An Annotated Text

Nowadays, I can reread Poul Anderson's A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows while simultaneously consulting my own previous notes on its text, e.g.:

Dominic Hazeltine
spiral arm
Catalina
Mayor Palatine
niello
Trohdwyr
zmay
ychani
Gwyth
Zorkagrad
etc

The first three chapters of A Knight... make many references to earlier installments of the Technic History:

Persis d'Io in Ensign Flandry;
Fenross who was Flandry's superior in "Hunters of the Sky Cave" and "The Warriors from Nowhere";
Scotha in "Tiger By The Tail";
Princess Megan in "The Warriors from Nowhere";
Avalon in The People Of The Wind;
van Rijn on Diomedes in The Man Who Counts;
Manuel Argos in "The Star Plunderer";
Kheraskov from The Rebel Worlds;
Chunderban Desai from The Day Of Their Return;
the McCormac rebellion in The Rebel Worlds;
the potential Aenean jihad in The Day Of Their Return;
the Polesotechnic League becoming cartelized in Mirkheim -

- and, in a later chapter, a flashback scene is set on Talwin which was introduced in A Circus Of Hells.

But we are also told the sequels to some of the earlier events:

Persis' son by Flandry;
what happened after Emperor Josip, against whom McCormac had rebelled, died;
what happened in Sector Tauria after Flandry's rescue of Princess Megan;
what Chunderban Desai did after his spell on Aeneas;
what Flandry has been doing - taking it easy.

Thus, we are introduced to an entire new period in Imperial history with a new set of threats and also to the later phase of Flandry's career.