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C. J. Cherryh’s *Destroyer* is the seventh entry in her acclaimed Foreigner series and the first book of a new trilogy. It follows the crew of a crashed spacecraft as they navigate the deadly, intelligent society of a planet they have never encountered before, turning a species encounter into a sprawling space opera saga.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: C. J. Cherryh
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