I happened to notice, the other day, that the five books in Mary Norton’s “Borrowers” series, when arranged in series order, also happen to be in alphabetic order:
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[li]The Borrowers[/li][li]The Borrowers Afield[/li][li]The Borrowers Afloat[/li][li]The Borrowers Aloft[/li][li]The Borrowers Avenged[/li][/ol]
Can anyone think of any other series like this?
For the sake of eliminating the too-obvious, I’d better add the following rules:
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[li]At least 4 titles in the series[/li][li]No series like Sue Grafton’s “Alphabet” series (“A” is for Alibi; “B” is for Burglar; etc.), where the titles deliberately start with successive letters of the alphabet.[/li][/ul]
No need to restrict this strictly to book series, by the way…though it’s hard to think what other kinds of series this might apply to. (Runs of TV episodes?)
Jason Bourne’s movie series started like this, with The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum, but part 4 was The Bourne Legacy, which screwed up the way I wanted to shelve it at my job at Blockbuster, the jerks.
The radio series Cabin Pressure had episodes named after the destinations the plane was flying to that week. These were the episodes (over 3 series)
Abu Dhabi
Boston
Cremona
Douz
Edinburgh
Fitton
Helsinki
Gdansk
Ipswich
Johannesburg
Kuala Lumpur
Limerick
Molokai (Christmas special)
Qikiqtarjuarq
Paris
Newcastle
Ottery St. Mary
Rotterdam
St. Petersburg
Timbuktu
Uskerty
Vaduz
Wokingham
Xinzhou
Yverdon-les-Bains
There was great anticipation for the final-ever special episode that would close the program and complete the story. Where would it be?
Turned out to be Zurich.
(Newcastle was out of order because one of the stars (Benedict Cumberbatch) contracted laryngitis and the episode had to be re-recorded - obviously it was planned to be in the correct order).
As an aside - one of the funniest radio shows ever.
By the way, folks, just reminding people of the rule set out in the OP:
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[li]No series like Sue Grafton’s “Alphabet” series (“A” is for Alibi; “B” is for Burglar; etc.), where the titles deliberately start with successive letters of the alphabet.[/li][/QUOTE]
Was it set in an alternate universe? Because some of the places on your list don’t have airports. (And the IIRC the nearest airport to Vaduz is Zurich, so the final destination must have been a big letdown to listeners who were hoping the plane would go somewhere new.)
In music, here is death metal band Morbid Angel’s discography:
1989 - Altars of Madness
1991 - Blessed Are the Sick
1993 - Covenant
1995 - Domination
1996 - Entangled in Chaos (live album)
1998 - Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
2000 - Gateways to Annihilation
2003 - Heretic
2011 - Illud Divinum Insanus
2015 - Juvenilia (live album)
2017 - Kingdoms Disdained
Unfortunately, they’ve also released a compilation of demos called Abominations of Desolation which makes my brain bleed – they really should have started that one with a Z or at least a number!
That was the least of their problems. Or the greatest of their opportunities, depending on how you look at it. When the flight crew are debating how to fit 100 otters in their Lockheed McDonnell 312 what’s a little airport confusion thrown into the mix.
