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   From: john-dean@fraglineone.net   
      
   JF wrote:   
   > X-No-Archive: yes   
   > In message , Steve Hayes   
   >  writes   
   >   
   >> Lewis had been dead two years by then, but his literary heirs had   
   >> not had time to mess with the publication order of the books.   
   >   
   > Wrong. Doug Grisolm, or whatever is name is -- it's of little   
   > consequence -- never messed with publication order. He didn't have a   
   > Tardis wardroobe to go back into the past and reset the presses.   
   >   
   > All this nonsense has happened before. C S Forester was so surprised   
   > by the unexpected success of a novel about a naval captain, that he   
   > did a retro and wrote novels about the sea captain's adventures as a   
   > midshipman, and then a lieutenant. When the first boxed set was   
   > released in his lifetime, they were numbered in chronological order   
   > -- that is: intended reading order.   
      
   CSF actually wrote 5 of the novels (taking Hornblower from Post-Captain on   
   the Lydia to the Peerage in Lord Hornblower) in chronological order over   
   nearly 10 years before starting on the prequels. So the Hornblower series   
   was already a considerable success before he thought of the retro.   
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