Timeline for When are reading-order questions on topic?
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| Feb 22, 2017 at 23:19 | comment | added | Martin Ender | @KevinTroy this can be the case for any of those questions. In some cases the information will already be readily available on the internet, but in others it might not be the case and it might be hard or impossible to find a resource that has already compiled all the available information. Especially if it's not concerning an author as important and well-studied as Jane Austen. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 23:17 | comment | added | Kevin Troy Staff | I should have said "Google." I just checked the Wikipedia page for Jane Austen -- a good example of an author whose publication vs writing order is quite different. The Wiki contains the information, but that info is laid out much more concisely on an austen.com page that was the top result for the Google search "jane austen order." So yeah, I still think that (in most cases) questions about writing order won't show much effort on the asker's part. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 22:21 | comment | added | Martin Ender | @KevinTroy could it? Just to be clear, the order they were written in is not necessarily the order they were published in. I'm referring specifically to cases where these two don't match up and the writing order is often not common knowledge (and may even be ambiguous when authors work on multiple works in parallel). | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 22:17 | comment | added | Kevin Troy Staff | I agree overall, but "what order were X's novels written in" is a lazy question that could be answered by visiting Wikipedia. | |
| Feb 22, 2017 at 13:59 | history | answered | Martin Ender | CC BY-SA 3.0 |