See "The Captain Flandry Series," here.
"The Warriors from Nowhere" became a prelude to A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows;
"A Plague of Masters" is a direct sequel to "A Message in Secret";
"Hunters of the Sky Cave" refers back to "The Game of Glory" which refers to "Honorable Enemies" which refers to "Tiger by the Tail."
Most of this makes sense when you consider the order in which these stories were written. In general, any new work about Dominic Flandry referred back to whatever he had achieved in the previous work and this pattern continued in the novels: Scotha, Nyanza, Chereion...
The last novel to feature Flandry ends as his daughter begins her career...
Across the generations and throughout history, endings are beginnings. See here. This theme continues in the final four installments of the Technic History which are set in three widely separated periods long after the Fall of the Terran Empire which Flandry delays but cannot prevent.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, the most Flandry dared to hope for, as we see at the end of THE GAME OF EMPIRE, was that the Empire might survive another two centuries. I rather hope it was longer than that!
Sean
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