We're knee deep in Hamilton and Reynolds bugcrushers, yet you're relatively hard to find. But maybe I've misunderstood what it's about?)Īnd, Neal, if you see this: beat up your agent and publisher (or whoever) until they make your books more accessible over here in the US. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down - because something alien is pursuing them. Incidentally, how is that a 'stand alone' if it also features Ian Cormac? It may be a separate story if the other five tell a single one, but I wouldn't think to call it stand alone. Polity Agent From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien 'Maker' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. That I think I will wait on - it may be a prequel, but it's written after and - for a very weird analogy, but the only one that immediately comes to mind, other than maybe some Flandry ordering - I don't think anyone should read A Stainless Steel Rat is Born before they read the original trilogy. If I generally prefer reading series in order but I'm getting tired of getting hung up waiting for things to fall into place, should I wait for The Line of Polity or is reading Brass Man directly after Gridlinked an option? I've read The Engineer Reconditioned and (more relevantly) Gridlinked. Maybe I should start a new thread for this but general 'ordering' questions seem relevant.
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