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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
So, let me throw something at you from left field: Simon R. Green.
He's written a lot of stuff, mainly series work, in a few different genres...but ultimately, it all links up. Sometimes it's just a reference here and there, but they all fit together in a bizarre way. His twelve-book Nightside series (#1: Something from the Nightside) is about a detective with a mysterious heritage and a daunting reputation who works that small part of London where it's always 3am and monsters walk the streets...and sometimes, vice versa. After several books of that, he started the Secret Histories series (#1: The Man with the Golden Torc), which is very firmly set in the Nightside's world but has more of a James Bond feel, as you might gather from the book titles. As Green was winding the Nightside books down, he started a third series, the Ghost Finders books (#1: Ghost of a Chance), which follows a small team whose mission is to find and squash malevolent ghosts. Yes, this means he's currently publishing at least two books a year, one in each of the SH and GF series. (And oh, happy day - I just noticed that GF5 comes out Tuesday, and there's a collection of Nightside short fiction coming in January!)
All three series can be read independently, but I find it works best to read them all in chronological order by publication date, so the references and occasional crossovers line up. Green's got a wicked sense of humor, and I love playing spot-the-reference while reading his stuff. His books tend to be on the short side; the first Nightside book is 230 pages, so it's not much of a time sink...and if it pays off, you've got over 20 more books ahead of you.
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I didn't know this author at all, but it turns out I have his Nightside series on my hard disk. Doesn't he have only 12 Nightside books printed up till now? Twelve and not twenty?
EDIT : I realize I haven't counted the novellas.