Maybe Philippe Rochefort is our main man in this novel.
Rochefort successively interacts with:
his crew, both killed in battle;
Eve Davisson on Esperance;
Hrill, Draun, Arinnian and Eyath on Avalon;
Admiral Cajal in the superdreadnaught, Valenderay -
- so he could be regarded as a unifying character.
Rochefort is like Dominic Flandry except that he does not save the day for Terra. But everyone cannot do everything.
A Philippe Rochefort series is one of many hypothetical extensions of Poul Anderson's Technic History. Where does Rochefort go and what does he do after Avalon? Hloch might have told us. He writes after the Terran War but does not incorporate The People Of The Wind into his Earth Book compilation. We would have welcomed another such Editor for the second half of the Technic History.
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Kaor, Paul!
I think you're right, as described Rochefort does comes across as the main POV character in THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND.
Hope this gets uploaded.
Ad astra! Sean
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