Question for Kage Baker fans

[ellarien]

If I get the Company books up through The Graveyard Game for my eReader, how annoyed am I likely to be that the next two aren't available when I've finished those? (In other words, are there cliffhangers involved? Is The Life of the World to Come good enough to be worth tracking down as a used hardcopy?) For calibration, I read In the Garden of Iden a while back, when it was in the Tor.com giveaway, and enjoyed it but didn't feel compelled to rush out and collect the set in hardcopy.


I'm not sure which is worse; an ongoing series with no ending in sight, or a loosely-articulated series where the middle books (but not the early and recent ones) are unobtainable. (See also Margaret Frazer's Frevisse series.)

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The Company books are one of those series that form a huge jigsaw puzzle, with the central mystery left unsolved until the very, very end. They follow different people, but interweave. For instance, you may get very concerned by a person's fate, but not see them again for a couple of books.

Personally, I came in about the time The Graveyard Game (one of my favourites) was published, though started, as one should, with In the Garden of Iden. However, I sometimes waited a while before getting to the next book in the series, and I don't think that waiting for the last books will be too much of a problem.

[ellarien]

Thanks!