Unfortunately, we approach the end of this novel yet again. There are only two chapters left. It has been unexpectedly enjoyable to reread this account of Dominic Flandry's initiation into Intelligence. The second last chapter describes a space battle. See here. Previously, it took some work to study this chapter and summarize the battle but it is unnecessary to repeat that exercise. This time, I will reread at a leisurely pace, again looking out for any details missed before but not needing to keep track of the fates of Sabik, Umbriel etc.
What do the names of the ships mean?
Antarctica
New Brazil
Murdoch's Land
When I started to write this post, I did not expect to initiate those google searches. There is always more to be found in Poul Anderson's texts.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Before aircraft carriers made then obsolete, the US Navy had a class of massive named after US states. I think it's customary to name carriers after Presidents. Other Navy ships were named after locations and persons. And I assume the Empire behaved similarly with its ships. I also recall how Flandry captured a subdestroyer named the "Erwin Rommel" from the McCormac rebels in THE REBEL WORLDS. With him wondering who Rommel was!
Superdreadnaughts seemed to be customarily named after super novas in the Terran navy.
Ad astra! Sean
I meant to write "massive battleships."
Sean
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