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Originally Posted by Leto Do you have to start with volume One or, as Discworld, all books can be read independantly ? |
Thats a difficult one to answer!
In the pegasus and tower and hive sequences, (which are one serries but two different starting points), the first novel writen was the Rowan. However, the technical start of the story is To ride a Pegasus.
As well as serveral short stories
With the dragon Riders of pern sequence, the first part is a collection of short stories, however this is writen a lot later, called the chronicles of Pern.
The first full length novel in the time continum is Dragon Dawn, but the first Novel writen in the series is Dragonflight, followed by Dragon Quest.
Luckily enough, each novel stands on its own. I personally read dragon Dawn first, and found it difficult to get into. Once i'd made it into the book, however, my imagination was caught. Its more sci-fi than fantasy. After i'd read dragonflight however i found dragonsdawn far more readable.
One of the problems, however, is her continuity. Its attrocious. more as in forgetting the names and details of secondary characters and actual events.
eg: in dragonflight the name of the oldtime weyr leader is T'ron, in dragonsquest it becoms t'ton, then changes back in other books
At the end of the Pegasus sequence, Callisto base is opened, however, in the Rowan (set several hundered years later) Callisto base is new.
These little lapses don't affect overall enjoyment though.
And both series are very positive and uplifting.
The brainship sequences are a little more challenging, posing questions to which the answers are not easy, and sometimes the solution is to learn to live with things.
The Freedom Landing series and Shinara sequences, I found very disjointed and not very enjoyable, while the acorna sequence seemed very young and Niave to me.
She also wrote a sequence about space pirates in collaboration with someonelse that just put me to sleep. and i never could get into them. far to much influence from the collaborator.