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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps to encourage you to buy it?
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Well, sure... I mean, I guess it makes sense from a cold, detached, marketing-bot standpoint to include all the books EXCEPT the single book which changes everything in the main character's life from that point forward, and which subsequent events would make no sense without. It's a critical framing point for 'Komarr' and 'A Civil Campaign', the latter of which might be my favorite of the whole series... except, of course, for 'Memory' itself.
Anyway, either myself or my wife bought all of them (we traded off, because we read them before Cryoburn and the CD came out), and I would have bought them even I had read them for free, because they're just that damn good. Authors like LMB deserve every penny they get, and probably a lot more that they don't get.