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Originally Posted by Alohamora
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?
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Yes, type 4. ;-) Jo Walton has nicely categorized the different type of series
https://www.tor.com/2009/04/06/so-wh...s-do-you-like/ and
https://www.tor.com/2012/04/25/heres...ls-and-chunks/, in short like this:
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Style One, The Lord of the Rings, one book with extra pieces of cardboard.
Style Two, Doctrine of Labyrinths, where you have some volume closure but need to read the books in order.
Style Three, Vlad and Vorkosigan, where the cumulative effect of reading all of them is to give you a story arc and more investment in the characters, but it doesn’t really matter where you start and whether you read them in order.
Style Four, Union Alliance, where the volumes are completely independent of each other though they may reflect interestingly on each other.
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