Description:A legend among sci-fi readers, C. J. Cherryh's Union-Alliance novels,
while separate and complete in themselves, are part of a much larger
tapestry—a future history spanning 5,000 years of human
civilization.Here is the 20th anniversary edition of Downbelow Station,
the book that won Cherryh a Hugo Award for Best novel in 1982. A
blockbuster space opera of the rebellion between Earth and its far-flung
colonies, it is a classic science fiction masterwork.