The People Of The Wind.
Tabitha captures a Terran. We recognize him:
"He was tall, swarthy by Avalonian measure...people with such chromosomes generally settled between stronger suns than Laura...." (IX, p. 550)
( - like the sun of Nyanza.)
We realize that Draun has killed Helu but Tabitha has rescued Rochefort. The latter reminds us of a later Terran:
Rochefort:
"...he stretched to the limit the tolerance granted officers regarding their dress uniforms - rakishly tilted bonnet bearing the sunburst of Empire, gold-trimmed blue tunic, scarlet sash and cloak, snowy trousers tucked into low boots of authentic Terran beef-leather." (IV, p. 487)
Flandry:
"...his bonnet was tilted more rakishly on his seal-brown hair than a strict interpretation of rules would have allowed; his frame was draped in a fantastic glittergold version of dress tunic and snowy trousers rucked into handsome beefleather halfboots; the cloak that fluttered behind him glowed with phosphorescent patterns through the chill dusk..."
-Poul Anderson, A Circus Of Hells IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, January 2010), pp. 193-365 AT CHAPTER TWO, p. 203.
Contrast Admiral Cajal:
"His uniform was as plain as his rank allowed."
-The People Of The Wind, VII, p. 514.
We value human diversity.
On p. 667 of The People Of The Wind, Sandra Miesel's CHRONOLGY OF TECHNIC CIVILIZATION informs us that:
"A descendant of Falkayn and an ancestor of Flandry cross paths."
Rochefort is a precursor of Flandry but is not known to be his ancestor.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And the Imperial admiral John Ridenour conferred with in "Outpost of Empire" was content with a plain, businesslike field uniform.
Exactly, Sandra Miesel was only speculating that Rochefort was an ancestor of Flandry.
Ad astra! Sean
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