Hloch does not mention Dominic Flandry because Flandry had not been born yet and the post-Imperial stories do not mention him because in their periods he was long dead although the alert reader notices some evidence of "Flandry's Legacy." Not only was Flandry long dead but so was the Anglic language that he had spoken and human civilizations had spread from a four-hundred-light-year-diameter sphere into several spiral arms of the galaxy. We must stand back a long way to view the Technic History as a whole from a Saturnian moon in 2055 to the edge of another spiral arm in 7100.
The reasons for a conflict of long ago:
"...had dropped into the bottom of the millennia between then and now. (A commentary on the importance of any such reasons.)"
-Poul Anderson, "Starfog" IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 709-794 AT p. 728.
Such reasons are unimportant to the characters in "Starfog" but the readers know that Flandry was centrally involved.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Well, ambitious and able people could also get rich during the Imperial era because by keeping the peace, maintaining law and order, and backing a stable currency, the Empire made it possible for people to get rich. And the things I listed were good!
Yes, classical Anglic was extinct by the time of "Starfog," but I'm sure there were other languages which descended from it. We see the beginnings of that process in "A Tragedy of Errors."
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Yes. I was trying to contrast the Commonwealth and the Long Night as respectively before and after the Empire but there was great wealth in the Empire as well.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
And there were even men who, in a way, were also entrepreneurs. I am thinking here of how, in A CIRCUS OF HELLS, someone as disreputable as Leon Ammon discovered his own equivalent of Mirkheim in the mineral rich moon Wayland.
ad astra! Sean
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