# Poul Anderson, Game of Empire

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**Created:** [June 13, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poul-anderson-game-of-empire/722399 "2015-06-13T00:54:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poul-anderson-game-of-empire/722399/1 "2015-06-13T00:54:50Z")

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I was very happy to find it in a ebook file that I had not read.  
Admiral Flandry, a tigery (sp), Wodenite and attractive human girl as protagonists. Who could ask for more?  
Did Anderson write anything else using this Flandry like group?

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poul-anderson-game-of-empire/722399/2 "2015-06-13T03:00:15Z")

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Linky link link? Anderson is wonderful, and Flandry is… Well, “haunting” is a good word. The Flandry cycle is dark and cold and chilling. “A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows” is one hell of a novel.

Anderson’s SF has some problems. For instance, the idea that a human can pilot a spaceship better than a computer can. Ahem, cough, cough, BULLSHIT! But it’s a nice sentiment, and the notion of humanizing the future is a noble one. Anderson also cuts corners now and then in his plots. Little things, minor dramatic pecadillos.

All taken with all, he’s one of the best, with a rich, poetic, highly descriptive style. He said that he liked to evoke all five of the reader’s senses on every page.

Anyway, link, please! I don’t think I have this one! (And…if I do, I’ll enjoy rereading it!)

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poul-anderson-game-of-empire/722399/3 "2015-06-13T03:19:09Z")

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Private message me.  
Anderson describes something like “miniature vacuum tubes” as the working of spaceship electronics. He had no knowledge of our computers.

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**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poul-anderson-game-of-empire/722399/4 "2015-06-13T03:28:19Z")

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Game of Empire was an attempt by Anderson to spin off a series based on Flandry’s daughter Diana, but from what I understand it didn’t sell very well, so he gave up making a new series.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poul-anderson-game-of-empire/722399/5 "2015-06-13T12:11:53Z")

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That’s too bad. The tigrey guy was pretty cool, bringing back a mersian head as evidence. 🙂