# Sidequels

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidequels/694489>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 31, 2014, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidequels/694489 "2014-07-31T14:43:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidequels/694489/41 "2014-08-04T20:02:45Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> John Scalzi’s _Zoe’s Tale_ is a first-person retelling of his earlier sf novel _The Last Colony_ from the perspective of a teenage girl, adoptive daughter of the hero of _TLC_. Both are very good books IMHO and mesh well.

At least two of Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan books occur at the same time (Cetaganda and Ethan of Athos), and if you’ve read all of them, you see brief references between them (someone in Cetaganda gets a brief report of the current state of affairs during Ethan).

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**Author:** ![danhanegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb9ed0/32.png) [@danhanegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danhanegan)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sidequels/694489/42 "2014-08-04T20:41:29Z")

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> [@Quimby](#):
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> You’re welcome. I actually learned that a newer book in the series came out in 2007. I had no idea.

I had no idea either! Now I HAVE to hunt it down. And incidentally the wikipedia article on this series has a cool family tree graphic I wish had been printed in the books I have read.

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