Wednesday, 11 December 2019

Historical Continuities III

Historical Continuities omitted important connections like:

Flandry defended the Terran Empire from the Merseians, who had earlier been helped by Falkayn;

Falkayn worked with a Mahayana Buddhist Wodenite whereas Flandry's daughter worked with a Jerusalem Catholic Wodenite;

An Avalonian Ythrian spied for the Empire in Flandry's time;

a later civilization contacted descendants of rebels expelled by Flandry.

But Poul Anderson fans know all this and a much longer post would be necessary to list all the connections.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And if the Empire had annexed Avalon, then there would not have been a Ythrian agent who spied for the Empire, helping to squelch that Jihad Aycharaych had been plotting to foment on Aeneas. A minor defeat at Avalon was to prevent the Empire from being shattered!

Ad astra! Sean