Sunday 20 November 2022

Technic History Flandry Period Publication History

1951, Jan "Tiger by the Tail"
1951, May "Honorable Enemies"
1954, Summer "The Ambassadors of Flesh"/"The Warriors from Nowhere" (Megan, the Emperor's granddaughter)
1958, Mar "The Game of Glory" ("homosexual Emperor")
1959, Jun "A Handful of Stars"
1959 We Claim These Stars!/"Hunters of the Sky Cave"
1959, Dec " A Message in Secret"
1960, Dec - 1961, Jan "A Plague of Masters"
1961 Earthman, Go Home!
1961 Mayday Orbit
1966 Ensign Flandry (Emperor Georgios; Crown Prince Josip)
1967, Dec "Outpost of Empire"
1969 The Rebel Worlds (Emperor Josip)
1969, Oct "The White King's War"
1970 A Circus of Hells
1973 The Day of Their Return
1974, Sept/Oct - Nov/Dec A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (Emperor Hans; Crown Prince Dietrich; Prince Gerhart)
1979 A Stone in Heaven (Emperor Gerhart)
1985 The Game of Empire (Emperor Gerhart; Crown Prince Karl)

1968 The Dark Dimensions by A. Bertram Chandler (Emperor Edouard XIV)

I have not listed the fictional chronological order. Regular readers of the Technic History will see that:

Megan is a granddaughter of Hans;

Josip is the "homosexual Emperor";

Chandler can be said to contradict Emperor Georgios but not Josip, Hans or Gerhart because they were published later.

5 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

A CIRCUS OF HELLS is one of my favorite Flandry stories. And Georgios was still the reigning Emperor in that book.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

But was he named in the text?

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

No, Georgios was not named in CIRCUS. But since that Emperor was stated to have died three years before the events recorded in THE REBEL WORLDS, I assumed Georgios was still living in CIRCUS (when Flandry was aged 22).

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

I agree with that. My list only includes specific references to Emperors or their relatives - to check where Chandler's account diverges from Anderson's.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And it's a pity we never SEE Georgios and his Empress in one of the stories. They both seemed to have been decent persons.

Ad astra! Sean