Eye Candy

[rolanni]

The UPS Guy came to the door just as kinzel and I were sitting down to lunch, and delivered unto us the cover flats for the Ace edition of Crystal Soldier. It's an interesting cover, though the authors are somewhat bemused to learn from the enclosed sales points that Soldier is the sequel to Balance of Trade.

Cover

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[kimuro.livejournal.com]

{humbly raising hand}

I wouldn't mind being pointed in the direction of a timeline. I gave up (temporarily) on I Dare because there's too much of a gap between that and Agent of Change. I'm not quite sure what comes between them. Plan B most definitely - but another as well?

I read Scout's Progress instead. FWIW, looking at the covers of both Crystal Soldier and Balance of Trade in the bookstore today, I was wondering if they were sequential myself. There is a certain similarity in the pose and presence of the man who is prominent therein on both covers.

[orlacarey.livejournal.com]

No problem. The easiest place to start is http://www.korval.com/faqliad.htm Which is the Liaden faq. According to it:

For those who like to read things in "universe order," that would be: Local Custom, Scout's Progress, Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, Carpe Diem, Plan B, I Dare.

If you were to update this to current books, Crystal Soldier and Crystal Dragon are the first two, taking place many many moons before all of the other books.

It's been a little while since I've read Balance of Trade but while it's in the same universe, it really doesn't "fit" with the rest of the books in that the main characters aren't the same.

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

At the moment, the fact that it isn't directly connected is a plus, to my view. I was getting frustrated with I Dare because it was dependent on information which was not available to me. I'm going to have to force my way through that bar, though, 'cause I have to find out what happens to Val and Miri.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Think there's a reading order at the Liaden wiki. Hang on a sec...

OK, sorted by internal chronological order (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaden_universe#History_of_the_series)

Friends of Liad Generally Accepted Reading Order for the seven books in Agent of Change sequence can be found at the Liaden Universe(R) homepage (http://www.korval.com/liad.htm). You'll need to scroll down a bit.

FWIW, looking at the covers of both Crystal Soldier and Balance of Trade in the bookstore today, I was wondering if they were sequential myself. There is a certain similarity in the pose and presence of the man who is prominent therein on both covers.

There is, indeed. Which is really not fair to Jethri (the young man on the cover of Balance of Trade) or to Jela (the title character on the cover of Crystal Soldier). Despite both names starting with "J". *g*