Culminations

A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows is the culmination of the Captain Flandry series and of Flandry's conflict with Aycharaych. This novel shows the ultimate consequences of Flandry's relationship with Persis d'Io in Ensign Flandry and of the curse that Djana had laid on him at the end of A Circus Of Hells - if we believe the latter. After A Knight..., there is no more Captain Flandry.

In A Stone In Heaven, Flandry is a Vice Admiral. In The Game Of Empire, he is a Fleet Admiral who appears in only three chapters whereas his daughter, her companions and occasionally another significant figure like Olaf Magnusson fill the remaining twenty chapters. In the remaining four instalments of the Technic History, Flandry and even the Terran Empire have themselves become history and each story carries the narrative further into the post-Imperial future. Even the continuity provided by continuing characters has been left behind. We are left with historical process itself as the subject matter of the series.