Downbelow Station

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Downbelow Station

Author:	C. J. Cherryh
Publisher:	DAW Books, 1981
Series:	Alliance-Union: Company Wars: Book 3
1. Heavy Time 2. Hellburner 3. Downbelow Station 4. Merchanter's Luck 5. Rimrunners 6. Tripoint 7. Finity's End
Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags:	Military SF Space Exploration Hard SF
Awards:	1982 Hugo Winner 1982 Locus SF Nominated
Lists:	Locus Best SF Novels of All-Time The Classics of Science Fiction Award Winning Books by Women Authors Baen Reader's List of Recommended Military SF Easton Press Masterpieces of Science Fiction WWEnd Top Listed Books The Defining Science Fiction Books of the 1980s Science Fiction by Women Writers
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Synopsis

The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The Earth Company which ran this immense operation reaped incalculable profits and influenced the affairs of nations.

Then came Pell, the first station centered around a newly discovered living planet. The discovery of Pell's World forever altered the power balance of the Beyond. Earth was no longer the anchor which kept this vast empire from coming adrift, the one living mote in a sterile universe.

But Pell was just the first living planet. Then came Cyteen, and later others, and a new and frighteningly different society grew in the farther reaches of space. The importance of Earth faded and the Company reaped ever smaller profits as the economic focus of space turned outward. But the powerful Earth Fleet was sitll a presence in the Beyond, and Pell Station was to become the last stronghold in a titanic struggle between the vast, dynamic forces of the rebel Union and those who defended Earth's last, desperate grasp for the stars.