More Cherryh Rereads

I was still craving Cherryh after finishing the Foreigner marathon, so over the next week or two I re-read Downbelow Station, Merchanter's Luck, Rimrunners, Tripoint, and Finity's End, together making up the main strand of the Alliance/Union series. (There's also the prequel duology of Heavy Time and Hellburner, and Cyteen, and a bunch of other loosely connected books that seem to be in the same Universe if not the same century or region.)

( Spoilers and Musings )

Saguaro closeup

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Originally uploaded by ellarien.

We're having a spell of unseasonable warmth, hot enough to frazzle the cholla and prickly pear flowers almost as soon as they open; they're not really built for this. This saguaro flower is a single-day phenomenon anyway, and past its best by noon, but still quite handsome. Those lavish stamens are for pollination by long-nosed bats.