I love the Foreigner series! There are 12 now. I've only read the first 9, because I'm weird and prefer to have my books all in the same format, so I've been waiting for the last trilogy to come out in paperback. I can say that in the end of one of the trilogies, you get to find out more about the ship.
If you liked Foreigner and haven't read everything else by CJ Cherryh, get to it ;) I'm fond of her Alliance-Union series, and her fantasy is pretty good, too. The Faded Sun trilogy is great fun, and for a story in which a human meets aliens & becomes one of them, it doesn't suffer from "what these people need is a honky" syndrome. Duncan becomes a bit of a proto-paidhi between the mri and the humans.
Mark Van Name writes space opera (marketed as military SF, but he calls it "adventure stories") that isn't as plagued by right-wing loonies as the rest of the Baen catalog. (He calls himself their token liberal.) I read Children No More last year, and it was really good. It's about rehabilitating child soldiers, so it's not a light, fun romp, but it's *really* good. He donated his advance and all the proceeds from the first print run to Falling Whistles, an NGO that works with child soldiers in Africa. His first two books and a couple novellas have just been republished in an omnibus called Jump Gate Twist, with a cover that has some art that's not what you'd expect from a Baen Cover™. It's sitting on my desk, and I need to read it.
Basically, there's this guy Jon who's a mercenary-ish ex-soldier, and he's got a really cool spaceship with a snarky AI named Lobo. They go adventuring.
If you can stomach right-wing nuttery threaded in, Darkship Thieves, the book I was ranting about earlier, isn't TERRIBLE. I can't completely wholeheartedly recommend it, but it's worth borrowing from the library.
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If you liked Foreigner and haven't read everything else by CJ Cherryh, get to it ;) I'm fond of her Alliance-Union series, and her fantasy is pretty good, too. The Faded Sun trilogy is great fun, and for a story in which a human meets aliens & becomes one of them, it doesn't suffer from "what these people need is a honky" syndrome. Duncan becomes a bit of a proto-paidhi between the mri and the humans.
Mark Van Name writes space opera (marketed as military SF, but he calls it "adventure stories") that isn't as plagued by right-wing loonies as the rest of the Baen catalog. (He calls himself their token liberal.) I read Children No More last year, and it was really good. It's about rehabilitating child soldiers, so it's not a light, fun romp, but it's *really* good. He donated his advance and all the proceeds from the first print run to Falling Whistles, an NGO that works with child soldiers in Africa. His first two books and a couple novellas have just been republished in an omnibus called Jump Gate Twist, with a cover that has some art that's not what you'd expect from a Baen Cover™. It's sitting on my desk, and I need to read it.
Basically, there's this guy Jon who's a mercenary-ish ex-soldier, and he's got a really cool spaceship with a snarky AI named Lobo. They go adventuring.
If you can stomach right-wing nuttery threaded in, Darkship Thieves, the book I was ranting about earlier, isn't TERRIBLE. I can't completely wholeheartedly recommend it, but it's worth borrowing from the library.