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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm a Nagata fan, too. I read the the Nanotech Succession because I didn't want to start her Inverted Fontier series without the background. I actually started with the Tech-Heaven prequel which while short and OK, was not really necessary. The Bohr Maker definitely finished stronger than it started. The subsequent novels get a little convoluted, but still quite good.
I like to think I'm enjoying the Inverted Frontier series more--having read The Nanotech Succession--but there's no way of knowing for sure.
I've really enjoyed her near-future sci-fi stuff, too. The Trials, The Last Good Man, etc...
She's a good example of a modern author who is published in paper traditionally, but has managed to forge contracts where she retains the rights to publish her own ebooks.
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The Bohr Maker was my first from Nagata, so thanks for a run down on some of the others.
The "Summer House" from that story (I keep going to call it the "Summer Tree"
) put me in mind of the evolved spacefaring creatures from Gregory Benford's
Beyond the Fall of Night (a sequel to Arthur C. Clarke's
Against the Fall of Night which later became
The City and the Stars). But I did like Nagata's story much better (I'm not a fan of Benford's book, to put it mildly).