After nearlya decade, Cherryh returned to the story of Morgaine, continuing it in 1988with Exile's Gate. The three books were published in one volumeshortly thereafter under the title The Book of Morgaine. In 1976 two novels by Cherryh appeared in print, Brothersof Earth, a forerunner of her more famous science fiction novels, and Gate of Ivrel, a fantasy novel with some science fiction elements.A sequel, Well of Shiuan, was published in 1978 and it was followed1979 by Fires of Azeroth. Largely forgotten, however, in her voluminous output of fantasy and sciencefiction is a series of four novels, the first of which began her careeras a novelist. To the list of exceptional books from this particularuniverse, I would also add Forty Thousand in Gehenna, in which colonistsdropped off on a planet to establish territorial claims, and then abandoned,gradually succumb to the alien logic of the planet and its original inhabitants. Today she is perhaps best-known for her Cyteen trilogy, published in 1988: The Betrayal, The Rebirth, and The Vindication, in which an assassinatedpolitician on Cyteen Station, Ariane Emory, is cloned and the child raisedto be the same person.

She firstachieved fame with a Hugo Award in 1981 for Downbelow Station, acomplex novel about political struggle on a space station during a war betweenEarth and its rebellious interstellar colonies.

Cherryh is the author of an impressive number of books.

Cyteen series