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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
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...
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No, I've never really had that feeling, but as I don't watch TV really, I don't normally think of how something would be transposed to TV.
I thought she got better at presenting the alien perspective as time went by.
Chanur's Legacy, I thought, handled this better than her earlier books. But even
Chanur's Homecoming, when the hani ship inadvertently acquires a kif crewmember, had some good points about the utter lack of comprehension between species.
My favorite book of hers about alien perspective is actually
Wave Without a Shore-- even though some of the characters who can't understand each other are actually human, and some of the humans seem to get along better with the aliens than with the other humans. (Now that I think of it, that's a common theme with her.)