Actually, I'd read Chanur before vet school, so my perceptions of the books would be vastly different now. Yes, her writing is sometimes oddly dense to the reader. The reason I remember Chanur is those books were less dense, more accessible. It was almost a different writer.
Thinking of biology affecting behavior reminds me of Tanya Huff and her take on werewolves. This I read as a resident, and the behavioral differences in Huff's werewolves was awesome -- and made such good sense I wondered why no one else had thought of it before. Wolf (and wild canid in general) society is very different from the human concept of "family", but we tend to think of canids as being family-types because they join our packs so nicely.
Lions have different packs and different social structures. I vaguely recall that the Chanur books at least addressed the typical "lioness hunting/lion lazing about" sort of thing.
Heh..musing over what you'd written, I pondered momentarily the possibility of melding Cherryh's plot and environment with Misty's characterizations. Yeah, I know, it's been done (Merovingen Nights). Still.
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Date: 2005-12-07 03:55 am (UTC)Thinking of biology affecting behavior reminds me of Tanya Huff and her take on werewolves. This I read as a resident, and the behavioral differences in Huff's werewolves was awesome -- and made such good sense I wondered why no one else had thought of it before. Wolf (and wild canid in general) society is very different from the human concept of "family", but we tend to think of canids as being family-types because they join our packs so nicely.
Lions have different packs and different social structures. I vaguely recall that the Chanur books at least addressed the typical "lioness hunting/lion lazing about" sort of thing.
Heh..musing over what you'd written, I pondered momentarily the possibility of melding Cherryh's plot and environment with Misty's characterizations. Yeah, I know, it's been done (Merovingen Nights). Still.