On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 13:04:23 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (James
Nicoll) wrote:

Serpent's Reach (Era of Rapprochement, volume 1) by C J Cherryh

The lone survivor of an attempted coup expresses her displeasure with
the power structures that failed her.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/queen-bee

The "Era of Rapproachment" appears, online, to be /Forty Thousand in
Gehenna/, /Cyteen/, and /Regenisis/. That doesn't give it a lot of
meaning. I would think something with /that/ name would be about the
end of the Union/Alliance split.

There are limited-life servants (if not actual azi) in /Port Eternity/
as well. These appear to be earlier novels, before the concept was
finalized, so the inclusion of either in the Era of Rapproachment is
probably more a matter of Marketing than anything else.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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