Monday 23 June 2014

Nine Novels

Each of the nine volumes set during Dominic Flandry's lifetime either comprises or contains a novel although, as usual with any series or collection, the contents require some revision. Between the opening and concluding trilogies, thus between Volumes I-III and Volumes VII-IX, there could be:

IV The Day Of Their Return preceded by "Outpost of Empire";
V  "Hunters of the Sky Cave" (a short novel) preceded by the first three Flandry short stories;
VI "The Plague of Masters" (a short novel), preceded by "The Game of Glory."

"The Warriors from Nowhere" could appropriately be included as a prelude to VII, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows.

What I have for convenience called Volumes I-IX of the Flandry Period are really Volumes VIII-XVI of a possible seventeen volume edition of the Technic Civilization History. In the Flandry Period, there are nine novels and six short stories. One volume, IV/VIII, containing one short story and one novel, is non-Flandry.

Volume XVII of the History is one short novel and three shorter works. Flandry could be immediately preceded by these three volumes:

V   Mirkheim
VI  Avalon And Empire
VII The People Of The Wind

I write "could be" because, of course, I have invented Avalon And Empire as the title of a proposed collection of the four short stories that cover, respectively:

the colonization of the Avalonian islands;
the colonization of an Avalonian continent;
the Time of Troubles;
the early Terran Empire.

Volumes I-IV of the History are two collections and two novels set mainly in the Polesotechnic League period.

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