But the technology of Compact Space, with its huge space stations, FTL drives but no artificial gravity, the clunky tech of 1970s visions of the future… It’s all a bit retro. The pidgin spoken by the mahendo’sat is perhaps less pleasing, and it’s unlikely any writer would do such a thing in a twenty-first century novel. There is also a pleasingly slightly old-fashioned feel to the universe of the series. Pyanfar makes an excellent protagonist, although perhaps she’s praised a tad too much by other characters (leading the reader to suspect the rest of the hani are not much good at anything). Cherryh reveals more about the kif, and they’re a lot more interesting than they had appeared in the earlier books.
They are centuries ahead of everyone else technologically, and don’t appear to deal very well with other races.īut if The Kif Strike Back isn’t quite as engaging a read as Chanur’s Venture, there is still much to like in it.
To make matters worse, Tully confesses that the human ships may have actually fired on knnn ships. There is also a great deal of explaining, by Pyanfar, of what is going on behind the scenes and the motivations of the various factions – all, that is, except for the methane-breathers, as no one ever really knows what they’re thinking. And like many middle books of trilogies, The Kif Strike Back seems to consist chiefly of getting the various players into place for the final showdown, which, I’m guessing, will take place at Meetpoint, where the quintet opened. The fifth book, Chanur’s Legacy, takes place many years later. The first book of the quintet, The Pride of Chanur, felt like a one-off, and the second book, Chanur’s Venture, took the ending of the first book and ran with it. The Kif Strike Back reads like the middle book of a trilogy, which in effect it is. (Kif politics operates on individuals’ clout, or sifk, and leaders can rise and fall in moments.) Somehow the enigmatic knnn are involved in all this, and the bird-like shsto have been making secret treaties with some of the hani in order to cut the mahendo’sat out of any future trade deals, and the House of Chanur back home is near-bankrupt and wanted for a number of violations of laws and treaties – which is why Vigilance is dogging The Pride of Chanur… So The Pride of Chanur, Sikkukkut’s small fleet, the mahendo’sat hunter Jik, and even the hani ship Vigilance form an impromptu task force and descend on the kif station Kekf and seize control of it, cutting off Sikkukkut’s rival and causing him to badly lose face.
These events were precipitated by the return of humans to Compact Space, which in turn led to a bid for power between two kif leaders… And it’s one of these whom Pyanfar finds herself reluctantly allied to – the very same one, in fact, called Sikkukkut, who kidnapped Hilfy and Tully. He walked off the field under his own power and did not return.At the end of Chanur’s Venture, Pyanfar Chanur and her ship, The Pride of Chanur, had found themselves heading for Mkks, a station in the disputed zone between the kif and mahendo’sat, chasing after a kif leader who had kidnapped Pyanfar’s niece Hilfy and the human Tully. “He’s physical.”īut Donaldson was injured on a short gain early in the fourth quarter. Donaldson punched it into the end zone from 1-yard out for a 14-6 lead.
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The sophomore ran for 48 yards on West Virginia’s first series of the third quarter, which was aided by a defensive holding call that kept the drive moving. With Greene hurt, Donaldson took matters into his own hands. That set up Marchiol’s short scoring toss to tight end Kole Taylor. Marchiol fumbled the ball away in the second quarter, but Aubrey Burks intercepted Jurkovec two plays later, returning it 26 yards to the Panthers’ 7. Greene limped off the field on West Virginia’s second series and did not return.
It’s hard to win a football game when you kick two field goals and don’t score touchdowns.” “The difference in the game is turnovers,” Pittsburgh coach Pat Narduzzi said.
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