Question: What science fiction novel about the murder of a major Union politician and scientist was written by Carolyn Janice Cherry?

Context articles: Double Jeopardy (novel)
Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
Women in speculative fiction
Timescape
Russell R. Winterbotham
Ilium (novel)
C. J. Cherryh
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Cyteen
Blindsight (Watts novel)

Double Jeopardy is a science fiction novel by Fletcher Pratt.
 It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1952, and reprinted as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club in 1953.
 The first paperback edition was issued in digest form by Galaxy Publishing Corporation as its "Galaxy Science Fiction Novel" #30 in 1957; a second paperback edition was issued by Curtis Books in 1967.
 The novel has been translated into Italian.
 The book is a combination of two shorter pieces, the novellas "Double Jeopardy" and "The Square Cube Law," originally published in the magazine "Thrilling Wonder Stories" in the issues for April, 1952 and June, 1952, respectively.
Newton's Wake: A Space Opera is a science fiction novel by British writer Ken MacLeod, published in 2004.
 Set in the 24th century, it follows human life after a partially cataclysmic Singularity, and in particular a conflict on a far-flung planet that upsets the prevailing order.
 It has elements of both transhumanism and satire and is written using the printed versions of common translation stereotypes (e.g. Scottish people say "tae").
 The novel was nominated for the British Science Fiction Award in 2004, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel in 2005.
In 1948, 10–15% of science fiction writers were female.
 Women's role in speculative fiction (including science fiction) has grown since then, and in 1999, women comprised 36% of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America's professional members. "
Frankenstein" (1818) by Mary Shelley has been called the first science fiction novel, although women wrote utopian novels even before that, with Margaret Cavendish publishing the first ("The Blazing World") in the seventeenth century.
 Early published fantasy was written by and for both genders.
 However, speculative fiction, with science fiction in particular, has traditionally been viewed as a male-oriented genre.
Timescape is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford (with unbilled co-author Hilary Foister, Benford's sister-in-law, who is credited as having "contributed significantly to the manuscript").
 It won the 1981 Nebula and 1980 British Science Fiction Award, and the 1981 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
 The novel was widely hailed by both critics of science fiction and mainstream literature for its fusion of detailed character development and interpersonal drama with more standard science fiction fare such as time travel and ecological issues.
Russell Robert Winterbotham (August 1, 1904 – June 9, 1971) was an American writer of western and science fiction genre fiction, and the author of instructional pamphlets and several Big Little Books.
 He also wrote crime stories and one science fiction novel ("The Other World") using the pen name J. Harvey Bond.
 Another science fiction novel used the pseudonym Franklin Hadley.
Ilium is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, the first part of the "Ilium/Olympos" cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in the "Iliad" on an alternate Earth and Mars.
 These events are set in motion by beings who have taken on the roles of the Greek gods.
 Like Simmons' earlier series, the Hyperion Cantos, the novel is a form of "literary science fiction" which relies heavily on intertextuality, in this case with Homer and Shakespeare, as well as periodic references to Marcel Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" (or "In Search of Lost Time") and Vladimir Nabokov's novel "".
 In July 2004, "Ilium" received a Locus Award for best science fiction novel of 2004.
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.
Kathleen Ann Goonan (born 14 May 1952) is an American science fiction writer.
 Several of her books have been nominated for the Nebula Award.
 Her debut novel "Queen City Jazz" was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and her novel "In War Times" was chosen by the American Library Association as Best Science Fiction Novel for their 2008 reading list.
 In July 2008, In War Times won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
 Her most recent novel, "This Shared Dream" was released in July 2011 by Tor Books.
Cyteen (1988) is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe.
 The murder of a major Union politician and scientist has deep, long-lasting repercussions.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006.
 It garnered nominations for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
 The novel follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed 'Burns-Caulfield' that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the solar system, followed by their subsequent first contact.
 The novel explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology.
 "Blindsight" is available online under a Creative Commons license.
 Its sequel "Echopraxia" came out in 2014.