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Has [http://www.cherryh.com/ her own extensive website].
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* [[Alliance Union]], which contains many series, some only lightly connected:
** The [[Morgaine Cycle]], essentially fantasy novels but with a tenuous tie-in to the Alliance-Union chronology
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* The Fortress series, [[High Fantasy]] centered on the friendship between Tristen, a reborn ancient king and Cefwyn, the current ruler of his lands.
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* [[The Paladin (novel)|The Paladin]] -- [[Low Fantasy]] martial-arts story set in essentially medieval China, in which pig-girl Taizu turns up on exiled swordsmaster Saukendar's doorstep to learn the skills she needs for revenge.
* ''The Goblin Mirror'' -- Fantasy in what's more or less medieval Hungary. [[Our Goblins Are Different|There are '''two''' kinds of beings that humans refer to as goblins]], and one of them seems to be more like [[The Fair Folk]]. They don't much like being lumped together with the other breed. Also, [[All Trolls Are Different|trolls seem to be something like]] [[Genius Loci]], and Krukczy, the one that's seen most -- big and shaggy, with a tail described as ratlike -- is quite benevolent. [[Evil-Detecting Dog|The dog likes him.]]
* A fantasy trilogy set in pre-Christian Russia, starting with ''Rusalka''. [[Slavic Mythology|The rusalka is the spirit of a girl who drowned.]] She'll be more dangerous if her death was suicide than if it was an accident, and most malevolent of all if she was a murder victim. The title character was murdered by a young man she loved. Uh-oh. See also Be Careful What You Wish For below.
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* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]] - It's pretty clear that Tristen fell under [[Good Is Not Nice]] at ''best'' in his previous life.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]] - In the ''Rusalka'' fantasy trilogy, a wizard's wishes will come true -- all of them. Somehow. Not always in a way that's good for the wizard. Wishing a stone to fly won't make it levitate -- it'll cause ''something'' to come along and fling that stone through the air. "Wish a stone to fly -- and then beware the whirlwind."
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