You know, this puts the finger on something that I think is somewhat unique to Cherryh among popular SF authors: most people agree on that author's superior works (e.g., most people think Card's Speaker for the Dead is a good book and think Children of the Mind isn't nearly so good; or, for Bujold, think Memory is miles better than Diplomatic Immunity) but people seem to have wildly different ideas on which of Cherryh's books are "the best"...