There are four successive generations of Falkayns in Poul Anderson's Technic History although only David and his grandson, Nat, are central characters and Nat only in a single short story. There are five generations of a Gothic family in Anderson's "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth." See 300-372. The Flandry series does not continue long enough for Flandry to start having grandchildren.
Anything else in Anderson? How many generations on Rustum? (Three, I think.)
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Kaor, Paul!
Except for "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" we don't really see Poul Anderson using the multi-generational sagas very often. Another example would be HROLF KRAKI'S SAGA. MOTHER OF KINGS only covers two generations, Erik Blood-ax, his wife Queen Gunnhild, and their sons.
I think it has been S.M. Stirling who pioneered in recent times the idea of showing several generations of related characters in long series. I have in mind his Draka, Emberverse, and Shadowspawn stories.
But I would have liked to have seen more about some of the children and grand children of Dominic Flandry! There would have been "time" for that because I recall Flandry saying at the end of THE GAME OF EMPIRE he hoped the Empire would survive another two centuries.
Sean
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