Question: 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? 
Sentence (from "C. J. Cherryh"): 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.
Relevant evidence: No