The mri race, indestructible until having finally met their match in a war against a new and powerful enemy, are in danger of extinction, leaving three individuals--a warrior, priestess, and human being--to recapture their domination.

C.J. Cherryh's classic adventure of interstellar politics, a spacefaring fugitive, and first contact with a strange race known as "humans."

She is the tormented ghost of a murdered girl, pitiless spirit of the wilderness, who prevails only upon living souls. And her name is the most dreaded in Russian folklore. Rusalka. Impetuous Pyetr Kochevikov, a fugitive from Voyvoda with a price on his head, has none of the superstitions of his fearful young companion, Sasha, as they flee through the vastness of the forest. But when they arrive exhausted at the cottage of the wizzard Uulamets, Pyetr...

A tale of medieval-style intrigue and warfare in a fantasy land. The land's king wants to marry a woman who is regent in a neighboring kingdom, but his politicians oppose him. He will succeed.

To help negotiate treacherous diplomatic waters, Tabini-aiji, the powerful head of the atevi's Western Association, has sent the only human he fully trusts into space: his own paidhi, Bren Cameron.

Cherryh's second trilogy set in her Foreigner Universe comes to a thrilling conclusion with "Explorer" where a human delegate trapped in a distant star system faces a dangerous alien ship.

Although the civil war among the alien Atevi has ended, and the ruler of the Western Association has returned to his seat of power at the Bujavid, factions loyal to the opposition remain active and still pose a danger.

Marak is sent on a quest across his desert planet to find the source of the madness the torments so many of his people, including himself.

It was a shadow age and a shadow place. Deep in a forest, in a ruined castle, an ancient wizard creates a Shaping, in the form of a young man. The wizard sends the yong man on a journey to right the wrongs of a long-forgotten wizard war, and to call new wars into being.

Ben Cameron, a human diplomat, must negotiate with a young atevi alien lord unfamiliar with humans in the hopes of convincing him to stop hostilities towards the west.