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Alohamora · 11-19-2017, 06:00 AM

What about Connie Willis's time travel series? Are Doomsday Book, To say nothing of the Dog, Blackout and All Clear really a series? Blackout and All Clear together, of course, are. But does as sharing a setting and time travel device make the others into a series?
I read them in publication order, but I'd tell someone it's OK to read any of them stand-alone, treating Blackout/All Clear as one. But my memory is hazy on whether there are any real spoilers if read out of order.

Even If you start at the beginning (publication order), she seems to like dropping the reader into the middle of something already going on.

Is starting in the middle as bad when the author does it themselves? Considering series-wise (Star Wars, Asimov's Foundation) or just the middle of a story for a single book?

11-19-2017, 06:00 AM	#220
Alohamora Evangelist Posts: 446 Karma: 8897438 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: USA Device: Android phone, Fire tablet, ios phone	What about Connie Willis's time travel series? Are Doomsday Book, To say nothing of the Dog, Blackout and All Clear really a series? Blackout and All Clear together, of course, are. But does as sharing a setting and time travel device make the others into a series? I read them in publication order, but I'd tell someone it's OK to read any of them stand-alone, treating Blackout/All Clear as one. But my memory is hazy on whether there are any real spoilers if read out of order. Even If you start at the beginning (publication order), she seems to like dropping the reader into the middle of something already going on. Is starting in the middle as bad when the author does it themselves? Considering series-wise (Star Wars, Asimov's Foundation) or just the middle of a story for a single book? Last edited by Alohamora; 11-19-2017 at 06:37 AM.