You might like North Woods by Daniel Mason, which I read recently: https://www.amazon.co.uk/North-Woods-Daniel-Mason/dp/0593597036 . It's presented and sold as a novel, but in practice is a series of short stories each with its own protagonist, much like Cloud Atlas. The connecting factor is that all of the characters lived in the same house at different times, or had the house significantly affect their lives in some way. And there is an overall arc - which is almost inevitable, as today is created by the events of the past.
It seems to me that there's a difference between the Foundation books, which can somewhat plausibly be read as a series of novels, and I, Robot, which really can't be read as a novel. I'm not sure what it is that makes this so.
Thanks for this. I hadn't read any George O. Smith, so that was a treat. (His whole collection of short stories was ~$3 on my kindle.) The stories remind me most of Charles Sheffield's McAndrew tales. Which got me thinking of other short stories in the same universe/ setting. Clarke's, "Tales of the White Hart." I'm not sure that these were written/ published separately. Which lead me to think of "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" Just a wonderful series, especially if you are a fan of puns. And then you have all the Heinlein shorts in his future history timeline. And one can not leave out Niven and his tales of known space, how can one not like Louis Wu. But when I think of my favorite Sci Fi Short story author, Theodore Sturgeon, alas I can think of no arcing stories. Unless they were all in the same universe which is our own?
You might like North Woods by Daniel Mason, which I read recently: https://www.amazon.co.uk/North-Woods-Daniel-Mason/dp/0593597036 . It's presented and sold as a novel, but in practice is a series of short stories each with its own protagonist, much like Cloud Atlas. The connecting factor is that all of the characters lived in the same house at different times, or had the house significantly affect their lives in some way. And there is an overall arc - which is almost inevitable, as today is created by the events of the past.
It seems to me that there's a difference between the Foundation books, which can somewhat plausibly be read as a series of novels, and I, Robot, which really can't be read as a novel. I'm not sure what it is that makes this so.
Thanks for this. I hadn't read any George O. Smith, so that was a treat. (His whole collection of short stories was ~$3 on my kindle.) The stories remind me most of Charles Sheffield's McAndrew tales. Which got me thinking of other short stories in the same universe/ setting. Clarke's, "Tales of the White Hart." I'm not sure that these were written/ published separately. Which lead me to think of "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon" Just a wonderful series, especially if you are a fan of puns. And then you have all the Heinlein shorts in his future history timeline. And one can not leave out Niven and his tales of known space, how can one not like Louis Wu. But when I think of my favorite Sci Fi Short story author, Theodore Sturgeon, alas I can think of no arcing stories. Unless they were all in the same universe which is our own?
Thanks again.