Thanks to our longtime readers and fans we’re finishing up the 25th Anniversary Year of the Liaden Universe® and what a grand year we’ve had. We’ve met and talked with many of you at conventions, the BEA, and on our Trade Secret book tour. Jethri’s adventures, like Theo’s, have brought round lots of commentary, and Trade Secret hit the Bookscan bestseller list at Number 6 — a real accomplishment in these days of movie and TV-tie-in domination of the Science Fiction bestseller lists.
One thing we’ve been surprised by is how many of our readers tell us they’ve been with us (or our characters) since close to the beginning. To help us celebrate Trade Secret and our 25th year of Liaden publication please share with us your first Liaden experience — and how many titles you’ve read since then — and we’ll randomly select 5 lucky responders for a free Trade Secret audio book courtesy of Audible! We’ll be selecting winners based on replies received by midnight Friday,December 6 (our time in snowy Maine). You’ve got 5 shots — tell us how you got started in the Liaden Universe®!
Here’s the full complement of Liaden Universe® offerings from Audible!
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Love all the Liad books. I own a used book store and love getting people started on the series and then to talk to them about everything we mutually like about the stories and characters.
I am one of the lucky ones who have been reading and rereading your books for twenty-five years. I was a person who waited impatiently for Plan B but who made do with clapbooks until then. I believe I have all you Liaden items as well as ebooks that I bought of your non-Liaden items.
I discovered you when your books were first reprinted as mass market paperbacks. I've read everything since.
I started reading the Liaden Universe books by finding "Partners in Necessity" in a bookstore. Being a fan of Anne McCaffrey, her quote sold the book for me. After that, I purchased every book I could find in the Liaden Universe - then every book by either of the esteemed authors. I've never been disappointed.
Thanks for the ride.
and I haven't left the Liaden Universe since . . .
My first experience with a Liaden book, was seeing my friend online at the library. She held up a copy of a book with small people and big turtles on the cover. She said "its a great book but people don't read them because the covers are weird." I did read it. It was Agent of Change, the Del Rey edition. I read Carpe Diem and I think Plan B. But I could not find the rest of the books, so I put it aside for a few years.
Then, about 4 years ago, I was in a used bookstore, and I saw a copy of Conflict of Honors. I bought it and devoured it. Then I read every other Liaden book I could find until Trade Secrets. And I have gotten some friends interested as well.
I first read Agent of Change when I saw a review by Anne McCaffrey. She said that books about Korval were her "comfort reads". What better endorsement! I've never been sorry and have all of your books and chap books on my shelves.
My first Liaden experience was in a library, close to my sister's house in Sydney, where three paperback covers jumped off the rotating rack onto my head and wanted to go home with me. I read the blurbs on the back covers, and decided to let them. And I'm so glad I did. I subsequently decided that Lee & Miller would be the first authors I would try and buy exclusively via ebook, as I was wanting to travel light. Therefore the answer to 'How many have you read?' is ALL of them. Baen made it so easy! And I've bought several paperbacks too, they're handy for handing to people and saying 'Here, try this, and if you like it, keep it. If not, pass it on.'
I began my adventures in Liad with "Conflict of Honors", and I don't think I will ever stop!
My friend Jennifer (the same one that got me hooked on the Honor Harrington books a number of years before) gave me a copy of the Partners in Necessity omnibus saying "Wanted to give you another series to get hooked on." Since then, I'm pretty sure I've read everything in the Liaden Universe that is currently in print -- novels, short stories and splinters. A few years ago, I got my wife started on them, and the two of us have introduced multiple friends to the world of Miri, Val Con, Shan, Priscilla & Nova.
First Liaden Universe book I ever read was "Balance of Trade" from the Science Fiction Book Club. Read and collected all of them in print, plus chapbooks, plus an ebook, plus an audiobook - do they come in implantable chips yet? Go Jethri!
I was browsing the Science Fiction section at a small book store called Granny's Attic in Elmira, NY and found slightly battered copies of Agent of Change and Carpe Diem. Carpe Diem was new out in paperback at the time. If a book looks read, it is usually a good option to buy, so I did, read them, and got hooked. I kept watch and signed up on the website, and as they became available, I bought the combo books from your website. Then I bought them in digital form. I have everything you have written, including Sharon's mystery series.