Downbelow Station

Praise for Downbelow Station Winner of the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel [Downbelow Station] has a marvellous perspective on humanity in the wider universe.... The plot is a complex maneuvering of factions and realignment of interests. There are space battles, and there are economics of space stations.... It's a novel about desperate people, desperate spacestations, desperate aliens, a desperate spacefleet that's out of choices. --Tor.com A solid, vividly realized background; excellent characterization of humans and aliens; and an ability to keep a story moving... Intelligent space adventure, conceived and executed on a grand scale. --Booklist Take one highly vulnerable space station. Pack it with realistic characters. And then start a war. You'll end up with 1982's Hugo winner, Downbelow Station, by C.J. Cherryh -- and a hell of a story. --io9 Cherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization, and war. --Questar Full of imagination, action, and understandable, sympathetic characters.... --Analog The well-drawn variety of backgrounds and motivations of the characters is the work's strength. --VOYA Downbelow Station is a fascinating, complex deep-space-war political novel with a lot of subtle twists. --Fantasiae Praise for Downbelow Station Winner of the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Novel Cherryh has created her strongest character and her best novel in a story of space exploration, colonization and war. --Questar Full of imagination, action, and understandable, sympathetic characters.... --Analog The well-drawn variety of backgrounds and motivations of the characters is the work's strength. --VOYA A solid, vividly realized background; excellent characterization of humans and aliens; and an ability to keep a story moving... Intelligent space adventure, conceived and executed on a grand scale. --Booklist Downbelow Station is a fascinating, complex deep-space-war political novel with a lot of subtle twists. --Fantasiae