Ensign Flandry (Flandry #1)
Poul Anderson
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
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· 24 ratings · 217 pages · Published: 1966
Before he's through he'll have saved worlds and become the confidante of emperors. But for now he's seventeen years old, as fresh and brash a sprig of the nobility as you would care to know. The only thing as damp as the place behind his ears is the ink on his brand-new commission.
Though through this and his succeeding adventures he will struggle gloriously and win (usually) mighty victories, Dominic Flandry is essentially a tragic figure: a man who knows too much, who knows that battle, scheme and even betray as he will, in the end it will mean nothing. For with the relentlessness of physical law the Long Night approaches. The Terran Empire is dying...
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The 'Flandry' series
3.68 · 73 ratings- Ensign Flandry by Poul Anderson Book #1
- A Circus of Hells by Poul Anderson Book #2
- The Rebel Worlds by Poul Anderson Book #3
- The Day of Their Return by Poul Anderson Book #4
- Agent of the Terran Empire by Poul Anderson Book #5
- Flandry of Terra by Poul Anderson Book #6
- A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by Poul Anderson Book #7
- A Stone In Heaven by Poul Anderson Book #8
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