Wednesday, 27 November 2024

Species In The First Four Novels Of The Flandry Period

Starkad has two intelligent species, land- and sea-dwellers. After Starkad, Flandry visits Merseia and later travels in a trader crewed by Irumclagians.

Later still, Flandry is based on Irumclaw.

Wayland has no organic inhabitants but does have robots controlled by one human-made conscious computer.

Talwin has two intelligent species, hibernators and estivators.

Dido and Aeneas are in the Virgilian System in Sector Alpha Crucis. En route to that Sector, Flandry, commanding an Imperial ship, visits the inhabited planet, Shalmu. His Executive Officer is a Ferran.

Dido has three species that link to form a single composite intelligence.

Aeneas has no natives, was colonized by the Ancients and currently by human beings and is visited by a Chereionite and an Ythrian. Also, the mascots of the Aenean tinerans are the telepathic parasites that had destroyed the Ancient/Chereionite interstellar civilization.

The moral of the story: Poul Anderson keeps them coming.

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