The Faded Sun: Kutath

London, England: Science Fiction Book Club. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. First British Edition, First British Hardcover edition. The book and its contents are in clean condition -- unfortunately, the paper used for this book is easily toned and this copy shows noticeable toning, especially to the page edges. The dust jacket is slane and crisp, but also shows noticeable toning to the edges and spine. This is the third and final book in the Faded Sun series. "Kutath was an ancient world and a dying one. In ages past its best sons and daughters had gone to the stars to serve as mercenaries in the wars of aliens. Now the survivors of its far-flung people, the mri, had come back - in the form of a single woman, the last priestess-queen Melein, and a single man, the last warrior, Niun. And one other - the human Sten Duncan who had deserted Earth's military to swear service to the foes of his own species." "Cherryh (pronounced "Cherry") appended a silent "h" to her real name because her first editor, Donald A. Wollheim, felt that "Cherry" sounded too much like a romance writer. [3] Her initials, C. J. , were used to disguise the fact that she was female at a time when almost all science fiction authors were male" .