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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7491499" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>Oh yes, it is.</p><p></p><p>To me the whole series is fantastic. Because Miles (and for the books before he is born, his mother Cordelia) is such a wonderful protagonist. Full of flaws that he both works around and trip him up, gets himself deeper in trouble regularly. And he grows and changes over the series. I'd put him in my top ten literary protagonists ever.</p><p></p><p>But there are a few books in the series that are just tangentially related. I find those solid, but the quality can wander all the way down to "good but slow". For example Falling Free is a tearjerker - but is connected to the rest of the series by introducing a people 200 years before you see them in any of the other books. </p><p></p><p>There's also a few continuity blips because the publication order does not match the chronological order in the least. (I'd strongly suggest reading in the internal chronological order.) Nothing bad, but for example a book that dealt with one culture was written 15 years after a short story with antagonists from that culture, but chronologically the book comes right before the short story and few of the wonderful details in the book are present for that culture in the short story.</p><p></p><p>All of that said, the books are fairly short - because plots move along at a good pace. The omnibus collections have the short stories, which I really enjoy even though normally I prefer the novel format. The Mountains of Mourning was one I recently finished and hoo boy. </p><p></p><p>At times I'm cheering or laughing for what's going on in the books, other times I get leaky around the eyes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7491499, member: 20564"] Oh yes, it is. To me the whole series is fantastic. Because Miles (and for the books before he is born, his mother Cordelia) is such a wonderful protagonist. Full of flaws that he both works around and trip him up, gets himself deeper in trouble regularly. And he grows and changes over the series. I'd put him in my top ten literary protagonists ever. But there are a few books in the series that are just tangentially related. I find those solid, but the quality can wander all the way down to "good but slow". For example Falling Free is a tearjerker - but is connected to the rest of the series by introducing a people 200 years before you see them in any of the other books. There's also a few continuity blips because the publication order does not match the chronological order in the least. (I'd strongly suggest reading in the internal chronological order.) Nothing bad, but for example a book that dealt with one culture was written 15 years after a short story with antagonists from that culture, but chronologically the book comes right before the short story and few of the wonderful details in the book are present for that culture in the short story. All of that said, the books are fairly short - because plots move along at a good pace. The omnibus collections have the short stories, which I really enjoy even though normally I prefer the novel format. The Mountains of Mourning was one I recently finished and hoo boy. At times I'm cheering or laughing for what's going on in the books, other times I get leaky around the eyes. [/QUOTE]
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