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Originally Posted by nekokami
I think you're right, but it's tough work to extrapolate this. Some authors have tried, though. John Barnes' Orbital Resonance does some of this, as does Ian M. Banks. I think Cherryh chooses to have characters that we can recognize in new situations, rather than trying to explore how people would change in the new situations. Even in her hani novels, the hani have rather humanish personalities, though her other aliens are more believably non-human.
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I've read one Chanur in French, the first. I did like it. It's exactly as you say, I remember her telling in subtle ways throughout that book, that she was transposing characters to an understandable format for humans. I'm looking forward to read the others.
Do you get the feeling sometimes that Cherryh is trying to write for a sci-fi TV show? Her books wouldn't require a lot of special effects. Although sometimes the narrative is too involved for a visual representation...