-copied from here.
Series that I have in mind are:
the
Holmes canon, which ended with Holmes’ death but then found ways to continue;
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis;
the nine Church of England novels by Susan Howatch;
the Time Patrol series by Poul Anderson;
the Exiles/Intervention/Milieu sequence by Julian May;
and, of course, the James Bond series by Ian Fleming.
-copied from (see above).
See also:
The Structure Of A Series: Conan Doyle
The Structure Of A Series: Conan Doyle II
The Structure Of A Series: Holmes Omnibuses
The Structure Of A Series: Poul Anderson
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis;
the nine Church of England novels by Susan Howatch;
the Time Patrol series by Poul Anderson;
the Exiles/Intervention/Milieu sequence by Julian May;
and, of course, the James Bond series by Ian Fleming.
-copied from (see above).
See also:
The Structure Of A Series: Conan Doyle
The Structure Of A Series: Conan Doyle II
The Structure Of A Series: Holmes Omnibuses
The Structure Of A Series: Poul Anderson
The Structure of an Earlier Anderson Series
The Structure Of A Series: John Carter
The Structure Of A Series: Robert Heinlein
The Structure Of Two Series: Sandman And Lucifer
The Structure Of They Shall Have Stars
The Structure Of A Series: John Carter
The Structure Of A Series: Robert Heinlein
The Structure Of Two Series: Sandman And Lucifer
The Structure Of They Shall Have Stars
Structures Of Series
To the above list of series, I now add:
Dornford Yates's Chandos books;
Poul Anderson's Technic History;
more specifically, the Polesotechnic League/Ythrian section of the Technic History.
I will post about the Chandos series on Personal and Literary Reflections when I have reread more of it. (Later: See here, then here.) I have posted about the first section of the Technic History here. (Scroll down.)
To summarize yet again:
two volumes, each collecting three stories, plus two novels equals the Polesotechnic League Tetralogy, comprising eight installments of the Polesotechnic League series which is part of the Technic History;
one novel plus one omnibus volume, collecting eleven stories and one novel, comprise the two Avalonian volumes containing thirteen installments of the Technic History;
one volume collecting three further stories would complete this pre-Flandry section of the Technic History;
however, the middle eight of the twelve items collected in the Avalonian omnibus volume comprise a second half of the Polesotechnic League series with introductions written by the Avalonian Ythrian, Hloch of the Stormgate Choth;
the Polesotechnic League Tetralogy culminates in Mirkheim which mentions an Ythrian;
the eight League installments introduced by Hloch culminate in "Lodestar" about van Rijn's discovery of Mirkheim while traveling in an Ythrian ship;
the remaining five items in the two Avalonian volumes present a systematic account of human-Ythrian interactions, first on Ythri, then on Avalon.
An extraordinary emergent structure.
To the above list of series, I now add:
Dornford Yates's Chandos books;
Poul Anderson's Technic History;
more specifically, the Polesotechnic League/Ythrian section of the Technic History.
I will post about the Chandos series on Personal and Literary Reflections when I have reread more of it. (Later: See here, then here.) I have posted about the first section of the Technic History here. (Scroll down.)
To summarize yet again:
two volumes, each collecting three stories, plus two novels equals the Polesotechnic League Tetralogy, comprising eight installments of the Polesotechnic League series which is part of the Technic History;
one novel plus one omnibus volume, collecting eleven stories and one novel, comprise the two Avalonian volumes containing thirteen installments of the Technic History;
one volume collecting three further stories would complete this pre-Flandry section of the Technic History;
however, the middle eight of the twelve items collected in the Avalonian omnibus volume comprise a second half of the Polesotechnic League series with introductions written by the Avalonian Ythrian, Hloch of the Stormgate Choth;
the Polesotechnic League Tetralogy culminates in Mirkheim which mentions an Ythrian;
the eight League installments introduced by Hloch culminate in "Lodestar" about van Rijn's discovery of Mirkheim while traveling in an Ythrian ship;
the remaining five items in the two Avalonian volumes present a systematic account of human-Ythrian interactions, first on Ythri, then on Avalon.
An extraordinary emergent structure.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
When it comes to Cloak and Dagger series, my pet hope is that you try out sometime the first two volumes of William F. Buckley, Jr.'s Blackford Oakes stories: SAVING THE QUEEN and STAINED GLASS. I consider the Oakes books a worthy successor to Ian Fleming's James Bond stories.
Sean
Sean,
OK but first I have multiple volumes of Dornford Yates to read or reread.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I have no objections to that! Dornford Yates now joins those writers in the back of my mind that I should read.
Sean
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