Friday, 25 April 2014

Bite-Size Books? IV

Volume X
Ensign Flandry -

- introducing:

Dominic Flandry;
the Abrams family;
Naval Intelligence;
John Ridenour;
Tigeries;
Dragoika;
the Merseian Roidhunate;
Tachwyr the Dark.

Volume XI

A Circus Of Hells -

- introducing:

Irumclaw;
Talwin;
references to Aycharaych and Chereion;
a geas on Flandry.

Volume XII
The Rebel Worlds -

- introducing:

the Virgilian system;
the planet Dido;
Aenean tinerans;

the ancestors of the Kirkasanters.

(The point of these lists is the number of elements introduced in each installment that become significant in later installments: the pyramidal structure of a Heinlein-model future history. There are elements that I would not have thought of until I compiled the lists.)

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