Espião Interestelar - Coleção Argonauta nr 324

Poul Anderson

Livros do Brasil

1984

261 páginas

8h 42m

Português

[Flandry Series, #1] "Espião Interstelar" é a versão portuguesa de "Ensign Flandry" (1966), uma das curiosas obras que Poul Anderson escreveu em torno da figura lendária do jovem Dominic Flandry, aspirante do Corpo Naval Imperial e agente secreto da Terra, sempre envolvido nas mais extraordinárias aventuras, apesar dos seus dezanove anos. Agora o problema está nos peles verdes de Mersela - os belicosos e inteligentes répteis que sonham em destruir a Terra. Tudo começa em Starkad, um pequeno planeta na terra-de-ninguém, que durante séculos serviu de palco à guerra entre dois partidos. Subitamente Mersela surge a apoiar um deles... e naturalmente a Terra passa a apoiar o outro. E a escalada começa. Mas que interesse terá Mersela em arriscar-se a uma guerra com a Terra, por causa de um planeta tão pobre?

[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"."