Alliance-Union Universe

C.J. Cherryh

15 books

C.J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union Universe is one of science fiction's most elaborately constructed futures — a shared setting spanning centuries of human expansion into space, political fractures between Earth Company, the Union, and the merchant Alliance, and first contact with alien civilizations. Each novel is largely self-contained, allowing readers to enter at almost any point, though the cumulative depth rewards exploration. Downbelow Station and Cyteen are the twin masterpieces at its core, each a Hugo Award winner.