01. Local Custom
02. Scout's Progress
03. Mouse and Dragon
04. Conflict of Honors
05. Agent of Change
06. Carpe Diem
07. Plan B
08. I Dare
09. Crystal Soldier
10. Crystal Dragon
11. Balance of Trade
12. Trade Secret
13. Fair Trade
14. Fledgling
15. Saltation
16. Ghost Ship
17. Necessity’s Child
18. Dragon Ship
19. Dragon in Exile
20. Alliance of Equals
21. The Gathering Edge
22. Neogenesis
23. Accepting the Lance
24. Trader’s Leap
25. Salvage Right
26. Ribbon Dance
27. A Liaden Constellation Vol 1
28. A Liaden Constellation Vol 2
29. A Liaden Constellation Vol 3
30. A Liaden Constellation Vol 4.

A reading order for #TheLiadenUniverse, because I want to recommend and endorese the whole series.

one note I: Local Custom might be hard as a first read. Scout's Progress might be easier.

This is not the universe in full chronological order, but this groups the books into some internal arcs that i feel generate appropriate context for the universe as a whole.

It's my personal Machete order, and the order I'm using to introduce @mawr to the series by audio book, since I've been through every book multiple times. It's my most frequent read and comfort series. And I've been reading it again.

Because Sharon Lee's husband, Steve Miller, passed away right around the time I got my hands on the latest eARC.

if you find you got sucked into them, this is also a good order for re-reading to reinforce and create new context for even more enjoyment.

Agent of Change was the first published of the series, in 1985.

I first remember reading Scout's Progress around 2002-2003. I read just Scout's Progress multiple times. It took me until 2006-7 to start reading the others. By then, ebooks were a "thing" and I got my first kindle. I've always had the whole Universe in my inventory for the last decade.

Look:

-It doesn't matter that the Things only take a few minutes
-It doesn't matter that the Things have been put off for months
-It doesn't matter that the
Things need to be done so I stop feeling bad about not doing the Things

I. Am. Tired. Of. Doing. Things. There are always MORE Things to do. And doing Things does not reduce the number of Things to be done.

Okay, I have complained about having to do Things. Now time for more Things.

The Internet was better when it was just us being about what we were interested in, not companies demanding to sell us what we were interested in.

Bring.
Back.
Geocities.

Its been *checks phone* 7 months, 2 days since T-Day.

My dentures still aren't always comfortable.

I don't know enough of the discourse around the implications of Essence and how cyberware has a somehow "demeaning" or "diminishing" effect to an individuals existence or experience. (they fixed the ones that are gender related so that's not a thing anymore, tho yes it /was/ in the past, noted), but I have to acknowledge that I can kind of... empathize... sometimes with that viewpoint. The modularity of my mouth has yet to become routine.

I don't like that I haven't gotten used to them yet. I don't know if I'll ever like them. They are still a _disruption_ to my routine rather than the _new_ routine they need to be because denture life is my life for the current indefinity.

And they hurt. They just.. They just hurt. The process of fixodenting eats up so much of my morning. i have to balance getting just enough so i have a good enough hold to EAT throughout the day, but not so much that the hold will degrade evenly by the end of day so that I can remove them without pain, or feeling like I'm leaving the residue behind on my tissues. Or taking chunks out of my tissues. Still can't figure out which feels worse.

maybe global warming will take me out before zinc cancer does.

At least they look nice. I haven't wanted to _look_ at my own smile for years.

Happy Uptime Day, bot!
Happy Uptime Day, bot!
You've been online for so long!
Keep going til you stop!

39 Earth years of continuous operation.

Ugh~

"You can't cut back funding. You will regret this. "

C'mon people. We learned this lesson a long time ago. Yes, you have to fund things that work. But we've figured that out too. And we figured out how to figure things out. It takes. All of us.