# Defender

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- Book: [Defender](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-j-cherryh/defender) ([Defender.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-j-cherryh/defender.md))
- Authors: [C. J. Cherryh](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-j-cherryh)
- Publisher: daw
- ISBN: 978-07-5640-020-0
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2002-11-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The fifth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences… Nearly ten years after the unexpected return of the starship...