"'Technic civilization started on that road when the Polesotechnic League changed from a mutual-aid organization of free entrepreneurs to a set of cartels. Today we far along the way.'"
-Poul Anderson, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, March 2012), pp. 339-606 AT III, pp. 388-389)
That phrase, "...far along the way...," encapsulates the whole "end of the age" feel of the Flandry series. Desai refers to the events of Mirkheim and thus links this Captain Flandry series culmination back to the Polesotechnic League series culmination, binding the Technic History across time. There are other League-Empire links but not at this time of night, folks.
Meanwhile, while we reread The Byworlder, Yvonne asks Skip to tell her about his idea at the very end of Chapter VIII and, in Chapter IX, they have started to work on that idea without as yet having told us what it is although their artistic discussion is a clue.
The TV News has just come on, about Gaza. Good night.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I quibbled, in another combox, that some characters/readers were too dismissive of the Empire. By the time of the events seen in ENSIGN FLANDRY the Empire had successfully endured for more than 400 years. The breakdown of the League we see beginning in MIRKHEIM occurred too far in the past by Flandry's youth to be directly relevant to the problems faced by the Empire.
Ad astra! Sean
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