Ian Wallace

Anyone read the novels of Ian Wallace? Interstellar far-future espionage with more than a few winks to our friend from Virginia...

I recently bought a paperback of one of his books: A Voyage to Dari (Croyd Spacetime Maneuvres, Book 4).

I bought it by mistake, though, thinking it was Ian Watson. Brain glitch in the bookstore.

Does it make any sense to read the fourth book in this series before any others?

Here he discusses Cabell's influence on him: https://sites.google.com/site/ianwallacescifi/Home/anecdotes
See also: https://sites.google.com/site/ianwallacescifi/Home/who-is-ian-wallace

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This is great-- thank you!

I think Wallace's book can be read, like Cabell's Biography, in any order, though I'd imagine he had a preferred sequence too (and I think there is a chronology online sometime).

There seems to be a difference of opinion as to their order. IMDB and Wikipedia differ. IMDB gives a straight nine volume Croyd series, while Wiki distributes those 9 among three different series. Anyway, I'm ordering a copy of plain old Croyd which seems to be the first. But then I have to find the tme to read it.

I just finished Croyd, and am about to start Dr. Orpheus. I think that's the proper order in the "Croyd Spacetime Maneuvers" series. This next one has at least one epigraph from Beyond Life in it, upon an initial page-through.

I'm enjoying his style so far. He can be a bit sloppy, but there's a lot of pure energy behind his plot and characters, so it all ends up being infectious and charming.

I just got a copy of Croyd. Alas, it reeks of some hideous perfume. I will let it air out for a year before I give it a try.

He sounds intriguing as a person and author. I'll try to keep an eye out, but somehow Ian Wallace doesn't stick in the brainpan.