Pop quiz!

[rolanni]

All righty, then!  Settle your thinking caps and riddle me this:

What are the five main Liaden Universe® story threads?  Please show your work.

Comments

[ellenru.livejournal.com]

My grouping tends to be internal chronology.

Crystal duology
Trade books
The "previous" generation - Daav, Er Thom, etc.
Theo sequence - including the two "ship" books
Agent of Change to Necessity's Child - I see Conflict of Honors as the prologue to this,

This is partially because I have a colour-coded (yes, I can go too far in these things) timeline of books and events in the official "List of Books I Own" - which not only has the novels, but also the short stories and as many "events" as the authors have listed or what I have been able to set based on information given in the works. Not only am I hopelessly visual when it comes to remembering things, but also dreadfully linear.

However, even having only read the sample chapters I can see how the themes of "what do you do when you learn something about your past that throws everything you thought you knew into disarray", "Melant'i - honour or petulance?", "what does Balance consist in?" and "personal responsibility vs. the clan". which I have encountered is a myriad of ways across the canon, are beginning to play out for Jethri and which, I assume, will continue for the rest of the work.