This is a riveting, meticulously crafted, science fiction novel. I was already a fan of Cherryh' s work before listening to Cyteen. This was quite impressive to me, especially considering when this novel was originally published. If you love science and scientific possibilities, or if you enjoy thrilling stories packed with political intrigue, then this story should appeal to you. The narration was very professional, quite pleasing to listen to, in my opinion. Foreigner series fans should feel right at home with certain elements of this story. I give the book and the narration five stars.

I have always thought that Cyteen was one of Cherryh's greatest works, but there are few of them that I do not thoroughly enjoy. The only problem is that Audible hasn't published the sequel- and I need to know what happens next!The characters are flesh and blood and the action takes place within a history and context that make sense. The storyline stands on its own, but is more enjoyable, I think, if a reader has already read or listened to the previous novels detailing the Company wars, and the experiment on Gehenna.But I need to know- was only one person responsible for Ari Senior's murder, or were others involved as well? What will happen to Jordan? We need the sequel: Regenesis !!!!

Justin Warlck- who had to overcome so very much and who seems finally to have found his place. Will it give him the safety and security that he has been denied since he was 17, or will politics both inside and outside of Resune continue to threaten him?

Great job on the narration- voices of individual characters different enough and consistent enough to make them instantly recognizable.

If you are a fan of Cherryh, you will love this book. Every bit as well developed as the Foreigner series, and with that jolt of an ending like Cuckoos Egg.

If u could, I would buy everybody a copy. It's my favorite. Thank you to the reader.

took a while to get into the story but the reader drew me in wonderfully

This is a great listen. I am disappointed to find that 40,000 in Ghenna and Regenisis aren't part of the Audible collection.

The fascinating story of death and resurrection , lies and deceits, aand love, all expertly narrated.

I couldn't do it.This started out as one of the most boring starts of a book that I have heard in a long time. Add in the profanity class.... I could not take it. If you enjoy profanity just for the sake of hearing it and dont mind long political intrigue, to get things started. Then this may be for you.

I couldn't get into the story and I listened to all of Cryptonomicon, so take that for what it's worth.

More action, less politics.

It felt like reading boring news.

Narrator was fine.

I went ahead and finished it because I did start to 'care' about the characters and because the implications of cloning is interesting.

There's a lot of reasons to hate this book: the lengthy boring descriptions that never amount to anything, the cardboard characters, the way it hints at interesting ideas without ever exploring them because it's too busy trying to keep to a soap opera style intrigue and provide regular sex scenes.... But those are all meaningless because of the horrible double standard that rears its ugly head right at the beginning of the book. Any male character who so much as looks at a female in a lustful way is an evil lech, but a female character who rapes a young male character is just being a "strong independent woman." Maybe this was a response to the rampant misogyny present in SF written by men, but utter crap like this does not help anyone.

I would not have gotten through this book if I had not been stuck at work. The one good thing to come of it is now I understand a parody SF story Diana Wynne Jones once wrote where she described female hating, coffee obsessed, star pilots with super computers. Now I get it. She nailed it.