Under no circumstances should you read the sequence of novels that starts with Brothers in Arms out of order.
This this this this this.
The early ones can be tricky to find on their own because they've been republished in a few different compilation volumes. Warrior's Apprentice and The Vor Game are in Young Miles, Cetaganda and Ethan of Athos are in Miles, Mystery and Mayhem, and Borders of Infinity, Brothers in Arms, and Mirror Dance are in Miles Errant. And I think there are a few extra short stories thrown into the comp books, too.
"Mountains of Mourning" in
Borders of Infinity
goes right after
The Warrior's Apprentice. The Warrior's Apprentice,
"Mountains of Mourning," and
The Vor Game
were put together into
Young Miles.
"Labyrinth" in
Borders of Infinity
and the framing device for the stories is set after
Cetaganda.
I think
Ethan of Athos
is really set after
Cetaganda.
Elli Quinn, who's a character in a number of the Miles books, is in
Ethan of Athos,
but it doesn't otherwise relate to the action in the series.
(edited because the italics were winning)
Excellent, thank you. Will start looking for those after I finish what I've got! Of course, some of the HSQ may be ruined already...sort of. I know I read SOME of the books about ten or twelve years ago. I know Shards of Honor and Barrayar were two of them, but what else I read? I have no idea. So we'll see if anything seems weirdly familiar. :)
Having just bought ALL the books, I'll say this: Several of the books individually are out of print, specifically, "Warrior's Apprentice", "Vor Game" and "Mirror Dance". I got WA and VG relatively cheaply from used book vendors online, but it'd have been cheaper just to buy "Young Miles". Also, "Mirror Dance" alone is deuced hard to find at a reasonable price (even through Bookfinder.com, where all available copies were $15+), so get "Miles Errant" instead. I actually had bought "Borders of Infinity" and "Brothers in Arms" *separately* before I realized this, so now I have two copies of those two books....
I'm starting to find the joys of this being a big, sprawling series. Haven't read "Ethan of Athos" yet, but when I got the book in mail, I did a Snoopy Dance when I realized that one of the main characters in that book was someone I already met (briefly) in "Warrior's Apprentice".
On a related note: That fantasy casting game thing? Ever since Shaye mentioned Hilary Swank as Bel, I have been unable to picture anyone else in the role. It's kind of disturbing, because everyone else's face remains blurry and amorphous, but there would Bel be, with that wide mouth and angular jaw and short brown hair, sharp as you please.
According to the BBC [link] a secret staircase matching the one described by Bronte has just been found in a house that was believed to have been part of the inspiration for
Jane Eyre.
Now if they find the bones of a demented relative ...
Oh, that is cool.
I'm reading
The Compass Rose,
which is a collection of Ursula K. LeGuin's short stories, and it's depressing the hell out of me. It was published about 30 years ago, and while the stories are speculative fiction they are clearly about the socio-political climate then. If I'd read it, oh, 6 years ago, I wouldn't be depressed. I'd be smug. I'd be thinking, "I am so glad we got past all that bullshit!"
But now? Now I'm depressed.
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Does anyone know of a Netflix-like service for audiobooks?
I know my grandmother gets to borrow them for free from (I'm pretty sure) Perkins School for the Blind, but she's actually going blind. Not sure if it's available to the general public.
Does anyone know of a Netflix-like service for audiobooks?
Anne, my dad's been using Recorded Books for years. Their readers are excellent.
