|
Some might? There are brief author intros to the individual stories, but really, they're designed to be standalone. Often they're things like a story about the Taxi Driver and what happens to her. But the taxi driver doesn't actually appear in one of the novels (until MUCH later, and then only peripherally.) She is a significant character in one of the short stories, and then, when everyone said "Hey, what happened to the taxi driver" enough times, they wrote another story about her. So, if you read the Constellation books in order, I think she's in Constellation 2 and Constellation 3. So you don't need to worry about getting them backwards. And really, you don't need to worry anyway, because each story is standalone. None of the shorter works are dependent on the novels.
|