Moon Etherium may not end in literal "uncertain position" but it feels like the first half of its sequel - there's all this unresolved stuff still out there.
The Etherium, Demon, and Silver Scales series are the books of yours that most grabbed me, and they feel the most like full novels - if you read the whole series. So I suppose they play a large part of your oeuvre in my mind.
And you can think of it this way - do the sequels of those series really stand alone? Maybe in the Etherium one, I suppose, which is your point. I can't remember where the break is between Sun and Moon. I know most of Sun is these deception romances, but I thought there was Moon wrap-up stuff in there too.
But if you add the books in those series together, that's 7 books, which is half the 13 total.
PS: A Rational Arrangement is your other work that comes to mind that is a full standalone novel. (Of course Further Arrangements depends entirely on it). The others are standalones but feel kinda lightweight, for one reason or another.
Bujold's issue in the Penric series is that she committed to making them all novellas, and that central series of 3 you complain about is really one full novel, sort of. Except it's more like a series of adventures than a full novel, which is how she could make those breaks.
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Date: 2022-06-25 03:14 pm (UTC)The Etherium, Demon, and Silver Scales series are the books of yours that most grabbed me, and they feel the most like full novels - if you read the whole series. So I suppose they play a large part of your oeuvre in my mind.
And you can think of it this way - do the sequels of those series really stand alone? Maybe in the Etherium one, I suppose, which is your point. I can't remember where the break is between Sun and Moon. I know most of Sun is these deception romances, but I thought there was Moon wrap-up stuff in there too.
But if you add the books in those series together, that's 7 books, which is half the 13 total.
PS: A Rational Arrangement is your other work that comes to mind that is a full standalone novel. (Of course Further Arrangements depends entirely on it). The others are standalones but feel kinda lightweight, for one reason or another.
Bujold's issue in the Penric series is that she committed to making them all novellas, and that central series of 3 you complain about is really one full novel, sort of. Except it's more like a series of adventures than a full novel, which is how she could make those breaks.