A
Alliance-Union
The Alliance-Union Universe is a series of science fiction novels by American novelist C.J. Cherryh . The novels set in this universe range between space opera and hard science fiction. In the series, space stations have been privatized by the Sol Corporation, and are being built increasingly further away from Earth. Those stationed at the various locations all eventually develop their own unique identities and cultures. Tensions develop and some of the colonists break off of the Earth Company and begin to engineer an army of clones, which starts a war between the Company and the independent Union.