Referring to this honor, the asteroid's discoverers wrote of Cherryh: "She has challenged us to be worthy of the stars by imagining how mankind might grow to live among them." Biography The author has an asteroid, 77185 Cherryh, named after her. J., to disguise that she was female at a time when the majority of science fiction authors were male. Wollheim, felt that "Cherry" sounded too much like a romance writer. She is known for worldbuilding, depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology.Ĭherryh (pronounced "Cherry") appended a silent "h" to her real name because her first editor, Donald A. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award–winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C.
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