โ Scribed by C. J. Cherryh
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"An excellent, action-filled book, replete with the finely tuned social and scientific detail one has grown to expect from Cherryh." -Kliatt "Cherryh's customary strengths are all here--brisk pacing, above-average characterization of both human sexes and also of nonhumans, and genuinely brilliant world-building." -Booklist "For interesting aliens, try Cherryh's SERPENT'S REACH. In it she has created what may be the first sympathetic hive mind in SF. Cherryh has successfully avoided almost all the mystic pseudoscience claptrap inspired in her predecessors by Earth's social insects. She has achieved a Hive intelligence that makes sense. I congratulate her and I look forward to her attempt to top it. -Analog
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**This omnibus volume combines two Alliance-Union novels: Hugo Award nominee _Cuckoo's Egg_ and Locus Best Novel Award nominee _Serpent's Reach_.** **In _Cuckoo's Egg_ :** They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead
**This omnibus volume combines two Alliance-Union novels: Hugo Award nominee _Cuckoo's Egg_ and Locus Best Novel Award nominee _Serpent's Reach_.** **In _Cuckoo's Egg_ :** They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead
In the far future, in a part of space long isolated by the collapse of connecting wormholes, missionaries and pirates join in an uneasy alliance to search for the Three Kings, three planets supposedly full of treasure and artifacts.