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Hunter of Worlds

C. J. Cherryh

First published March 1977
Type Novel
Series Alliance-Union › Hanan Rebellion #2

The iduve were the most advanced spacefaring race in the galaxy. They traveled where they pleased in giant city-sized vessels, taking what they pleased, engrossed with their own affairs. The iduve were humanoids - with a difference: they were predators incapable of human emotions. Aiela was a world-survey officer who found himself abducted to live and serve the iduve clanship Ashanome. Forcibly mind-linked with two other humans, life became for him a wholly different thing - a life lived on three levels and intended to dedication to the service of his captors. But events involving a human world that had become prey to the Ashanome were to bring out contradictions and confrontations that make the story of this man and his captor-master, the Hunter of Worlds, a truly powerful science fiction novel. (from the back cover of the DAW first printing)

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1978 Locus Poll Award Best SF Novel Nominee/Finalist

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 1977 Cover Hunter of Worlds Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Novel
August 1977 Cover Hunter of Worlds DAW Books Novel 5
August 1977 Cover Hunter of Worlds DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Novel 5
November 1978 Cover I signori delle stelle Editrice Nord Novel 1
August 1980 Cover Hunter of Worlds Orbit / Futura Novel 5
August 1980 Cover Hunter of Worlds DAW Books Novel 5
August 1980 Cover Hunter of Worlds DAW Books Novel
December 1980 Cover Weltenjäger Heyne Novel 7
1982 Cover Weltenjäger Heyne Novel 7
January 1982 Cover Chasseurs de mondes J'ai Lu Novel 5
October 1983 Cover Hunter of Worlds DAW Books Novel 5
May 1987 Cover Hunter of Worlds DAW Books Novel 5
1988 Cover Hunter of Worlds Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Novel
March 1990 Cover Hunter of Worlds Mandarin Novel
September 2003 Cover At the Edge of Space DAW Books Omnibus 283