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Re: Bookshelves

By: De_Composed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Mon, 14 Oct 24 5:45 AM | 16 view(s)
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Re: “I can't remember if HellBurner and Heavy Time were part of the Alliance-Union story line or not.”Getting a series name right - not to mention a book's place in it - is tricky. A lot of books are part of several series. Among Star Trek books, for instance, one book might be classified as Star_Trek #341, Star_Trek_TNG #42 and Star_Trek_Yars_Revenge #4. Since my database can only support one series per title, this can be a challenge. I used to go with what the book's cover said, if it said... but then I started coming across duplicate books that said they belonged to different series!

Then there are "Trilogies" where the author goes and adds another five books. Sometimes the 7th book the author writes is a prequel that comes before any of the others. Even worse, he writes book 1.5 of the series. Or some OTHER author starts writing books in the first author's universe. Remember when all the Star Trek books were by James Blish? I do.

Anyway, it's hit and miss. I did the best I could, sometimes changing my rules after I'd already been adding books to the database for a year. And here I am doing it again, defining "Paperback" as "a softcover that's short enough to fit on my shelves" and "Oversized Paperback" as a softcover that won't!

Returning to the topic, I think Hellburner and Heavy Time are part of The Company Wars. And I suspect the Company Wars take place in the Alliance-Union universe. Goodreads.com just says that they are part of The Company Wars.Re: “What do you have of David Weber's 'HonorVerse'?”I don't. I've got eight David Weber books. Five [Flag In Exile, Field of Dishonor, Honor Among Enemies, Echoes of Honor, The Short Victorious War] are in the "Honor_Harrington" series, and one [Worlds of Honor] is in the "Worlds_of_Honor" series.





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Re: Bookshelves
By: Zimbler0 in 6TH POPE
Mon, 14 Oct 24 4:53 AM 		Msg. 59414 of 60008

Hmmm . . .
I can't remember if HellBurner and Heavy Time were part of the Alliance-Union story line or not.

There are three separate Cyteen novels . . a short series. I read them out of order, and I felt a lot of 'Deja-Vu' in there. It starts out with 'Ariane Emory' - who dies. A clone to replace her is born and raised to be Ariane. Eventually she grows up, and re-claims Ariane's life with a couple of twists.

What do you have of David Weber's 'HonorVerse'?

Zim.

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