Bayley, Barrington J. (CJ Cherryh)

Carolyn Janice Cherry, better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 80 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels Downbelow Station and Cyteen, both set in her Alliance–Union universe, and her Foreigner series.