"'When my leave's up, I report to Terra, no less, for the next assignment. I daresay somebody in a lofty echelon has gotten word about the Talwin affair and wants to talk to me - which won't hurt the old career a bit, eh?'" (p. 363)
- which leads straight into the beginning of The Rebel Worlds. The Talwin affair joins the Starkad affair in Flandry's curriculum vitae. And it occurs to us that, if we are reading the series in chronological order of fictious events, then we have not yet seen Terra in Flandry's time. He is usually elsewhere. But in fact we have reread The Rebel Worlds relatively recently so the only place left for us to go in rereading Flandry is to his earliest published "Captain Flandry" series.
We can now reread "Captain Flandry" from the perspective of having first read the later written Young Flandry Trilogy. We have seen Flandry as Ensign, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander and Commander before he became a Captain and, of course, there are also the later Admiral Flandry novels but we have also recently reread those. We will soon have to find something else to reread.
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Kaor, Paul!
Flandry prevaricated just a teensy bit, tho! I recall how Admiral Kheraskov commented in THE REBEL WORLDS that Flandrdy hushed up some of his more questionable activities a la Irumclaw/Wayland. Which caused him a bit of alarm until Kheraskov chuckled and told him to relax, the Service would turn a blind eye to much of what he did, unless Flandry indeed ever went too far!
Ad astra! Sean
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