Thursday, 22 March 2018

In The Hooligan

Chives recommends a red wine, not Beaujolais but Chateau Falkayn '35, to accompany a tournedos. (For other meals, see The Food Thread.)

Dominic Flandry and Dominic Hazeltine have just summarized:

The Man Who Counts, Nicholas van Rijn shipwrecked on Diomedes;

The People Of The Wind, Avalon fighting to stay in the Domain of Ythri;

"The Warriors from Nowhere," Flandry rescuing Emperor Hans' granddaughter.

The reference to Chateau Falkayn recalls the Falkayn Domain in Mirkheim.

The conversation has also introduced Dennitza, a planet shared by human beings and Merseians. Every new installment of a future history should refer to what we know and tell us something new. There is a lot of "what we know" by the time we have read Poul Anderson's Technic History as far as A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And there's still a lot we DON'T know about Technic Civilization. Such as where did Old Nick go for his last great journey of exploration? And what happened to Leon Ammon? And who was the Empress Dowager and Widow of Georgios, etc.?

Sean