Ooh, okay, I'll go look up Cyteen. And maybe some of Chanur. Yay!

Gosh, it's been forever since I read Thieves' World... I remember some of the early stuff being interesting, and some of it just not, but it was a really long time ago now. I did like the shared world Liavek (which to the best of my knowledge Cherryh was not involved in, but Pamela Dean and John M. Ford were).