Battle In Space
Battle In Space II
A Singh In Space
My present task is to reread this chapter to extract any interesting information that was not included in earlier posts. After that, Chapter Eighteen concludes this novel and the following novel in the Flandry sequence of the Technic History is A Circus Of Hells.
In A Circus..., Flandry again demonstrates his ability not just to "work here" or to do the job but to take elaborate pains and risks for longer term goals that transcend - although they do not exclude! - self-aggrandizement. Over the course of three novels, the Young Flandry Trilogy, our hero becomes the Captain Flandry who had first appeared in "Tiger By The Tail" in 1951 when I was two years old. Nicholas van Rijn first appeared four years later in 1956 when I began to attend a boarding school in Scotland. Clearly, at that stage, there was not yet any thought of a History of Technic Civilization with van Rijn living centuries before Flandry...
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
In fact the Flandry stories started appearing before any of Fleming's James Bond books were published. I have nothing against the Bond stories except my view that the Flandry tales were better written spy fictions. It's one of my pet hopes that somebody in the movie industry will become interested in Nicholas van Rijn and Dominic Flandry and try his hand at making movies about them. Accurate and faithful movies!
Sean
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