I've never found a translation of Cherryh into English that I liked and I've never found copies in the original Knnn. I do own a shelf of her books, though. I think I bailed on her somewhere in Foreigner because the protagonist was an imbecile.

I like Bujold, find Kress' SF like fingernails down a chalk board and I wish someone would take Moon aside and assure her that it would be OK if her next book did not have a baby-eating, kitten-stomping villain in it.