They are the casualties of a war between the Company (representing Earth’s interests) and the Union (representing colonists based out of the habitable world of Cyteen), and their presence on the station kicks off a number of the main threads of the novel. The story begins with a military ship, the Norway, escorting freighter-loads of refugees into Pell Station. If you don’t like an infodump intro, start at Chapter Two. I like this kind of overview, because I sometimes find it difficult to pick up the bigger picture when I’m reading, but I can see that the Internet is not in agreement. And I frigging love it.Ĭhapter One is an infodump that presents How the Universe Got into its Current State.
Description is minimal, a lot of things are suggested but never made plain, even the way in which she strings a sentence together is, not unusual exactly, but you need to pay attention. You can’t go merrily tripping over her sentences, as she lays out her world before you. By which I mean, it’s powerful, but you have to concentrate. I say that because the first thing I found when I started Downbelow Station is that Cherryh’s writing style is … I’m going to say … dense. I don’t remember much about either The Dreamstone nor Rusalka now, and half suspect that I didn’t understand much of what I was reading at the time. I want to read more of C J Cherryh’s work because of it.īefore this I’d only read two books by Cherryh, when I was a young teen. What a gem of a book! Downbelow Station definitely goes on the keeper shelf. This was such a great place to start my Digging for Gold project.
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