Monday, 30 November 2020

Intermediate Narratives

Poul Anderson wrote the Young Flandry Trilogy as an extended prequel to his Captain Flandry series. However, two intermediate works also continue plot threads from the Trilogy.

In Ensign Flandry, John Ridenour is on Starkad at the same time as Flandry. In "Outpost of Empire," Ridenour is on Freehold.

In A Circus Of Hells, Aycharaych, a continuing character in the Captain Flandry series, is mentioned for the first time. The Day Of Their Return shows Aycharaych active on Aeneas before he first met Flandry in "Honorable Enemies."

At the end of The Rebel Worlds, Aaron Snelund, Governor of Sector Alpha Crucis, is dead and Hugh McCormac, Firstman of Ilion on Aeneas, has gone into exile with his wife and sons. The Day Of Their Return shows the aftereffects on Aeneas of Snelund's Governorship and of the defeated McCormac Rebellion.

The concluding installment of the Technic History, "Starfog," introduces remote descendants of some of the Aenean exiles.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the aftereffects of both Snelund's wretched governorship and McCormac's foolish rebellion might have been truly disastrous--due to Aycharaych's scheming on Aeneas. And those intriguefs might well have succeeded, except for several fortunate events happening or not happening.

Nearly finished rereading ENSIGN FLANDRY, I've reached Chapter 16 already. Finding it much more of a page turner than much of May's MAGNIFICAT.

Ad astra! Sean