award were:

- The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey

- The Faded Sun: Kesrith by C.J. Cherryh

- Blind Voices by Tom Reamy

For completeness, I should add that Gateway by Frederick Pohl won the 1978 Hugo Award, and The Fountains of Paradise won the 1979 Nebula Award.

Snake is a travelling healer in a post-apocalyptic world, who has three snakes to help her - two of them are genetically engineered to create medicine from their venom, but the third, Grass, is a dreamsnake who can stop the patient feeling pain, and can also provide a painless death. The book starts with Snake having arrived at a nomadic camp in the desert to heal a young boy who is suffering from a tumour, but due to their fear of snakes, the nomads do not understand their use in healing, and Grass is killed by one of the boy’s parents who thinks the snake will harm the boy.

The dreamsnakes are rare (possibly alien), and Snake knows she is unlikely to get another one, so she sets out to return to her home in the mountains. Along the way she visits other communities, carries out her healing work where needed (including vaccinations), and adopts a young girl who is being abused by her guardian/. She visits Center, the technologically-advanced and closed-off city to ask for help, but is turned away, as all healers are.

However, Snake has been followed by a ‘crazy’ who is actually addicted to dreamsnake venom and leads her to the source of dreamsnakes, and the man who controls them. This is the first time I ever felt Snake was in any danger in the book, as the rest of the story seems like a meandering journey (which I don’t mean as a criticism). None of it was quite as I expected.

The setting in some ways feels like an afterthought, in contrast to some books that would spell out the impact of the nuclear war, the sharp divide between the technologically advanced city, the middle-ages era of the town in the mountains, the nomadic tribes, and the ruined alien city. It’s left in the background for you to notice and assemble in your mind, rather than being spoon-fed the information. The healers community is technologically advanced enough to have cloning and other gene-manipulation techniques, and the contrast between this and the less advanced places that Snake visits on her travels is set out throughout the book in a matter-of-fact way. Snake never suggests that these communities are backwards compared to hers, or could be improved - she accepts them for what they are.

I found it interesting that there was such a contrast between communities in the setting, as this is rare in post-apocalyptic fiction. It was also refreshing not to have post-apocalpyse communities that were not patriarchal, but equal in terms of the status of men and women. The book includes a enveloping romantic relationship between Snake and Arevin, one of the nomads from the start of the book, but it’s very lightly touched upon and definitely isn’t the focus of the book.

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Previous post (Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm) here:

I enjoyed it, but after two post-apocalyptic settings, I’m looking forward to the alien setting of The Snow Queen next.

#hugo awards #nebula awards #Vonda N McIntyre #Dreamsnake

[paperbacksciencefiction]

The Faded Sun: Kesrith by C. J. Cherryh $7 DAW Books (1980) This is the first book in The Faded Sun trilogy. The book is in excellent condition and does not appear to have been read. Cover art by Gino D'Achille. . Overall Excellent Condition . . . #thefadedsunkesrith #cherryh #cjcherryh #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CCj3dWxgrkb/?igshid=185etma76k2kl

#thefadedsunkesrith #cherryh #cjcherryh #paperbacksciencefiction

[fragments-of-a-hologram-dystopia]

Question time: do you know of any sci-fi story/novel set in a desert environment?

I’m thinking of a different planet, like in Dune, instead of a post-apocalyptic world à la Mad Max. It also doesn’t have to be a sand and/or a hot desert.

(I can only think of the planets Dune and Kesrith, and of the setting of Dario Tonani’s Mondo9)

Suggestions?

#sci-fi #science fiction #desert #dune #well there's also Mars in John Carter's adventures

[paperbacksciencefiction]

The Faded Sun: Kesrith by C. J. Cherryh $7 DAW Books (1980) This is the first book in The Faded Sun trilogy. The book is in excellent condition and does not appear to have been read. Cover art by Gino D'Achille. . Overall Excellent Condition . . . #thefadedsunkesrith #cherryh #cjcherryh #paperbacksciencefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/BzQVxc6p3up/?igshid=glg4wbyq1er8

#thefadedsunkesrith #cherryh #cjcherryh #paperbacksciencefiction