Captain Flandry : Defender of the Terran Empire (The Technic Civilization Saga #Book 5) - [Audible Audiobook – Unabridged]

Poul Anderson, Poul William Anderson

Tantor Audio

2021

2 páginas

4m

ISBN-10: B08S45M2BW

Poul Anderson's Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire: Technic Civilization, Book 5 [Audiobook] –
[Listening Length: 20 hours and 14 minutes]: BJ Harrison (Narrator), Tantor Audio '-'

No longer a brash, young ensign, Captain Dominic Flandry has risen in rank but now appreciates fully that the Terran empire is old and tired, wanting to be left in peace. But the enemies it has made and the competing empire of Merseia will give it no peace. Too evenly matched for open warfare not to destroy them both, the opponents engage in subtle thrust and counter-thrust, feint and counter-feint, with Flandry in the thick of it.

Though through this and his succeeding adventures he will struggle gloriously and snatch victory from the alien jaws of defeat, Flandry is yet a tragic figure: a man who knows too much history, 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 Empire is falling and the Long Night is approaching. If that darkness is not to fall in his own lifetime, if the things he cares about are to be saved, he must do what he can. And anyone, human or alien, who gets in his way will most definitely regret it.
©2010 Poul Anderson (P)2021 Tanto
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[Wikipedia] Terran Empire, period of Dominic Flandry:
"The Imperial Stars" (2000), collects: Ensign Flandry (1966) / A Circus of Hells (1970) / The Rebel Worlds (1969).

Dominic Flandry is the central character in the second half of Poul Anderson's Technic History science fiction. He first appeared in 1951. The space opera series is set in the 31st century, during the waning days of the Terran Empire. Flandry is a dashing field agent of the Imperial Intelligence Corps who travels the stars to fight off imminent threats to the empire from both external enemies and internal treachery. His long-time archenemy is Aycharaych, a cultured but ruthless telepathic spymaster who weaves plots for the expansionistic rival empire of the alien Merseians. The illegitimate son of a minor nobleman, Flandry rises to considerable power within the decadent Empire by his own wits, and enjoys all the pleasures his position in society gives him. Still he is painfully conscious of the impending fall of the Terran Empire and the subsequent "Long Night" of a galactic dark age. His career is dedicated to holding it off for as long as possible. In time, he passes the mantle to his daughter Diana, who is also illegitimate. Flandry is willing to disregard conventional morality and use his foes' tactics against them. He can cheerfully deceive, seduce, and blackmail; in A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, he orders the mind-probing of his traitorous illegitimate son, reducing him to a vegetative state, and bombards Aycharaych's uninhabited homeworld into radioactive ruin in part for vengeance, as Aycharaych's latest plot had resulted in the death of the woman he loved and planned to marry"."
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https://www.goodreads.com/series/53156-flandry
https://bibliowiki.com.pt/index.php/Dominic_Flandry
https://bibliowiki.com.pt/index.php/Nicholas_Van_Rijn
https://bibliowiki.com.pt/index.php/Technic_History