Tuesday 28 January 2020

Planets Revisited

Nicholas van Rijn is shipwrecked on Diomedes in a novel that has been variously published as:

War Of The Wing-Men
The Man Who Counts
Earthbook Of Stormgate 2

Dominic Flandry visited Talwin in A Circus Of Hells and had heard of Chereion some time before the events of "Honorable Enemies."

In A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, Flandry:

revisits Talwin;
visits Diomedes;
visits, then bombards, Chereion.

It is good that these imaginatively conceived planets are re-used but the main glory of A Knight... is Dennitza, entirely new to the reader. Flandry would have settled there if his Dennitzan fiancee had not been murdered...

In the next novel, Falkayn's home planet, Hermes, is seen again and Ramnu is introduced.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Flandry briefly revisited Talwin during its long winter, meaning the Domrath tribes would be hibernating. But I wish we could have seen a bit more of the Ruadrath, who don't estivate during the winters.

And I'm sorry Kossara Vymezal was murdered and Flandry did not settle on Dennitza. Hmmm, but if he hadn't he never would have eventually begotten Diana Crowfeather, and she in turn would never have been so crucial in thwarting Olaf Magnusson!

Ad astra! Sean