From what I can tell, Foreigner keeps the lights on and puts food on the table at the Cherryh/Fancher household, my friend. Looks like it's a guaranteed sale, every volume. Theoretically it provides her with time and money to write whatever else she likes ... assuming she has the energy. She's going on 78.
I do find it very easy to slip into the formal speech that represents Ragi, the language of the Atevi. I nearly addressed you as "nadi" at the end of the first sentence, but then I got bogged down in "What's the real difference between 'nadi' and 'nandi'?"
I think the series speaks very strongly to the imposter syndrome and feelings of being an outsider that so many fen have. Bren is always going to be the foreigner, no matter how much he becomes integrated into atevi society. He's so much almost one of the cool kids, and yet his value is the bridge he forms between them and the mundanes, who live their dreary lives up in the space station or their less dreary but still constrained, very ordinary lives on the human island nation Mospheira.
Note that CJC is still sharp as a tack. Following her on Book of Faces allows fans to see what interests her and what she finds intriguing or problematic about those topics.
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Date: 2020-02-06 12:34 pm (UTC)I do find it very easy to slip into the formal speech that represents Ragi, the language of the Atevi. I nearly addressed you as "nadi" at the end of the first sentence, but then I got bogged down in "What's the real difference between 'nadi' and 'nandi'?"
I think the series speaks very strongly to the imposter syndrome and feelings of being an outsider that so many fen have. Bren is always going to be the foreigner, no matter how much he becomes integrated into atevi society. He's so much almost one of the cool kids, and yet his value is the bridge he forms between them and the mundanes, who live their dreary lives up in the space station or their less dreary but still constrained, very ordinary lives on the human island nation Mospheira.
Note that CJC is still sharp as a tack. Following her on Book of Faces allows fans to see what interests her and what she finds intriguing or problematic about those topics.