Here’s an alternative possible reading order, with short stories fitting in between chapters of novels, but the novels not otherwise overlapping or rearranged.

Draft Reading Order

• “Dragon Tide”
• “Necessary Evils”
• Crystal Soldier
• Crystal Dragon
• “Eleutherios”
• “Where the Goddess Sends”
• “A Spell for the Lost”
• “The Wine of Memory”
• Balance of Trade
• Trade Secret
• “Naratha’s Shadow”
• “The Space at Tinsori Light”
• “Sweet Waters”
• “Phoenix”
• “Pilot of Korval”
• “A Choice of Weapons”
• “The Beggar King”
• Local Custom
• Scout’s Progress
• Mouse and Dragon ch.1-36
• “Guaranteed Delivery”
• Mouse and Dragon ch.37-41
• “Veil of the Dancer”
• “Heirloom”
• “Intelligent Design”
• “A Matter of Dreams”
• “Moonphase”
• “Fighting Chance”
• “To Cut an Edge”
• “Shadow Partner”
• “A Day at the Races”
• “Certain Symmetry”
• “This House”
• Conflict of Honors
• “Changeling”
• Agent of Change
• Carpe Diem ch.2-34
• “Quiet Knives”
• Carpe Diem ch.35-71
• Fledgling
• Plan B ch.1-3
• “Breath’s Duty”
• Plan B ch.4-35
• I Dare ch.1-12
• “Daughter of Dragons”
• “Persistence”
• I Dare ch.13-57
• “Misfits”
• I Dare ch.58
• Saltation
• “Landed Alien”
• Ghost Ship ch.1-5
• “Moon on the Hills”
• Ghost Ship ch.6-12
• “Hidden Resources”
• “Kin Ties”
• Ghost Ship ch.13-41
• “Prodigal Son”
• Ghost Ship ch.42-44
• Necessity’s Child
• Dragon Ship
• “Skyblaze”

Again, not a final order, offered as something to react to. What are your thoughts?