For more than forty years, science fiction writer C.J. Cherryh has been telling stories of a future history through the novels and short stories in her Alliance-Union series. In the following email interview, she and her life and writing partner Jane S. Fancher discuss Alliance Rising (hardcover, Kindle), the first book in their new subseries The Hinder Stars, while Cherryh also briefly discusses the new paperback edition of her non-Alliance-Union novel, Emergence.