In time, he passes the mantle to his daughter Diana, who is also illegitimate.įlandry is willing to disregard conventional morality and use his foes' tactics against them. His career is dedicated to holding it off for as long as possible. Still he is painfully conscious of the impending fall of the Terran Empire and the subsequent 'Long Night' of a galactic dark age. 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.

His long-time archenemy is Aycharaych, a cultured but ruthless telepathic spymaster who weaves plots for the expansionist rival empire of the alien Merseians.

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. The space opera series is set in the 31st century, during the waning days of the Terran Empire. Several of his novels were published posthumously.The Flandry short novel A Plague of Masters was the cover story on the December 1960 issue of Fantastic before being published in book form as Earthman Go Home! ( Ace double, part of D-479)ĭominic Flandry is a fictional character and the protagonist of the second half of Poul Anderson's Technic History science fiction series. Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies.

Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.Īnderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.

Mikromega by Poul Anderson