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Hestia

C.J. Cherryh

Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 3.5 | 408 Users | 18 Reviews

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Original Title:	Hestia
ISBN:	0783891539 (ISBN13: 9780783891538)
Edition Language:	English

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After a hundred pioneer years, the colony on Hestia seemed to be nearing its end. Its holdings on that green and fertile planet were still limited to a single river in one valley. Everywhere else hostile fauna hedged them in. A dam could break the deadlock, and they needed an engineer to build it for them. Sam Merrit was the man who came in answer to their S.O.S. -- and he wanted out as soon as he landed. But once down on Hestia, it was live or die within the colony. So Sam stayed -- to discover certain anomalies that the hardscrabble colonists had thrust from their minds.

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Title	:	Hestia
Author	:	C.J. Cherryh
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Large Print
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2000 by Thorndike Press (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Ratings: 3.5 From 408 Users | 18 Reviews

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An earlier work of Cherryh involves a desperate colony hoping for help from Earth to build a dam.Not everything is as it seems & the colonists have given short shrift to the indigenous people already there.A bittersweet,realistic book which doesn't end "happily ever after".Cherryh was well on her way to the accomplished world building author she became

Hestia is a really a prime example of C.J. Cherryh's early works: it is a detailed, methodical and slower paced combination of fantasy and science fiction which requires a certain amount of patience. The settings often involve a group of human colonists assigned or stranded on a terraformed or Earth-like world struggling to survive in a difficult environment where natives of the planet object to their presence. There's usually a main protagonist who comes to be the medium, either by choice or

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This book is very well written, well detailed and a short solid read. The threat of the other people and natural disaster kept a tenseness throughout which helped justify the actions of the characters. I am not convinced however that the ending would work given the situation and relationship between the Human Hestians and the natives before even the dam building had started; could have been better thought out perhaps.

A small novel, Cherryh explores what it means to be human again in this early novel. While it has jarring moments of plot shift, she slowly builds the story to a steady boil until it has a page turning ending.

The plot is there not only to move the story forward, but also to focus on character. Cherryh has her main character dealing with love and purpose in life; the human society has to find a way to live the native species on the planet. The end is a bit too pat, but the characters make this a fine read. Recommended.

The concept is explained very quickly with engineers from earth arriving to help a colonised planet, but they don't like the job and all but one manage to get off planet. That one, Sam Merritt, is stuck between an episode of Rednecks in space and Avatar and unsurprisingly is always at odds with someone. Easy to read.