Maurai (the three Maurai stories);
Orion Shall Rise;
There Will Be Time -
- should be published as a boxed set.
Maurai is a linear series whereas the second and third volumes present a sideways sequence, like a knight's move.
Orion Shall Rise begins with an Author's Note stating that the novel is set in the world of the Maurai but is not consistent with the earlier series.
There Will Be Time begins with a Foreword that describes the Maurai stories as works of fiction. The author has been told about the "Maurai" but has modified their story for fictional purposes and has invented this name for them. The time traveling hero visits several past and future periods, including that of the "Maurai," and the fictional name is still used for narrative purposes.
Thus, a reader of the three volumes moves forwards, backwards and sideways in time.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
The interrelationships of the three Maurai short stories ("The Sky People," "Progress," and "Windmill"), ORION SHALL RISE, and THERE WILL BE TIME with each other are certainly more complicated than I had ever thought before of working out. I would need to reread the short stories and then ORION before I could try to figure out why or in what ways the novel is not consistent with the stories. And of course THERE WILL BE TIME (which I still plan to soon reread) adds its own complications!
I had tentatively thought of the three Maurai short stories as coming before the events in ORION SHALL RISE. And that THERE WILL BE TIME was "set" in the later Maurai period, when that power was beginning to decline.
The knight's move in chess is a good analogy for describing the complications posed by these stories.
Sean
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