Alliance-Union

The Alliance-Union series is a series of space opera or science fiction genre written by award-winning American novelist C.J. Cherryh. Cherryh Carolyn Janice has been publishing fantasy and science fiction since 1975 though he started writing way before that. She is proficient in a variety of disciplines and languages that include Mediterranean archaeology, Greek, and Latin having taught these subjects in high school in the Oklahoma City Public School system. She also loves plumbing, pond building, physics, planetary geology, photography, and travel all of which inform his love for space opera and time travel prominent in his novels. He has also studied much of world history and believes himself an optimist even in the face of constant threat of war or climate change. His study of humankind and history makes him believe that humanity has developed a lot and could face any kind of catastrophe that may be thrown into its path given its innovative ways and technology available. He thus writes novels about clever people who rebel against situations they do not like and find solutions to make their world a better place. C.J. Cherryh’s best known works are set in the Alliance-Union Universe, the Foreigner Universe, and several science fiction and fantasy works. Her Alliance-Union series is known for its great realism which is made possible by Cherryh research in archaeology, psychology, language, and history. For her contributions to the space opera genre she had “77185 Cherryh”, an asteroid named after her.