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grosberg.michael@gmail.com (Michael Grosberg) wrote:

> This is from experience - I made the mistake of not reading the short
> stories (well, they were not yet collected in book form then) before I
> went on to Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap and I'm pretty certain my
> enjoyment of them was hampered.

My order of reading was the same as yours, but I doubt that my enjoyment 
was spoiled. Indeed, one of the stories in _Galactic North_ is liable to 
overturns the reader's understanding of several crucial plot elements of 
RS,RA, and AG, which caused me to re-read and re-enjoy them differently. 

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