C. J. Cherryh
C. J. Cherryh
Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Stationand Cyteen, both set in her Alliance-Union universe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 September 1942
CountryUnited States of America
average people half
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.
smart stupid people
I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
hero warrior soldier
A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
party trying matter
Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
art fiction world
For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
culture biology conditions
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
reality talking slipping
Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
men enemy watches
Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.
devil complaining heat
Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
night ideas tennis
Science fiction is a dialogue, a tennis match, in which the Idea is volleyed from one side of the net to the other. Ridiculous to say that someone 'stole' an idea: no, no, a thousand times no. The point is the volley, and how it's carried, and what statement is made by the answering 'statement.' In other words — if Burroughs initiates a time-gate and says it works randomly, and then Norton has time gates confounded with the Perilous Seat, the Siege Perilous of the Round Table, and locates it in a bar on a rainy night — do you see both the humor and the volley in the tennis match?
matter location ceilings
Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
kitchen wells poisoning
Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.
home fighting warrior
The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
moving information goods
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.