C. J. Cherryh
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Series
Description
The wizard Mauryl, kingmaker for a thousand years of Men, casts a Shaping spell in the form of a young man, Tristen, who is fated to sow distrust between a prince and his father. Mauryl wishes to right the wrongs of a long forgotten wizard war, and to call new wars into being.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
The adventures of a swordsman who has been created out of nothing by a magician. As he has been in existence for only a year, Tristen is green in the ways of the world and through his eyes are seen facets of our culture. By the author of Fortress in the Eye of Time.
Author
Series
Fortress series volume 4
Description
It started long ago, in a tower at the Eye of Time, as a war between the shadowy Immortals who came before our kind. That war persists today, as the wizard Mauryl's Shaping confronts the Shadows that Hasufin summoned from Chaos against the Siddhe lords.
Tristen is that Shaping, a halfling creature of Fire and Shadow. Both more and less than human, he turned back sorcery's tides in the legend-heavy battle of Lewenbrook. Tristen's victory brought his...
6) Hammerfall
Author
Series
Gene Wars volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Marak, a prince and warrior, is ordered by the dictator to find the elusive silver tower, and when he accomplishes this task, the beings within the tower give him a new mission--lead his people to safety before the hammer of the dictator's dreaded enemies falls.
Author
Series
Gene Wars volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A deadly cataclysm threatens the survival of a tiny planet that holds the key to peace between Earth and the alien world Ondat, a situation that is complicated by the arrival of an unexpected ship that could restart the Gene Wars.
Author
Series
Fortress series volume 5
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Two surprising allies have emerged to aid the embattled ruler in a struggle he must win: Cefmyn's two young sons. Aewyn Marhanen is the prince destined to rule. Aewyn's half-brother. Elfwyn Aswydd-- the bastard son of the king and the sorceress Tarien Aswydd--has spent years unaware of his parentage, yet now it is time to emerge and claim the gifted birthright he's been denied for so long. But a dark, sinister magic has crept close to the young man...
9) Conspirator
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Series
Description
Cajeiri is the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Associationand he has become a target for forces bent on destroying his fathers rule. For Cajeiri is the first ateva youth to have lived in a human environment. And after hundreds of years of fragile atevi-human coexistence, he may very well be the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similaryet so dangerously differentaliens who share his...
10) Paladin
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Description
Now betrayed by the Emperor he once protected, master swordsman Saukendar leaves the way of the sword behind him forever-so he thinks. When a headstrong peasant girl burning to avenge her murdered family demands that he train her, Saukendar is faced with a momentous choice. Send Taizu away, never see her again-or join her and destroy the tyrant who has nearly destroyed them both.
12) Invader
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
Since the starship Phoenix left the small group of colonists on the planet of the atevi 178 years ago, humans and atevi have developed an understanding, which is threatened when the Phoenix suddenly returns.
13) Deliverer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In the aftermath of civil war, the world of the atevi is still perilously unstable. Tabini-aiji, powerful ruler of the Western Association, along with his son and heir, and his human paidhi, Bren Cameron, have returned to the Bu-javid, their seat of power. The usurper, Murini has escaped to the lands of his supporters, but the danger these rebels pose is far from over. The world of the atevi has fragmented into two antagonistic political camps: the...
14) Destroyer
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Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"It has been two years since the starship Phoenix left Alpha Station on a rescue mission to a faraway sector of space where over four thousand human spacers were under attack by a hostile alien race. Now, the Phoenix is almost home, having successfully rescued the stranded colonists through the combined negotiating talents of Bren Cameron-brilliant human paidhi to the atevi court, currently representing Tabini-aiji, the atevi ruler-and of Tabini's...
15) Deceiver
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Series
Pub. Date
c2011.
Description
The civil war among the alien atevi is over-- but peace and tranquility are not in the cards for Bren. Cajeiri, the young son of Tabini-aiai, the ruler, slips away from his bodyguards for an adventure. When rebel clans attack, Bren's pastoral retreat becomes a locked-down fortress.
16) Betrayer
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Pub. Date
[2012], c2011.
Description
After the civil war among the alien atevi has ended, Tabini-aiji, ruler of the Western Association, and his son, Cajeiri, return to Bujavid and face threats from rebels who remain loyal to the opposition.
17) Protector
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The 14th novel in a long-running odyssey, following INTRUDER. It's Cajeiri's 8th birthday and he's been promised a visit from the human children he knew from his interstellar voyage. But a major split is compromising the Assassins' Guild, which furnishes security and law enforcement to the whole continent. It's Bren's responsibility to let a lonely little prince re-establish his controversial relationship with the only other children he's ever met...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In the wake of civil war, Bren Cameron, the brilliant human diplomat of the alien atevi civilization, has left the capital and sought refuge at his country estate, Najida. But now he is trapped inside Najida--which has been surrounded by enemies--with the powerful grandmother of his ally, Tabiniaiji, atevi leader of the Western Association.