Quote:She turns them out fairly regularly, but the internal chronological order of the ones on my shelf runs:
never heard of this Saga or her guess I'm going to be doing some searching and hitting book stores in the next week or so.
Skyfall
The Last Hawk
Primary Inversion
The Radiant Seas
The Quantum Rose
Spherical Harmonic
The Moon's Shadow
Catch the Lightning
However, all of them, except for Skyfall, tend to overlap considerably in timeframe - TRS is a direct sequel to PI, and SH picks up roughly where TRS leaves off... But SH overlaps almost completely with TMS, TQR starts about halfway through TRS and finishes... I'm honestly not sure, but I think a bit after SH... while TLH jumps into deep left field before any of the others even start and only connects back into the main line around the end of SH/TMS (see why I'm confused? Lot of different books hitting a lot of different places at that point) and CtL starts in a completely different universe and seems to end by resolving... well, one of the primary driving elements of the arc plot.
For tone, well, you could very easily think of it as space opera written by and for romance novel fans - except that, the lady in question is, in her day job, apparently a Known Name in the real world's research physics establishment. So, if you're someone who thinks that The Authority is all that, or actually enjoys Gibson, you might not care overly for her stuff - OTOH, if, out of Sailor Moon, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and Planetes, you like at least one without actively despising any of the others, I'd definitely reccomend looking into it.
FWIW, BTW, the company selling the Japanese translations of her books compared them to an American answer to Crest of the Stars, which I'd say wasn't all that out of line.
Referenceable at her Wikipedia article and homepage. (the Japanese edition subpage is here.)
Ja, -n
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