-Poul Anderson, A Circus Of Hells IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 193-365 AT CHAPTER ONE, pp. 198-199.
Manse Everard to Carl Farness:
"'In fact, between the two of us, I feel that Coordinator Abdullah got needlessly stuffy.'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 333-465 AT 1980, p.385.
Well. Superior officers called Abdullah get a bad press in Poul Anderson's two main fictional timelines. We have scant insight into Time Patrol ranks. There are attached agents, Unattached agents, Specialists, Coordinators, the Middle Command and the Danellians.
Of course, I searched the blog to check whether I had posted about these two Abdullahs before but the only name that came up was Abdullah Helu, (scroll down) also of the Terran Empire.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I remember, with some amusement, the Commander Abdullah we see in A CIRCUS OF HELLS. That "fishy eye" he had for Flandry was simply because Flandry had been showing insufficient respect for an Imperial symbol, the Emperor's portrait.
And Coordinator Abdullah was probably simply a well meaning administrator.
Ad astra! Sean
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