The Morgaine books were my first exposure to Cherryh; I found them hard going, but in a good way.
I think the problem with the gates was that (being FTL transport) they created causality violation and paradox when they were used to go backwards in time, and eventually it got bad enough to destabilize the Universe.
There's a related story in the short story collection that came out the other year, set at the time when the Gate network was starting to unravel.
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Fri, Jun. 9th, 2006 03:19 pm (UTC)I think the problem with the gates was that (being FTL transport) they created causality violation and paradox when they were used to go backwards in time, and eventually it got bad enough to destabilize the Universe.
There's a related story in the short story collection that came out the other year, set at the time when the Gate network was starting to unravel.