Foreigner

This book started out strong with the exciting plot of a spaceship lost in space and fighting for survival. Some of the occupants consider colonising a planet inhabited by an alien race as their only option for survival. An examination of the psyche and moral conflict of one of the colonisers who acts as a liaison to the aliens follows, which is probably necessary to build the character, but was rather tedious to get through. It is interesting from a post-colonial perspective though. Surprising to read that someone from the South gave so thought to this issue in the mid 90s. The pace picks up at the end of the book however as a conflict between multiple rival human and alien groups arises. There is a bit much focus on an alien horse race, which I found a bit disconcerting since I'm not in the least bit interested in horses, but I can imagine it interesting others. Anyways, I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.

I have an odd relationship with this series, on one hand I adore this series and wish that more people knew about this series and the other there is some flaws that makes me a bit hesitant to recommend this series to anyone I know. this first book in this series that I have finished the series in November 25-26 2023, probably dose not help the latter bit of the problem at all. it has the most wasted of potential of a prelude that should have been more of the first book of the series instead of being shoved into the first bit, as well as being a bit slow. but luckily the concepts of the series and characters are too wonderful for me to ignore (some how made aliens feel alien and made a diplomat look like an interesting job) and made me do something I never did before, try to listen to an audio book that may be technically 12 hours long. the reason in the title for cancelled is that the audio books was cancelled by DAW for some reason despite it being the most loved way of enjoying the series, which was a big why would they do that?.