Max And Miriam

Ensign Flandry is the first novel, and also the first volume, with Dominic Flandry as its central character. A Stone In Heaven is the last such novel and volume because Flandry merely cameos in the later The Game Of Empire. In Ensign Flandry, Max Abrams looks at a picture of his family, including young Miriam, and becomes a mentor to teenage Flandry. In A Stone..., Miriam, now an adult, links up with Flandry and remembers her now dead father advising her from an armchair. The Abrams are solid bookends for the Flandry series. We wish that we had seen more of Max and also of Flandry and Miriam together - although we do see something of the couple in The Game...

(My present philosophical reading approaches its conclusion with the usual amount of difficulty and disagreement combined with some interest and clarification. Next will be a book of alleged evidence for a hereafter: always of interest because prima facie evidence has to be provisionally accounted for somehow.)