Precursor

National best-selling author and winner of three Hugo Awards, C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed Foreigner trilogy-with an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race.
The beginning of a second trilogy, Precursor follows a single human delegate living among aliens, who are just gaining access to space....
Praise for Precursor...
An addition to Cherryh's superior alien-contact series...Another intriguing human/alien struggle.-Kirkus ReviewsA powerful look at the effects of alienation on individuals and societies.-Locus
...and C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner Universe:
Superlatively drawn aliens and characterization...a return to the anthropological science fiction in which [Cherryh] has made such a name is a double pleasure.-Chicago Sun-Times
An incisive study-in-contrast of what it means to be human.-Library Journal