Hello.
As I'm sure you all know, the 1632/Ring-of-Fire branch of the Assiti Shards stories has grown into an impressively massive collection of novels and anthologies. For that reason, many readers wish to know the order in which the various books should be read. To help them, Eric Flint has posted such a reading order on hie official home page at
http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/1632-series-reading-order/
In his latest update, January 21, 2016, he also included a flowchart to illustrate his recommended reading order.
While I liked the flowchart, I thought it didn't show the various story threads very well. So I decided to try to do better.
I created a flowchart of my own design, and posted a link to it in a reply in Eric's Reading Order thread. Eric said he liked it, and suggested a way to improve it. I took his advice and posted a link to the updated flowchart.
The flowchart shows the approximate chronological relationships of all the books, as well as which books are sequels of which other books. It includes all the novels and anthologies published by Baen to date, (except the e-zine volumes of Grantville Gazette) as well as a few that haven't been released yet. It also includes the fiction books published by Ring of Fire Press. There are also explanatory notes.
The flowchart can be downloaded at this address:
https://app.box.com/s/0cgao2izduj2ka4oljcz4uwg7b66rfzs
I hope all of you will find it helpful. Feel free to use it as you will, except, if you decide to publish it in some website, please publish it as is.
Mike
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Edited on 2016-08-09 to add the following:
I have improved the flowchart, making it much more compact, and fixing an inconsistency. I recommend that this version be used, as it is more accurate (and prettier, in my opinion).
The updated flowchart can be downloaded here:
https://app.box.com/s/gmy9d9sn54lqm8wd4plbecmjfxgr3l98
Also, the way I reorganized the flowchart allowed me to create a lower-resolution version that is still readable (1580 pixels wide, versus 2400 for the original). This version can be downloaded at:
https://app.box.com/s/29jukqldbf5ynw1enj4lg6b3xmppispg
This should be the last version I develop until after the release of 1636: Mission to the Mughals in April, 2017.
Mike
