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by Caroline J. Cherryh
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Editorial Reviews
From Kirkus Reviews
An addition to Cherryh's medium-future spacefaring saga (Hellburner, 1992) in which,
the Company Wars over, freelance trading vessels crewed by extended families
ferociously compete for interstellar shipping contracts. Aboard the Hawkins family's
Sprite, cargo chief Marie Hawkins nurses a personal grudge against Austin Bowe, captain
of the rival Corinthian, who beat and raped her 25 years ago. Obsessed and vengeful,
Marie intends to destroy Austin by proving that his ship trades illegally with pirates and
smugglers. When both ships dock at the Mariner space station, she pounces. Concerned
for her welfare, her son, Tom--Austin's boy- -interferes with Marie's plans and for his
pains is shanghaied and confined aboard Corinthian by his half-brother, Christian. While
the desperate Marie persuades Sprite's captain to pursue the Corinthian, and a ship full of
genuine bad guys draws ever nearer, Tom adapts to his new life aboard his father's
vessel--a life that is neither as dangerous nor as unpleasant as Marie had led him to
expect. Rather heavy-handed in the violence department, and gabbily flabby with interior
monologues, but carried along by the lively characters and sturdy plot. Overall, well up to
previous standards. -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --
This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Ingram
A social outcast, Thomas Bowe is caught between the rivalry of two merchant
spaceships, one headed by his father and one by the woman whom his father had raped
long ago. By the Hugo Award-winning author ofCyteen. Reprint.PW.
Customer Reviews
probably one of Cherryh's best stand-alone SF novels, October 24,
2000
As far as freebooting space opera goes, C.J. Cherryh's many Alliance-Union novels
(many of which are not part of a specific series and can stand alone) are one of the high
refinements of the art today. _Tripoint_ is in the top tier of that elite grouping.
Cherryh's character development abilities are really showcased here: a young man
stuck on a ship captained by hostile step-family, a fascinating navigator present under
tantalizingly suspicious circumstances, a diverse and interesting crew. Beyond it all is the
sense of the void--the feeling of an impersonal universe that will kill you if the airlock
seals give way, and not experience regret for you--that helps you imagine the experience
of being in space. As ever with Cherryh, predicting the ending is difficult to impossible.
Really high-quality SF, and will appeal to fans of same.
Another winner from C.J., May 3, 2000
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Reviewer
TRIPOINT is an excellent novel loaded with conflict. The characters are all fully
realized three-dimensional people and they are all in turmoil. Cherryh plays them off
each other with skill and cranks up the stakes along the way. Thomas Bowe-Hawkins is
the product of a rape. His mother, Marie, has dedicated her life to tracking down
Thomas's father to kill him. Of course, things come to a head and Thomas finds himself a
prisoner on his father's ship. Add in a half-brother he never knew he had and shake it up
until it explodes! As usual, the action rages and the setting is great. If you like science
fiction, you'll love TRIPOINT. If you like character driven fiction, you'll love
TRIPOINT. Hey, if you just like to read, you'll love TRIPOINT. So you see, you can't go
wrong. Click the buy button already! You can thank me later.
One of my Cherryh favorites, if I had to pick, August 13, 1999
Reviewer:
This was the last Cherryh novel I read, after I discovered her a few years ago. I
resisted it until I had nothing of hers left to read, because I resisted the idea that I would
ever feel any liking or sympathy for a rapist/father character. Not only would I detest the
character myself, I decided I would probably dislike our hero, Tom, if he ever started to
like the guy. However, I forgot about the Cherryh magic, and before long, I, like Tom
himself, found I couldn't hang onto my preconceived ideas of what certain people would
be like. My only regret on this one is that there hasn't been a sequel--I feel it wants one.
Sci-Fi with real characters and plausible technology., October 6,
1998
Reviewer:
Tripoint was my first C.J.Cherryh novel, and sci-fi book for many years. I came across
it totallly by accident on special display at the library. The cover was the usual OK
graphics associated with the genre, but the fly-leaf suggested something more interesting.
So I borrowed it; and my first thoughts when slogging through the first few pages, were:
'what is this dog....?' I'd never read anything quite like it, and if it weren't for the fact that
nothing was due till the next week, I woudln't have. Anyway, for no particularly good
reason other than embarrassment at giving up so easily, I continnued; twenty pages per
night. Page one hundred, and I was hooked, well into the groove of intense viewpoint,
and the finely detailed character interaction. This like all the other Cherryh books I have
read, is a very fine piece of work, and yet, needs to be tackled with a clear head,
especially at the start, due to the highly energetic, and dense writing style which she
employs. A style which can be so very easily off-putting to someone used to a more
straightforward approach. But I have found it one, which is extremely satisfying,
encouraging me to read whatever she writes, with a sense of... what's next?, and while I'm
glad that I've finished yet another big-one, sorry that it's finished. Tripoint along with its
stablemates is, sci-fi beyond the average - which unfortunately is the rule, and why I
stopped reading it - great stuff! Next!
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Contents
TriPoint
by Caroline J. Cherryh
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
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*Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel
