Nias Warouw, Flandry's captor, chose between retaining his position of power on Unan Besar and making his own way in the galaxy. Now, Nias Warouw, Flandry's captive, chooses between dying in the cage and making his own way in the galaxy. Suddenly that galaxy looks very attractive. The price of Warouw's life is the long overdue overthrow of Biocontrol. Because it is necessary to take him alive, three good men lose their lives.
The attached image shows the Young Flandry Trilogy and the Captain Flandry series but not the Admiral Flandry novels. The Captain Flandry series necessarily begins with "Tiger By The Tail" and "Honorable Enemies" in that order, ends with "The Game of Glory," "Hunters of the Sky Cave," "The Warriors from Nowhere" and A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows in that order and includes "A Message in Secret" and "The Plague of Masters" in that order between the beginning and the end. That gives us a reading order different both from the order given in the collections, Agent Of The Terran Empire and Flandry Of Terra, and from that in the omnibus volumes of The Technic Civilization Saga.
Having finished rereading "The Plague of Masters," we might next reread "The Game of Glory," then consider some earlier events in the Technic History.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Well, if I was forced to make a choice between the cage or exile from Unan Besar, I would choose the latter, as did Warouw!
And we don't know what happened to Nias in later years. Where did he settle? What did he do? Did he become a politician? A man as able as him would probably succeed at almost anything he tried.
Ad astra! Sean
Yet another sign of Biocontrol’s institutional decay - the defection of one upper-middle rank security administrator brings the whole show down.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
It did, after Flandry and his friends from Ranau made sure Warouw got Flandry off Unan Besar in ways that would not alarm Biocontrol. Flandry would need time to make all the necessary arrangements for an adequate supply of antitoxin being made at Spica VI, so it would not matter if some crazy destroyed Biocontrol Central when he came back.
Ad astra! Sean
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