Calling Liaden Fans: Eyes, Please!

[rolanni]

So, we've sold a Big Chunk o'Liaden Universe® stories to a publisher who wishes to list them in universe order in their catalog so that their buyers won't be confused by picking up something in the middle of a sequence (cue laugh track).

kinzel and I have put our poor aching heads together and come up with the following list-in-order, but we're not sure we've got it right. (Note to new authors: In your records, number the stories you write in a consistent universe, if any, so you don't have to go through these head-breakers when you've suddenly got 200,000 words of short stories placed. No, scratch that. Write the stories and have a blast. Worry about the silly paperwork when it arrives in the mail.)

Anyhow, the list is below. Stories marked with ** are anchors. Stories [bracketed] must stay together.

**Necessary Evils**
Naratha's Shadow
Where the Goddess Sends
Spell for the Lost
Wine of Memory
Balance of Trade
Sweet Waters
Phoenix
Pilot of Korval

[Choice of Weapons
Beggar King]

Heirloom
To Cut an Edge

[A Day at the Races
Certain Symmetry]

Veil of the Dancer

[A Matter of Dreams
Moonphase]

Changeling
Quiet Knives
Breath's Duty
Lord of the Dance
Prodigal Son
**King of the Cats**

If anyone spots any dire misplacements, please do let me know.

Thanks!

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

In all fairness, the publisher probably needs two lists. One is chronology within the universe. The other is the order of publication.

Me, I tend to read things in the order written because writers evolve in style, and universes that grow organically do so by publication date. Not all recollections are dead on the detail....

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

And you can tell that to Toni !!

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Wrong publisher

Heh.

[(Anonymous)]

Well whatever publisher, there *are* two ways to approach series sequencing.