Precursor – For three breakneck years the atevi labor to build a space shuttle that will bear their representatives to the Phoenix, to strengthen connections with their new human allies and retain their bid for control of their world. But the return of the Phoenix has added a frighteningly powerful third party to an already volatile situation, polarizing both human and atevi political factions, and making the possibility of all-out planetary war an even more likely threat. During these six months, the atevi have reconfigured their fledgling space program in a bid to take their place in the heavens alongside humans.

Inheritor – Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix. Cut off from his government and haunted by the continuing threat of assassination, Bren realizes his only hompe may be to communicate directly with the Phoenix as the spokesman of the atevi-an actuan which may cut him off for good from his own species. Invader – With the situation fast becoming critical, Bren Cameron, the brilliant, young paidhi to the court of the atevi is recalled from Mospheira where he has just undergone surgery. Then the sole human the treaty allows into atevi society is marked for an assassin’s bullet. Now, nearly two hundred years after that conflict, humanity has traded its advanced technology for peace and an island refuge that no atevi will ever visit. War became inevitable once humans and one faction of atevi established a working relationship.

Cherryh, you’ll find below the official synopsis for all the books:įoreigner – It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. What is the plot of the Foreigner stories?įor more information about the books in the Foreigner series by C.J. How to Read the Foreigner Series in Order? He is the human paidhi, a translator-diplomat to the court of the ruling atevi race. This series is composed of multiple trilogies of books beginning nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared, leaving an isolated colony of humans on the world of the atevi. Cherryh, The Foreigner universe centers on the descendants of a ship lost in transit from Earth en route to found a new space station. Sci-Fi series created by American writer C. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.įor the aficionados of anthropological science fiction.

Foreigner by C.J. Cherryh