Reply #16: You'll find even more of that.

[lazarus]

Used to be a raging debate as to whether one should read them in chronological or published order.

Brust said that he wrote "Dragon" with people who prefer the chronological order in mind. As he puts it:

"I have a lot of sympathy with people who want to read the books in chronological order, so I wrote this one to help them out: it falls before and after Yendi. Heh heh heh."

No more debate. It's publication order.

One more warning: DO NOT read the back of Orca or any book after it before you've read it. There's a huge spoiler in Orca that you don't want to have spoiled, trust me. And the idiots who do blurbs spoiled it on the back of one of the books, I just can't remember which, and my books are way over there, and my knees hurt.