Chanur's Venture

by C.J. Cherryh

Book Overview

In the sequel to Pride of Chanur, Tully returns, and brings with him a priceless trade contract with human space--a contract that could mean vast power, riches, and a mess of trouble for Pyanfar... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0886772931
• ISBN13: 9780886772932
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Where are the rest?

My two favorite series for many years have been Cherryh books. So my question is where are the rest of the series? You can't put out one of a series and get a good reaction. It's just cruel. I highly suggest the Chanur series and the Faded Sun series by Cherryh. Here's hoping they get the better ones on Kindle soon. Rae Rae

Space Opera at it's finest

The Chanur series is one of CJ's best. The POV is fascinating, and the "human" elements are delightful.

Not a series, really -- just one big, fat terrific novel!

First of all: Have you read _The Pride of Chanur_? If not, stop immediately and go and do it, because this one is the second part of a four-decker and if you attempt them out of order you will have no idea what's going on. Now, then. The story picks up a year or two after Pyanfar Chanur and her crew of cousins have gotten straight with the Han government and with their trading rivals after almost singlehandedly bringing humanity into contact with the more civilized parts of the Compact. However, there are deeply conservative, xenophobic elements among the Hani who would just as soon they had never entered galactic society and that challenge becomes clearer as the plot progresses. The Mahendo-sat, who themselves were the first aliens to contact the Hani a few centuries earlier -- and who also want a piece of the new trade-pie but who aren't as bloody minded about control as the Kif -- are trying to manipulate the situation, even going so far as to use the totally unpredictable, methane-breathing T'ca and Knnn as pawns, and *nobody* understands *them*. If all this sounds complicated, that's because it is. But, if you read from the beginning of the saga through to the end, and if you pay attention, you'll witness one of the most fascinating psycho-political struggles you've ever read. It takes considerable talent to get the reader to understand the internal and external political mindsets and social structures of several very alien races -- and to do it from the point of view of yet another alien race. This is extraordinary stuff -- but start at the beginning. And be aware that the story doesn't end here, not even with a traditional cliffhanger. No, it simply pauses -- and you want to have the third volume ready to hand.

My review of Chanur's Venture

Chanur's Venture by C.J. Cherryh is a great add on to the Pride of Chanur. I can't wait to get started on the next book in this series. Which is the Kif Strike Back.This is a true Sci-Fi book with space travel and creatures of all shapes and sizes. From the Tc'a, which are snake like beasts: "On the violet one, a huge serpent form, which moved and shifted restlessly before the waist-up glass." " Wrinkled, soft-leather skin with phosphor-glow in the gold, eyespots large as a fist, five of them clustered round a complex trifold mouth/sensor. The tongue darted constantly. The body shifted to this side and that, which Tc'a always did." All the way to the Mahendo'sat which is a dark furred primate like race: "And rounding a collection of canisters awaiting dock side pickup, she spied a dark-furred, all but naked shape: mahendo'sat-ordinary encounter anywhere on Meetpoint. But this one flung wide his arms. His eyes lit up, his broad mahen face broke into a charming grin that showed blunt primate fangs all capped in gold." The mahen that was just in the previous quote is known as Goldtooth, which he basically ends up starting the series of mishaps that happens to the Hani crew of The Pride. Hani are basically a lion like race, and The Pride is the name of the ship that this certain Hani crew led by Pyanfar Chanur travel in space with. This book starts you off at Meetpoint Station were Pyanfar is to have a meeting with her old friend Goldtooth. But after this meeting Pyanfar and her crew's situation got bad and then worse and so on. And to think most of their troubles are started all because of some human the Kif are chasing. I am going to stop now because I don't want to give away any more of the books story line.But any way from beginning to end this book kept me in suspense with all the exciting things that kept on happening. But especially the part when Hilfy and Tully were taken. It made me wonder what would happen next. I think that the end of this book was quiet satisfying for a series book. I believe that any Sci-Fi reader would really enjoy reading this book. Thank you for taking the time to read my review.

worth every word

Every title in this series is worth a second and third read. Especially to those who are already Cherryh devotees and have become blissfully familiar with the strangely comforting peculiarities of her various characters' individual pattern of mental processes. An excellent companion can be made from each one of Cherryh's books . Easy to let this author become a favorite.