This focus, in turn, places Le Guin's novel within a body of later works - such as Mary Gentle's Golden Witchbreed novels (1984-87) and C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner series (1994-96) - that deal with an outside observer's arrival on an alien planet, all of which indicate the difficulty of translating the life-style of an alien species into a language and cultural experience that is comprehensible.
However, their popularity exploded only over a decade later with the Alliance-Union universe series by C. J. Cherryh from 1976.
The Rusalka trilogy of novels by C. J. Cherryh feature and revolve around a rusalka named Eveshka.
The reviewer of Locus appreciated the ambitious structure of Leckie's novel, which interweaves several past and present strands of action in a manner reminiscent of Iain M. Banks's Use of Weapons, and its engagement with the tropes of recent space opera as established by Banks, Ursula K. Le Guin, C.J. Cherryh and others.
His art has adorned the covers of books by such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, C. J. Cherryh, Stephen King, Gene Wolfe, Michael Moorcock, and Raymond E. Feist.
Authors translated included US most famous fantasy writers, such as Robert E. Howard, Jack Vance, C. J. Cherryh, David Gemmell, Harry Turtledove and others.
Downbelow Station, a science fiction novel by C. J. Cherryh set in her Alliance-Union universe
The Gene Wars universe, a science fiction and fantasy universe developed by C. J. Cherryh
Translator and poet Burton Raffel wrote in an essay "C.J. Cherryh's Fiction" that he was impressed that Hunter of Worlds "explores not only multiple-levels of species relationships, but species differences of an extraordinary nature".
In 1979, Saint Camber ranked 18th in an annual poll of Locus magazine readers, placing it between Michael Moorcock's Gloriana and C.J. Cherryh's The Faded Sun: Shon'jir.