Ensign Flandry In The Technic history

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This morning, over a second coffee, I took Ensign Flandry from a shelf and reread its opening pages. I could easily get drawn back into rereading the entire Young Flandry Trilogy although really it is too soon.

Ensign Flandry:

comes directly after The Earth Book Of Stormgate in the seventeen(or so)-volume reading order of Poul Anderson's Technic History or directly after The People of The Wind in the The Technic Civilization Saga edition;

introduces Dominic Flandry, a major series character;

introduces the Merseian Roidhunate as now the main antagonist of the Terran Empire;

introduces the Starkadians who reappear in The Game Of Empire;

introduces John Ridenour who reappears in "Outpost of Empire";

introduces Persis d'Io who will become the mother of Dominic Hazeltine who appears in A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows;

introduces Max Abrams, Flandry's mentor and father of Miriam Abrams who appears in A Stone In Heaven.