No specific reason to discuss the connections other than fun speculation. I suspect CJ and Jane have plenty to do without taking this on, although a fun short piece or two would be very entertaining.
 
That said .... In Foreigner, the Phoenix accident is a "point error". Perhaps a singularity of some sort. We can infer that gates are related to singularities, or at least that singularities can effect them;  Changeling being a "key" of sorts to close gates. 

The original Phoenix story was that they were lost, couldn't find even references such as quasars (this could be taken as going to a different universe, or to a much different time). That plot background seems to have gone by the wayside in more recent books. I don't mind that sort of continuity break if it serves the storyline well. Maybe somebody changed the timeline.   /runs/
 

joekc6nlx wrote:

I was thinking in a more morbid line of thought, though.  Perhaps CJC wants to wrap everything up and not leave a bunch of things hanging as Frank Herbert did with Dune, unpublished books, notes left for possible books, etc.  Of course, Frank had personal issues that prevented him from continuing with the series, and those issues were very understandable, especially losing Beverly.

Not morbid, just realistic, she is just about 80 after all. Teaming with Jane is probably lengthening her writing career. That's good. Alliance Rising "felt like" a CJ book, although not a major one. The next Foreigner book, done by both of them, is one I'm looking forward to more than usual. I hope Jane gets a POV character of her own. 
 

I'm guessing that some interaction between the ateva and A/U characters is wanted by some readers?  This may be heresy, but I am kinda tired of the Atevi in general and want some other stories.  I'm glad of the new A/U novels that have just been written, personally.

Surtac wrote:

I do like the thought experiment notion of the qual gates being used as a possible solution to perhaps span parallel universe branes, but I don't want to actually see it employed just to service various fanfic scenarios.

But that's just my opinion.  I could be wrong.
 

I agree. I like it as an interesting proposition. But I'm quite satisfied to leave them as entirely separate universes and stories.
That said, I do remember the jolt of excitement in - Cyteen was it? - where there's mention of Chanur. Yes Cyteen, I actually found Surtac's references on tapatalk!

"Sol had explored the other side of space and got its fingers burned dangerously. Eetees with a complex culture and an isolationist sentiment."
and
"the discovery of a well-developed alien region on the far side of Sol. Sol, sternly rebuffed by the alien Compact, turned back toward human space"

HRHSpence wrote:

I'm guessing that some interaction between the ateva and A/U characters is wanted by some readers?  This may be heresy, but I am kinda tired of the Atevi in general and want some other stories.  I'm glad of the new A/U novels that have just been written, personally.

I'm wondering how poor Vanye would react to space travel, azi, and the various other worlds of the A/U stories......