Book Club: Foreigner 1: Foreigner

This is a post for collecting comments on the book club* (re)read of C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series, starting with the eponymous novel. Feel free to join in if you'd like! Please avoid major spoilers for further books in the series (minor spoilers are fine) since it's not a reread for everyone.

I'll put up a new post for each book as I happen to reach it myself.

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* For values of 'book club' that mean 'me and two friends'