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I fear I may have outsmarted myself....
...rather like Miles as I come to think about it.
So a few months back I feel completly in love with Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan saga, and set about getting my hands on the whole set. Unfortunatly only a few of them have been published in England - and out of order, wtf's with that? Amazon to the rescue. But a lot of the earlier books are out of print - and they weren't turning up cheap on Amazon marketplace.
So I hit upon I cunning plan. I would buy these big compendium novels priced at the cost of a single novel, thereby getting my hands on the outdated books. I wouldn't even lose out on any money by ending up with two copies of the same book - buying a second hand Vor Game, for example, was more expensive then buying the compendium that included the Vor Game. There was also the added bonus that each of the compendiums contained a novella from a previous collection called 'Borders of Infinity, so I was really getting 2 1/3 books for the price of one!
But now I've found out that those novella's were set in a larger narrative involving dialogue between Miles and his longsuffering, sarcstic superior Simon Ilyan! Which has been published no where else! *Cries*
So a few months back I feel completly in love with Lois McMaster Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan saga, and set about getting my hands on the whole set. Unfortunatly only a few of them have been published in England - and out of order, wtf's with that? Amazon to the rescue. But a lot of the earlier books are out of print - and they weren't turning up cheap on Amazon marketplace.
So I hit upon I cunning plan. I would buy these big compendium novels priced at the cost of a single novel, thereby getting my hands on the outdated books. I wouldn't even lose out on any money by ending up with two copies of the same book - buying a second hand Vor Game, for example, was more expensive then buying the compendium that included the Vor Game. There was also the added bonus that each of the compendiums contained a novella from a previous collection called 'Borders of Infinity, so I was really getting 2 1/3 books for the price of one!
But now I've found out that those novella's were set in a larger narrative involving dialogue between Miles and his longsuffering, sarcstic superior Simon Ilyan! Which has been published no where else! *Cries*