IV Young Flandry
V Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire
VI Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra
VII Flandry's Legacy
Young Flandry collects three novels, beginning with Ensign Flandry.
We gather from these titles alone that Flandry starts young, matures, is promoted and knighted and has an impact.
Flandry's Legacy begins with A Stone In Heaven whose Chapter I ends:
"'...have you ever perchance heard of Admiral Flandry?'"
-Poul Anderson, A Stone In Heaven IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, June 2012), pp. 1-188 AT I, p. 16.
Flandry's Legacy continues with The Game Of Empire. In CHAPTER ONE of that novel, Diana Crowfeather says:
"'Oh, my father's Dominic Flandry. You may have heard of him. He's become an Admiral of the Fleet, but forty-odd years ago he was a fresh-caught ensign...'"
-Poul Anderson, The Game Of Empire IN Flandry's Legacy, pp. 189-453 AT CHAPTER ONE, p. 212.
The Wodenite, Axor, responds in part:
"'I have, yes, encountered tales of Admiral Flandry's exploits...'"
-ibid., p. 213.
The remaining four instalments collected in Flandry's Legacy take us centuries and millennia beyond Flandry's lifetime although readers of the series as a whole recognize consequences of his exploits even in the concluding instalment.
2 comments:
Well, indiivduals are important. Particularly in crucial situations.
Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!
Paul: Also, in THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS, we see mention on Unan Besar of folk tales about Polesotechnarch van Rijn. And we know from "The Star Plunderer" legends accumulated around Manuel Argos.
Nicholas van Rijn, Manuel I, Dominic Flandry, and Roan Tom were the men from the Technic series around whom legends/folk tales accreted.
Mr. Stirling: Absolutely! Individuals do matter! I got my copy of vol. 4 of Solzhenitsyn's MARCH 1917 yesterday and skimmed thru the list of chapters, and noticed the chapters about Lenin's frantic efforts to get out of Switzerland and back to Russia after Nicholas II's needless abdication. Ilyich was desperate to get back to Petrograd and take advantage of the confusion and muddle there to begin plotting efforts to grab power. The longer the future tyrant was absent the more likely somebody else would put an end to the chaos. But Ilyich needed German help and money for that--and was desperate to accept that only on his own terms.
What would have happened if Ilyich had not been injected into Russia like a plague bacillus by the Germans?
Ad astra! Sean
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