The contents of the proposed Captain Flandry, not to be confused with the already existing Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire, divide conveniently into four pairs:
"Tiger by the Tail"
"Honorable Enemies"
"A Message in Secret"
"The Plague of Masters"
"The Game of Glory"
"Hunters of the Sky Cave"
"The Warriors from Nowhere"
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
We discern an Aycharaych trilogy:
in "Honorable Enemies," Flandry first meets and defeats Aycharaych;
in "Hunters of the Sky Cave," Flandry captures Aycharaych;
in A Knight..., Flandry kills or at least neutralizes Aycharaych.
We also notice that Chives and the Hooligan come on-stage in the last three instalments and that Flandry's superior, Fenross, is in "Hunters..." and "The Warriors..."
6 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
After some hesitation, wondering if collecting all the Captain Flandry stories in one volume would be too much, I like that idea.
Any republishing of the Technic stories might do the Flandry and post-Imperial stories like this:
THE IMPERIAL STARS, collecting the three Young Flandry novels.
OUTPOSTS OF EMPIRE, collecting "Outpost of Empire" and THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN.
DEFENDER THE EMPIRE, collecting the Captain Flandry stories.
CHILDREN OF EMPIRE, collecting A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS, A STONE IN HEAVEN, and THE GAME OF EMPIRE.
THE POST-IMPERIAL ERA, collecting the four post-Imperial stories and the original texts of the five Technic stories revised by Anderson or incorporated into A CIRCUS OF HELLS ("The White King's War").
I wanted to keep "Imperial" or "Empire" in my suggested titles for these collections.
Ad astra! Sean
Drat! I omitted "OF" from DEFENDER OF THE EMPIRE.
Sean
Sean,
A KNIGHT... can be seen as the culmination of CAPTAIN FLANDRY or as the first of CHILDREN OF... Some of it comes down to viable word and page numbers in a given volume.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I prefer the latter alternative, because to include KNIGHT in DEFENDER would make DEFENDER OF THE EMPIRE too bulky.
Ad astra! Sean
CAPTAIN FLANDRY or Defender makes sense as a three-book boxed set: the two collections and A KNIGHT...
Kaor, Paul!
I am not sure. I like the way I listed these hypothetical collections. They would seem to make especially good sense if parts of a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON.
Ad astra! Sean
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