Voyager In Night

New York: Daw Books. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. 1st Hardback Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. First issued in a mass market paperback edition, this book club edition by DAW is a First Hardback edition and most likely first printing - with NO code on page 154 (later printings included codes). Illustrated by Richard Powers. The book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The bottom edge of the text block has several tiny spots of discoloration. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light edge wear, rubbing and nicking to the spine ends and corners. "Cherryh's works depict fictional worlds with great realism supported by her strong background in languages, history, archaeology, and psychology. In her introduction to Cherryh's first book, Andre Norton compared the effect of the work to Tolkien's: "Never since reading The Lord of the Rings have I been so caught up in any tale as I have been in Gate of Ivrel." Another reviewer commented, "Her blend of science and folklore gives the novels an intellectual depth comparable to Tolkien or Gene Wolfe". Cherryh creates believable alien cultures, species, and perspectives, causing the reader to reconsider basic assumptions about human nature. Her worlds have been praised as complex and realistic because she presents them through implication rather than explication. She describes the difficulties of translating/expressing concepts between differing languages. This is best demonstrated in both the Chanur and Foreigner series." (from Wikipedia) .