Two of Cherryh's stand-alone SF novels--including the Hugo Award finalist "Cuckoo's Egg"--are now available in this omnibus volume. Original. Cuckoo's Egg They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes strange sleek-skinned instead of furred clawless different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors the elite the fighters the defenders. Thorn knew that his difference was somehow very important -- but not important enough to prevent murderous conspiracies against him against his protector against his caste and perhaps against the peace of the world. But when the crunch came when Thorn finally learned what his true role in life was to be that on him might hang the future of two worlds then he had to stand alone to justify his very existence. Serpent's Reach Within the Constellation of the Serpent out of bounds to all spacefarers humans live among the insect-like aliens--and one of them a woman named Raen is bent on a revenge that will tear apart the truce between human and alien. "Brisk pacing . . . and genuinely brilliant world-building."--ALA Booklist. Reissue.
