The Chanur novels is a series of five science fiction novels, forming three separate stories, written by American author C. J. Cherryh, an American writer of speculative fiction, and published by which organization?
C. J. Cherryh Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction. She has written more than 60 books since the mid-1970s, including the Hugo Award-winning novels "Downbelow Station" (1981) and "Cyteen" (1988), both set in her Alliance-Union universe. She is known for "world building," depicting fictional realms with great realism supported by vast research in history, language, psychology, and archeology. Her series of fantasy novels set in the Alliance-Union universe, the Morgaine Stories, have sold in excess of 3 million copies.
Bentham Science Publishers Bentham Science Publishers is a company that publishes scientific, technical, and medical journals and e-books. It publishes more than 100 subscription-based academic journals and over 60 open access journals. It is based at Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, and has operating units in the United States, Japan, China, India, and the Netherlands. The company workforce is outsourced to Pakistan. Its open access branch, Bentham Open Science, has received severe criticism for its questionable peer-review practices, and was listed as a "Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publisher" in Jeffrey Beall's list of Predatory Publishers (which is now defunct). However Bentham publishes a large number of journals with respectable Impact factors and with several Nobel Laureates on the respective Editorial Boards.