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I've been reading a lot of Cherryh's Union/Alliance books lately (just finished Rimrunners) but I'm still not sure if I like them. I defiantly like the complex world building that she is doing. However one thing that bothers me is the sexism -- not the author's sexism exactly but the societies she writes about are fairly sexist -- pretty much in line with sexism at the time of writing. Cherryh makes it feel really creepy and unjust(eg the treatment of the male and female researchers in Forty Thousand in Gehenna) while kind of just expecting that's what life will be like for women in the future.