The Flandry series culminates in A Stone in Heaven. Flandry merely cameos in The Game of Empire about his daughter.
The Technic History culminates in "Starfog."
The Polesotechnic League series, incorporating the convergent van Rijn, Falkayn and trader team series, culminates in Mirkheim.
The human-Ythrian contact series culminates in The People of the Wind although with a sequel in The Day Of Their Return.
The Young Flandry Trilogy culminates in The Rebel Worlds to which The Day Of Their Return is also a sequel.
The Captain Flandry Series
"Tiger by the Tail" (Planet Stories, January 1951)
"Honorable Enemies" (Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, May 1951)
"The Game of Glory" (Venture, March 1958)
"A Message in Secret" (Fantastic, December 1959)
"A Plague of Masters" (Fantastic, December 1960 - January 1961)
"A Handful of Stars" (Amazing, June 1959)
"The Warriors from Nowhere" (Planet Stories, Summer 1954)
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (If, Sept/Oct - Nov/Oct 1974)
Flandry was not a Campbell/Astounding/Analog character and was not associated with any other single periodical either although he started in Planet Stories.
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows confirms that Flandry will never have the woman that he really wants although that was a theme that started in The Young Flandry Trilogy. A Knight... is also the final showdown with Aycharaych, probably killed in the bombardment of Chereion but in any case neutralized as an agent of Merseia.
Why does Aycharaych not continue his race by cloning? Maybe cultural or psychological factors count against this. Aycharaych guards the legacy but maybe he believes that it is complete in itself and would only be demeaned by a sequel?
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