OMG, Amazon shows a different book order from GoodReads. Very strange. I bought "Falling Free (Vorkosidan Book One)" from Amazon. Which is "the true" book one?

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Emma As non of the protagonist or antagonists of the series are preset in Falling Free, I would not consider it a good first book to start the series.

Falling Free however plays in the same universe. It can be read as a separate novel at any time you want.

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Deborah Jones Lois McMaster Bujold suggests that you read these in internal chronological order (the order in which the events happened in the fictional timeline of the books), and I agree. This is different from the order they were written in, which is how Amazon orders them. The author gives you information in the back of each of the Kindle editions about the internal chronological order. That said, 'Falling Free' happens in the same universe a long time before the rest of the events of the saga so is technically first, but only relates indirectly to the rest of the saga. I began with 'Shards of Honor' and I would recommend beginning either with that or with 'The Warrior's Apprentice.'

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