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#21 Book Review: Downbelow Station (1981) by C.J. Cherryh
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Andy Johnson
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Episode 21
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C.J. Cherryh's 1981 novel Downbelow Station won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, becoming the first book published by DAW Books to achieve this feat. A part of the long-running Alliance-Union universe, the novel is one of the definitive space station stories - but does it still hold up?
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