XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.books.cs-lewis, mn.humor   
   From: tsbrueni@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   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.   
      
   I've noticed that the Left Behind series has a prequel series (saying what   
   happened   
   BEFORE the Rapture), and I've seen all three prequel Star Wars movies.   
      
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