Where's the best place to start

Vertigo said:
Yes I did find I was left scratching my head a little on that topic after Gridlinked and it was much clearer after Prador Moon.
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Another question would be, how did the rest of the war go, I don't believe that Prador's would only send a couple of dreadnoughts, thinking they need only two to conquer Polity.
 
I started with Gridlinked then read Prador Moon and Shadow of a Scorpion so I could read things chronologically, but now I'm reading Line of Polity and it's made several references (Jain tech, The Makers, the character Mika) that I don't recognize. Are they things I should have read in other works that I missed or are they things that will be fleshed out in later?
 
Jain tech makes it's first appearance in Line Of Polity and is explained a little during the book, though not fully as it is not fully understood by humans. The Maker was the enemy of the Dragon that appeared in Gridlinked and helped Cormac. Mika (as I recall) was one of the team working with Cormac in Gridlinked along with Gant, Thorn and the others.

Incidentally that is exactly the same order I have read those three in and I'm actually only half way through LOP.
 
OK, i've finally bought a couple of his books. I got the Skinner and Brass Man.
 
Here's where they come in the various series:

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I started off with Brass Man (recommended to me by another member of the writers group I go to), and promptly went through all the rest of the books in the Cormac and Spatterjay series in the space of a month (well, almost - Line War hadn't come out at that time).
Brass Man seems to be a good place to start - another member of the writers group started at the same point.
 
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