Monday 23 June 2014

Flandry Against The Merseians

I have started to get an overall picture of Dominic Flandry's lifelong struggle against the Merseians and their clients. We see him in action against:

Merseians on Starkad
Merseians, including Tachwyr, on Merseia
Merseians in space
Merseians on Talwin
A'u on Conjumar
Merseians and Aycharaych on Alfzar
A'u on Nyanza
Merseians and Aycharaych in the Crystal Moon
Merseians and Aycharaych on an unborn planet
Merseians (hidden) on Altai
Tachwyr and Aycharaych on Talwin
Aycharaych on Chereion
a Merseian sleeper on Sphinx

The order of this list reflects my slight revision of the Chronology. A'u appears in only one story but there are two encounters with him. Aycharaych appears in four works but the first of these does not feature Flandry who encounters Aycharaych five times in three works. Flandry's opposite number among the Merseians, Tachwyr, appears in three novels but encounters Flandry in only two.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Hi, Paul!

Just a tiny correction and a query here. Sir Dominic met Aycharaych and the Merseian ambassador to the Empire at the CRYSTAL Moon (not the "Coral" Moon). I think you confused the Crystal Moon owned by the Merseians with the Coral Palace used by the Terran Emperors.

My query is this, where is there mention of there being a Merseian sleeper on the planet Sphinx? Perhaps you had in mind Olaf Magnusson, who was a long term, deep cover agent for Merseia.

Sean

Paul Shackley said...

Sean,
Thanks. You have pointed out my confusion of Coral and Crystal before. I thought I had got it right this time!
I meant that Flandry met Magnusson on Sphinx, not that the Merseians had a sleeper planted on Sphinx.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Hi, Paul!

There's always something which will confuse most of us! (Smiles)

I thought so, you were thinking of how Flandry met Magnusson on Sphinx.

Sean