Feb-25-2017, 11:06 AM (UTC)
I finally read all the four volumes I have last year, and I can honestly recommend them. 
There's a few odd stories that differed a bit too much stylistically/were so far removed from the other stories they could have been set in an entirely different world, but those are a clear minority. The further you read, the more you encounter tiny connections, which I thought was a lot of fun! There are also two or three major story lines that come together towards the end (the Lindholm/Brust collaboration being one of them). The cast of characters is also (maybe surprisingly for the original publication date?) quite diverse.
The original series has now also been published as a (reorganised and edited) series of ebooks. The wiki page is a good starting point for info on the publication, and there's quite a bit of interesting stuff about the way this sort of collaboration worked on Shetterly's Liavek blog.
There's a few odd stories that differed a bit too much stylistically/were so far removed from the other stories they could have been set in an entirely different world, but those are a clear minority. The further you read, the more you encounter tiny connections, which I thought was a lot of fun! There are also two or three major story lines that come together towards the end (the Lindholm/Brust collaboration being one of them). The cast of characters is also (maybe surprisingly for the original publication date?) quite diverse. The original series has now also been published as a (reorganised and edited) series of ebooks. The wiki page is a good starting point for info on the publication, and there's quite a bit of interesting stuff about the way this sort of collaboration worked on Shetterly's Liavek blog.
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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