[ SECRET POST #3715 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3715 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[feotakahari]

Who the hell numbers a book as 0.25 in the series? Who the hell reads a book that's been numbered as 0.25 in the series?

[(Anonymous)]

maybe short stories or... what's that thing in Japan? Tankobon?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe its an interquel? I used to follow a well known author of Vampire fiction and after her wrapped the his main series up for the third time (he kept adding on sequel series until he torched the entire franchise) he then came back a few years later and started writing additional books and stories in the gaps.

[randomdrops]

I've seen this when people offer free books on kindle etc. It's the "first book in the series!" but really it's like a short story intro or something.

Though I know nothing of the particular series in the secret, so who knows.

[(Anonymous)]

This is really common! The books released are 1, 2, 3 etc. but the author releases short stories or sideline plots as cheap or free ebooks to keep people interested between major releases. The numbering just refers to where it fits in canon.

[(Anonymous)]

Usually I see it done when an author has a series, then goes back and writes a short story or novella. It's not a whole novel length work, so they don't want to call it "#3 in the Deadly Muffin Assassin series", so they'll call it, 2.5 or something. .25 suggests to me that it's a prequel to the first novel, and that there's more than one prequel, so...

[(Anonymous)]

The Expanse series does novellas as X.5 in between the main novels - you don't need to read them to follow the main action plot but they fill in other little corners of the world, what side characters were doing in between major developments, etc. And there's a "0.1" short story about the invention of the kind of space travel they use set like a century before the series. I actually really like the decimal numbering for ancillary materials because it helps me keep the timeline straight!