C. J. Cherryh’s Foreigner series is brilliant and so so underrated. Although, Foreigner itself is a bit of a rocky introduction because the pacing is weird. But seriously, I’ve been rereading the series lately and it just moves from strength to strength.



I’m completely unsurprised that it’s on Ann Leckie’s list of top picks anyhow. The strengths in Leckie’s books are pretty similar to what makes Cherryh’s books good. It’s that strongly anthropological Sci-Fi bent with a real sense of alien psychology shaped by language use, among other things.