A review by heyt
Forty Thousand in Gehenna by C.J. Cherryh

3.0

I will say that I enjoyed this more than I thought I would initially. This is a multigenerational tale but man was the first generation so boring I almost wanted to give up. I liked watching as each generation unfolded and developed in new and unique ways to the one before it. This starts off as a tale of colonialism but then diverges into something of an anthropological nature and defining sentient species. The section of the book I liked the best was VII Elai and that's because of the relationship between Elai and McGee. Just McGee for everything. I love her so much be it her departmental memo shade or her devotion to fieldwork hands down my favorite character.