This series gives the original, often more explicit, versions of some of the Tris/Alex stories that Nancy Arena and Pam Rose rewrote into the novel, For All the Gods Departed. These were circulated during the late 1980s as paper manuscripts, among fans of Nancy and Pam's work who enjoyed their take on Led Zepplin as Paradox. (This was concurrent with the better-known "circuit" of Professionals manuscript stories, to which Pam Rose also contributed.)
The Tris/Alex stories may have been written at first as stand-alones, but it's evident early in the series that they are segments of a larger narrative about Tris and Alex and the band Paradox. FATGD includes much of this material as background within its extension of Paradox's storyline that starts after the events covered by the story series.
