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Merchanter's Luck (Dramatized Adaptation): Alliance-Union Universe: The Company Wars, Book 2 Audible Audiobook – Original recording

C.J. Cherryh (Author), Christopher Walker (Narrator), Holly Adams (Narrator),

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The classic sci-fi series, brought to life with a full cast, sound effects, and cinematic music!

The fateful meeting between the owner of a tramp star-freighter that flies the Union planets under false papers and fake names and a proud but junior member of a powerful starship-owning family leads to a record-breaking race to Downbelow Station - and a terrifying showdown at a deadly destination off the cosmic charts.

Performed by Karen Novack, Shravan Amin, Elena Anderson, Ryan Reid, Keval Shah, Lucy Symons, Holly Adams, Christopher Williams, Nazia Chaudhry, Robb Moreira, Christopher Walker, David Cui Cui, Julie Hoverson, Peter Holdway, Eric Messner, Colleen Delany, Niusha Nawab, Nora Achrati, Alejandro Ruiz, Bradley Foster Smith, and Yasmin Tuazon.

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6 hours and 8 minutes
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January 1, 2022
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Listening Length	6 hours and 8 minutes
Author	C.J. Cherryh
Narrator	Christopher Walker, Holly Adams, Karen Novack, Nazia Chaudhry, Christopher Williams, Robb Moreira, Elena Anderson, Amin Shravan, Ryan Reid, Keval Shah, Lucy Symons
Audible.com Release Date	January 01, 2022
Publisher	Graphic Audio LLC
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Original recording
Language	English
ASIN	B09NQRFFVT
Best Sellers Rank	#137,500 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #2,390 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #8,646 in Space Operas

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A Masterpiece

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2012

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I have read Science Fiction since I was a 'Tween (stopped for a while to study Psychology and Computer Science) and just now (at 50) discovered CJ Cherryh. I had been reading through a list of about 10 books from an internet list on good spaceship themed books, and Merchanter's Luck was on the list. It stopped me in my tracks with it's style. After reading it, I paused my spaceship-centric reading and went back to read all three books leading up to Merchanter's Luck (see Wikipedia page on her work), including Downbelow Station which won several awards. I still like this one best so far. I am now re-reading Merchanters Luck, and I don't know of another time that I have re-read a Science-Fiction book. And I am getting even more out of it on the second reading! There are many different styles of Science Fiction, and this is one that really resonates with me. Early favorites for me included Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, A.E. Van Vogt, and many, many short story authors. Very worth checking out!

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Mike Archcraft

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2016

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One of Cherryh's best works. I read it in high school and still love it after 30 years.

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Sarah Stegall

A grimmer Han Solo

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2012

Think of Han Solo and the Millenium Falcon. Think of Malcolm Reynolds and Firefly. Now make them lonely and reckless and hopeless. Sandor Kreja is pretty much these guys, without the supportive crew/sidekick. All he's got left after the raid that killed his family is his ship, a battered version of the Falcon or Firefly. In the opening chapter, Sandor walks into a bar and falls in love at first sight with the raven-haired Allison Reilly, a Merchanter daughter on leave. A quick roll in the hay only throws fuel on his fire, and he vows to see her at her next port, which is (for his little ship) impossibly far away. For reasons he can't or won't examine, he actually follows through with this, and arrives after staying awake on drugs and nerve through three jumps, to find that he has made himself the center of a lot of unwelcome attention.

The rest of the novel is about the lingering echoes of Sandor's family catastrophe, about how something resembling post-traumatic stress disorder can screw with a man's head the rest of his life, and about how hard it is to look past all of these things to find love and trust. It's a book about desperate love. In a few of Cherryh's trademark clipped, condensed paragraphs in the first pages, she paints a picture of a young man on the edge of life, scarred by a horrific tragedy in his youth, eking out a living in the shadow of the big players of Downbelow Station . That novel made a big splash in the early 80s, and I read it, but this story is the one that stuck in my mind for thirty years. I come back to it over and over because of the tone Cherryh puts into it, because of the way she expertly balances the yearning in Sandor against his fear of betrayal, his pride, his survivor's guilt, the secrets and ghosts (metaphorical) that are all he has left. Sandor is a victim who doesn't realize he's a victim, so he behaves like a hero and then is surprised when people say nice things about him.

Cherryh's typically compact and evocative prose supports a story which is perhaps too long on Merchanter/Alliance/Union politics and too short on the romance that fuels the story. Even though I was familiar with the referents, I didn't care. They were only window dressing for the real story, the love story. Cherryh set up a good one and didn't quite pull it off; the romance is lower-key than it needs to be to hold up a whole novel. While the ending felt rushed, it still managed to leave me with a feeling that matters had been resolved -- patched together, leaking, limping -- but resolved. It's a very human, realistic ending, not the neat, happily-ever-after ending of the conventional romance.

The taut, allusory prose, the simple and straightforward story structure, and the outstanding delineation of a very sympathetic main character make this a standout book, one of Cherryh's best. In the grand tradition of space opera, it swept me off my feet and kept me enthralled over three decades.

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Jim

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2017

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still one of the best of her novels.

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Layers Upon Layers

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2014

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It's not just the plot, but characters that are composed of layers. Where will the indie named Lucy find cargo? How will Sandor finance it- or will he end behind bars? He needs crewmen, too. At first, the shabby spacer prospects in bars, when he meets someone out of his league. In fact, she might be syndicate. Authorities become suspicious. He flees, but is caught like a fly in a web.
A backroom deal is quietly arranged; Sandor has no real choice. My only dissatisfaction with the book is that he terrifies his exec and crew with his paranoia. This psychological study forms the middle of the story. Any other author would have high-lighted the romantic elements, or the actions of adversaries.
Unlike Owner's Share (Trader's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper Book 6) , this author did not foresee stationnet listings of cargo availability, use of pocket computers to monitor ship's computer or using solar winds like sailing ships of old. Yet the Lucy and her crew get by.
Toward the end of the trip, another layer of the plot exposes -again Sandor has no choice. These characters deserve a sequel.

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Michael Adams

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2014

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Good quality older paper back. Quick shipper

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Belinda

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2015

No complaints.

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2022

Cherryh writes using multiple layers, a sound understanding of human psychology, well developed story lines, and an excellent use of the English (American version) language. Always, there is complexity. She can pull a reader into her stories with the first sentence, her characters and their environment become real and the reader experiences the characters' emotions and experiences. I first read this story in 1981 and have revisited it a number of times. It addresses survival, whether as someone alone or as a cog in a large, well run organization, in a changing environment, in situations over which the person have no control, and it addresses personal growth. It is not Cherryh's finest book, but it is an excellent book and one worth reading. I do wish there was an electronic version, properly proofed, that I could download.

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kif

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 26, 2015

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A very short book but keeps you to the end.

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the beadman

very good

Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2012

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Merchanter's Luck is one of the few books that i read over and over again a good plot and story i belive how a small ship goes up against a big ship with a well know name and a bit of a dream love story . to go all out for a once in a life time dream and go for broke i hope other enjoy it as much as i did and wish there was a 2nd one carry on. i purchased this item at Amazon. good service.

hsh

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 24, 2016

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Excellent condition

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2018

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