(I am unable to attach a cover image of Flandry's Legacy. Have I used up my entitlement to free internet images? No, it has come on.)
I think of:
A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows
A Stone In Heaven
The Game Of Empire
- as three "Children of Empire" novels and of:
"A Tragedy of Errors"
The Night Face
"The Sharing of Flesh"
"Starfog"
- as the four post-Imperial installments of the Technic History. Thus, these two sequences could provide the contents of the two concluding omnibus volumes of the Technic History.
However, in Baen Books' seven-volume The Technic Civilization Saga:
Volume VII comprises all the above works except A Knight...;
Flandry is a Captain throughout Volumes V and VI;
Vol VI concludes with A Knight...;
"Bodin's Prayer" is a highly appropriate concluding passage for Vol VI.
In A Stone... and The Game..., Flandry is an Admiral at last, still in Intelligence with a staff loyal to him and choosing his own assignments. He also finally marries and The Game... is potentially the beginning of a new series about his daughter in Intelligence.
Thus, maybe Baen Books' packaging makes sense.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI totally understand why Anderson turned to very different ideas and themes after THE GAME OF EMPIRE--see THE KING OF YS, ORION SHALL RISE, and THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS, just for starters! Still, I can't help but regret how we did not get one or two more stories featuring Diana Crowfeather/Flandry and her friends Targovi and Fr. Axor.
Ad astra! Sean