Monday, 12 September 2022

Three Dominic Flandry Cameos

As we know, Dominic Flandry appears in:

the Young Flandry Trilogy (three novels);
the Captain Flandry series (two collections and one novel);
one Admiral Flandry novel;
one novel about Flandry's daughter with three cameo appearances by Admiral Flandry.

If we add one non-Flandry volume set during Flandry's lifetime and one post-Flandry/ post-Imperial volume, then we complete the list of ten Technic History volumes after The Earth Book Of Stormgate which completes the Polesotechnic League history and links the League and Empire periods.

The three cameo appearances show Flandry in conversation respectively with:

Miriam Abrams-Flandry;
the rebel leader, Admiral Olaf Magnusson;
Flandry's daughter, Diana Crowfeather, and her companions.

Thus, Flandry is no longer in action but comments on the course of events. We should reread the cameos for some insight into Flandry's character in this later stage of his life.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul !

I have speculated Technic antisenescence enabled people to live to about age 100-10. Since I believe Flandry to be aged 67 in THE GAME OF EMPIRE, what happened to him during the next 30 to 40 years?

Ad astra! Sean