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DrNefario
Posted 2014-02-02 5:43 AM (#6309 - in reply to #5982)
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Location: UK		Is Ilium part of a series? I hadn't realised that. It's the only one I haven't read in that list.

My thinking on what counts as a series is that knowledge of he previous book is important for reading the next book. It doesn't matter if the first book was originally a stand-alone which has had sequels bolted on later. I guess that would technically mean you could count The Hobbit as book one of The Lord of the Rings, if you wanted. I don't think that's unreasonable. The kind of thing I wanted to exclude was something like Kim Stanley Robinson's Three Californias trilogy, where the books are really unrelated and can be read in any order.

So, yes, Ender's Game would be fine.

There are quite a few that I didn't love in your list - Boneshaker, Feed, Leviathan Wakes, Old Man's War - but for the most part they are easy to read, they just felt a bit unsatisfying to me when I reached the end, and all of them have plenty of fans, so what do I know? I don't know which one I'd choose to leave out.

Edited by DrNefario 2014-02-02 5:45 AM

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