This conceit is especially cogent when one considers that many of Cherryh's works are to some degree a deconstruction of, and re-examination of previous works:

This conceit is especially cogent when one considers that many of Cherryh's works are to some degree a deconstruction of, and re-examination of previous works: - _Rimrunner_ takes a powered armor trooper out of her armor and then examines the place of military in society from a compleatly different angle than Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_ - The Faded Sun trilogy takes an honour-bound warrior culture which has a strange alien life form as a central aspect of society and examines its workings and the interactions with the life form and ecologies in a way which is not possible in Frank Herbert's _Dune_ with its physics laws defying sandworms - the Morgaine trilogy takes the concept of gates and looks at how such devices might relate to and interact with not just societies and cultures, but the very fabric of reality