PORT ETERNITY
New York: Daw Books, 1982. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Grey cloth with pictorial dustjacket. 191p. Inscribed by author. Book and dustjacket in very good condition. Some minor shelf wear to dustjacket. Owners' names on front free endpaper. Otherwise a clean and tight book in very good condition. Inscribed by Cherryh herself on 1/2 title page. Item #141237
Port Eternity is a romantic thriller set aboard the space yacht Maid of Astolat, owned by an extremely wealthy woman. She, her current lover and her cloned Azi servants live out her fantasy, each representing a figure from the world of Arthurian legend. However, disaster strikes when the ship hits a knot in space-time and they are drawn into a parallel dimension. There they gravitate to a huge mass consisting of ships of various species which had been similarly trapped in the past. With no way back, they join the cobbled-together cosmopolitan society. Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Station (1981) and Cyteen (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe. Cherryh (pronounced "Cherry") appended a silent "h" to her real name because her first editor, Donald A. Wollheim, felt that "Cherry" sounded too much like a romance writer. Her initials, C.J., were used to disguise the fact that she was female at a time when almost all science fiction authors were male. Cherryh inscribed this book to the owners.
Price: $15.00