Ensign Flandry [Hardcover]

Poul Anderson (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Chilton Books; First Edition edition (1966)
• ASIN: B000OW0ZL8
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,825,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Books are Timeless, March 28, 2000

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C. Erwin (Issaquah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ensign Flandry (Coronet Books) (Paperback)

This is the first book of the Poul Anderson series, "Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra" and it was published in the mid-sixties. I say this up front because the book, story and characters live outside the copyright date and achieve that timeless quality you expect from authurs like Asimov, Burroughs and of course Poul Anderson. Flandry is just an ensign when we meet him in this story and at first, he doesn't even feel like the staring character. As the story unfolds, we expect more and more from our young ensign until the fate of Terra and other worlds hang on his every decision. Don't get me wrong, he's not made Emporer by books end. Through and through, he is just an ensign who plays the cards that are dealt him. It is said that great events make great men and we see Ensign Flandry take on a captivating shape. I haven't read the next books in the series, but have high hopes for the Long Night of the Terran Empire.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader, August 3, 2007

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Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ensign Flandry: The Saga of Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra (Ensign Flandry S., V. 1) (Volume 1) (Paperback)

Flandry is fresh out of the military joint at 19, and shows some quick thinking and nereve in a confrontation between two races on an outpost world.

An old diplomat and spymaster recognises a possible super agent, when he sees one, and apparently there is a large shortish of such even in the massive empire, so he gives Flandry a job.

He uncovers a very big secret, on more than one front, and is sometimes on the run from his own side.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Space Opera! James Bond of the 31st Centuryl, April 6, 2005

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Roger J. Buffington (Huntington Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ensign Flandry: The Saga of Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra: Book 1 (Paperback)

This is the first book of the "Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra" series. Basically, it is the 31st Century, and Humankind has established a large, but now decadent, interstellar empire. Dominic Flandry is a brilliant, resourceful young man who is eventually recruited into the Imperial Intelligence Corps by Max Abrams, head of Terran security on the world of Starkad, where the Terran Empire and their deadly rivals, the Merseians, are fighting a brush-fire war.

Before all is said and done, Flandry has uncovered the deadly secret of the Starkad War, which poses a lethal threat to Humanity. Both sides are after him, and in the end his brilliance is established. Flandry is the James Bond of the 31st Century and the whole "Flandry" series is great space opera. Those readers who appreciate this genre won't want to pass this one up. The whole Flandry series by Poul Anderson is well worth reading.