Cherryh’s Alternate Realities #1

Port Eternity

by C. J. Cherryh

Release: October 1982
Format: Novel
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: No Time Phenomena
Original Language: English

Living an isolated life on the spaceship Maid of Astolat, Lady Dela and her crew of cloned servants designed in the image of Arthurian legends are pulled into a parallel dimension, but despite the title of this first book in Cherryh’s Alternate Realities series, there is no actual time travel.

— from publicity material

Then it was as if whatever was holding us had just stopped existing, no jolt, but like sliding on oil, like a horrible falling where there is no falling.

DEBUT

Port Eternity (DAW Books, October 1982).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TRANSLATIONS

Translations to French

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Unspecified Future Year: Or at least we never saw the year.

Themes

Despite Title, No Time Penomena

Fictional Tags

Camelot: Only through Lady Dela’s cloned servants.
Parallel Universes or Dimensions