Port Eternity by C J Cherryh

[james_davis_nicoll]

Made-to-order slaves fear their eccentric owner will tire of and dispose of them... until a calamity renders the issue moot.

Port Eternity by C J Cherryh

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

I am pretty sure I read this at some point but I don't remember it very well.

I enjoyed following the link to reread your review of Pride of Chanur; one of my favorite SF books.

[patrick_morris_miller]

No oligarch would want their children to be confused with their commodified, expendable slaves.

Though by the time [1] of Cyteen, clones raised as people rather than azi are nothing exceptional, at least on the Union side of the line [2].

[1] Publication (and presumably writing) time, not in-universe time.

[2] Is it even stated whether Lady Dela Kern is Union or Alliance? Though the distinction may not have become clear by this time [1].

[3] Footnotes are fun!

[(Anonymous)]

Distinctions can harden with time, I suppose.

[(Anonymous)]

Someone said (probably somewhere on rasfw decades ago), that Port Eternity is Cherryh's version of an Andre Norton story.

I read Port Eternity in my early teens, and while I definitely got the impression that azi life sucked, I don't think it hit me quite as hard as when I reread it in middle age. 40 is so much younger now than it used to be.

Teka Lynn