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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Huh? 
They are usually both a subseries of something. |
So for Asimov, you'd need a "Galactic Empire" series as a way to subsume the Foundation series and Robots series, and I have no idea how you'd order them in any meaningful sequence; Agatha Christie has five books featuring Superintendent Battle, but number 3 (Cards on the Table) is also Poirot #15 -- would I need a "Male Detectives" series to include Poirot and Battle but exclude Miss Marple and Tommy & Tuppence? -- P.G. Wodehouse has a Psmith series and a Blandings Castle series and a Jeeves series and an Uncle Fred series which all overlap to some extent (Psmith #2 is also Blandings #4, Uncle Fred #1 is also Blandings #6...), so you'd need an overarching series called "Books by P.G.Wodehouse"... which kind of misses the point really...
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
"Nontrivial".
The issue has come up before.  |
Indeed. Having had to re-engineer a fairly large live DB in exactly this way once in the past, I wouldn't expect it to happen any time soon...
