series, whether of novels, short stories or both
individual novels
individual short stories
I regard a collection not as a literary unit or a volume in its own right but only as an easier way to read short stories than having to track them down in magazines or anthologies. I therefore dislike it when a story appears in more than one collection or when a series story appears in a non-series collection. However, the previous post was an attempt to consider Poul Anderson collections on their own terms. Contemplating that list, we notice that TOR becomes prominent as a publisher and that series stories cease to appear in non-series collections.
Beyond The Beyond contains only five stories of which three belong to two series. There are more such overlaps than I want to discuss here. In a Poul Anderson Complete Works, several volumes with new titles, maybe just Short Stories, Volumes I-etc, would have to collect all the independent short stories with no overlaps.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Collections of short stories, if an author is popular enough, makes sense. Saves people the bother of hunting for the magazines they were first pub. in.
I don't mind too much if series stories get scattered among many collections. Again, a popular enough author should eventually have his series stories getting collected.
Ad astra! Sean
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