Alliance Space

Experience the captivating worlds of C.J. Cherryh in this omnibus edition featuring two Alliance-Union novels, Merchanter's Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna. In Merchanter's Luck, a chance encounter between a seasoned starfreighter owner and a junior member of a powerful family leads to an intense race across the cosmos, drawing the attention of formidable forces. Meanwhile, Forty Thousand in Gehenna chronicles the survival of human colonists abandoned on a harsh planet and their unexpected alliance with its native intelligent species over centuries of struggle.