Future History Growth From Ensign Flandry To The Game Of Empire

The Game Of Empire.

When I summarized the Flandry series' sprawl across The Technic Civilization Saga here, I neglected to mention that the first Young Flandry novel, Ensign Flandry, ends with the urgent need to relocate some of the Starkadians, whose planet is about to be destroyed, and that, in the second Admiral Flandry novel, The Game Of Empire, communities of the two rational Starkadian species have been settled on Imhotep. Further, a spaceman from Aeneas has told Diana about Old Shen remnants on his planet, thus recalling the theme of The Day Of Their Return.

Any new installment of a future history series can both incorporate information from earlier installments and add completely new material. Thus, The Game Of Empire adds Imhotep and Daedalus, two colonized planets in the never-before-mentioned Patrician System, while at the same time referring to Starkad and Woden, to Merseians, Chereionites, Cynthians and other intelligent species - no need to go through the whole list yet again - and even to two prominent individuals, the historical Adzel the Wayfarer and the contemporary Admiral Flandry. People on Imhotep are also clearly familiar with the contemporary Admiral Magnusson whom we have not encountered before although we will soon learn more. A future history series that continued to be extended indefinitely in this manner would eventually become incredibly rich in background details, almost resembling real life in complexity.