Talk:Sarna Challenge 1: Dark Age Era Reading
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Starter Discussion
How should this project be presented? List? Table? Sortable? What are the other options?--Revanche (talk|contribs) 11:18, 5 June 2021 (EDT)
Required List
Dark Age plot
- A Call to Arms - first decent fiction about the Republic
- Flight of the Falcon - start of the Clan Jade Falcon plotline
- Target of Opportunity - start of the Tucker Harwell plotline
- Sword of Sedition - death of Victor Steiner-Davion and introduction of a lot of major characters
- Surrender Your Dreams - introduction of the Fidelis
- Masters of War - start of the Clan Wolf plotline
- A Rending of Falcons - Jade Falcon plotline
- A Bonfire of Worlds - ties together all the major plotlines
ilClan preamble
- Rock of the Republic - advances all the essential plotlines
- Children of Kerensky - penultimate novel
- Hour of the Wolf - capstone novel. Crowning of the ilClan
My take on the minimal required reading to understand Hour of the Wolf. It's very Clan heavy, but most of the Great House fiction is ultimately a sideshow. --Ebakunin (talk|contribs) 12:57, 6 June 2021 (EDT)
- My take on this can be found here --Deadfire (talk) 13:30, 6 June 2021 (EDT)
- I am thinking that these two lists help us define (as a starting point) each of the products as one of three ratings:
- Must read: any title that appears on both of your lists
- Optional: any title that appears on only one of your lists (unless other can be persuaded to add it)
- Unnecessary: not on either list.
- Response? --Revanche (talk|contribs) 20:16, 6 June 2021 (EDT)
- I am thinking that these two lists help us define (as a starting point) each of the products as one of three ratings:
- Ok, I've created the list by merging your two lists. I've also considered that the CGL Recommended Reading List is already outdated (and there is no guarantee CGL will update it), so I'm expanding the challenge to include all Dark Age products, not just the ones on their list. However, your lists included three products that I (a non-novel reader) don't think belong on it.
- * Forever Faithful: crosses over the Dark age, but is considered a Clan Invasion era novel
- * Icons of War: a Jihad era novella
- * Hour of the Wolf: an ilClan era novel
- Why should these three be considered essential for understanding the Dark Age?--Revanche (talk|contribs) 09:47, 7 June 2021 (EDT)