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Title: A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Title Record # 5275
Author: Poul Anderson
Date: 1975-05-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Dominic Flandry
Language: English
Note: The story in this book takes place A.D. 3047 according to the timeline in A Chronology of Technic Civilization
Synopsis: From the front flap of the Gregg Press edition: "The Terran Empire is crumbling - and it requires the remarkable talents of Sir Dominic Flandy, bon vivant, universal troubleshooter, and Knight in Earth's Imperial Space Navy, to put the pieces back together. A hint of trouble and the purchase of an aristocratic slave girl send Flandry on a quick flight to Diomedes aboard his well-equipped spacer Hooligan. Once there, a diabolically unorthodox gambit nets Dominic the data he both needs and dreads to find. As he had suspected, the Diomedean unrest was merely a thin smoke screen, masking a deadly plan for galaxy-wide insurrection and civil war that could blast the tottering Empire into its component planets, leaving it easy prey for the neighboring Merseian federation. Time is running out for the Empire, and only Dominic Flandry, half a universe away from the real trouble planet of Dennitza, has the knowledge to prevent an explosion which could spark the beginning of the end for Terran civilization."
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations Serializations
Year Title
1980 Knight Flandry
Year Language Title
1982Translated by Ingrid Rothmann
German Schattenwelt
1985 Italian Cavaliere di spettri e d'ombre
2008Translated by Dietmar Schmidt
German Schattenwelt
2008Translated by Jean-Daniel Brèque
French Chevalier de spectres et d'ombres
Year Title
1974 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (Part 1 of 2)
1974 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (Part 2 of 2)

Awards

Place Year and Award Category
23 1975 Locus Best SF Novel

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Worlds of If, September-October 1974 1974-09-00 ed. James Baen UPD Publishing Corporation  
$0.75?$: US dollar
180
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Wendi Pini Checkmark
Worlds of If, September-October 1974 [UK] 1974-09-00 ed. James Baen Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd.  
£0.30?£: UK pound
180
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Wendi Pini Checkmark
Worlds of If, November-December 1974 1974-11-00 ed. James Baen UPD Publishing Corporation  
$0.75?$: US dollar
164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Rick Sternbach Checkmark
Worlds of If, November-December 1974 [UK] 1974-11-00 ed. James Baen Universal-Tandem Publishing Company Ltd.  
£0.30?£: UK pound
164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag  
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1975-05-00 Poul Anderson Nelson Doubleday / SFBC 1026
$1.98?$: US dollar
184
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Chet Jezierski Checkmark
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1975-10-00 Poul Anderson Signet / New American Library 451-W6725
$1.50?$: US dollar
222
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Gene Szafran Checkmark
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1975-10-00 Poul Anderson Signet / New American Library of Canada W6725
C$1.50?C$: Canadian dollar
222
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Gene Szafran Checkmark
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1978-01-00 Poul Anderson Sphere Books 0-7221-1162-2
£0.85?£: UK pound
221
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Melvyn Grant Checkmark
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1979-08-00 Poul Anderson Gregg Press 0-8398-2523-4
$12.50?$: US dollar
221
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Don Carter Checkmark
Knight Flandry 1980-04-00 Poul Anderson Severn House 0-7278-0581-9
£4.95?£: UK pound
221
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel Chet Jezierski  
Schattenwelt 1982-05-00 Poul Anderson
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Action?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Action
#21151)
3-404-21151-0
DM 5.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
266
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Michael Whelan  
The Rebel Worlds / A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1982-11-00 Poul Anderson Signet / New American Library (Signet Double Science Fiction) 0-451-11885-5
$2.95?$: US dollar
141+
221
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
omni Gene Szafran Checkmark
The Rebel Worlds / A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1982-11-00 Poul Anderson Signet / New American Library of Canada (Signet Double Science Fiction) 0-451-11885-5
C$3.50?C$: Canadian dollar
141+
221
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
omni Gene Szafran Checkmark
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1984-00-00 Poul Anderson Sphere Books 0-7221-1162-2
£1.75?£: UK pound
221
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Checkmark
La lunga notte della barbarie 1985-02-00 Poul Anderson Editrice Nord (Cosmo Serie Oro. Classici della Narrativa di Fantascienza #68)  
Lit 12,000?Lit: Italian lira
xxii+
420
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
omni Michael Whelan  
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1987-11-00 Poul Anderson Signet / New American Library 0-451-15057-0
$2.95?$: US dollar
222
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Tim Hildebrandt Checkmark
Spion der Erde 1990-11-00 Poul Anderson
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction Abenteuer?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction Abenteuer
#23108)
3-404-23108-2
DM 10.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
718
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
omni
Hans-Günter Hauptmann?Hans-Guenter Hauptmann
Checkmark
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 1993-02-00 Poul Anderson Tor 0-812-52225-7
$4.99?$: US dollar
247
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Roger Loveless Checkmark
Schattenwelt 2008-00-00 Poul Anderson
Bastei Lübbe?Bastei Luebbe
(
Bastei Lübbe Science Fiction & Fantasy?Bastei Luebbe Science Fiction & Fantasy
#24368)
978-3-404-24368-6
€6.95?€: Euro
301
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel Fred Gambino  
Chevalier de l'empire terrien 2008-05-00 Poul Anderson L'Atalante (La Dentelle du Cygne) 978-2-84172-405-5   496
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
omni Olivier Vatine  
Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra 2010-12-00 Poul Anderson Baen 978-1-4391-3401-6
$13.00?$: US dollar
ix+
432
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
omni David Seeley Checkmark
Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra 2010-12-00 Poul Anderson Baen 978-1-4391-3401-6
$6.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
omni David Seeley Checkmark
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows 2011-09-29 Poul Anderson Gateway / Orion 978-0-575-10887-5
£4.99?£: UK pound
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
novel  
Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra 2012-03-00 Poul Anderson Baen 978-1-4516-3822-6
$7.99?$: US dollar
xi+
616
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
omni David Seeley Checkmark
Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra 2021-02-09 Poul Anderson Tantor Audio 978-1-5414-3985-6
$24.49?$: US dollar
 
digital audio download?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
omni  
Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra 2021-02-09 Poul Anderson Tantor Audio 979-820028205-0    
audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks
omni  
Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra 2021-03-01 Poul Anderson Tantor and Blackstone Publishing 979-820028207-4
$55.99?$: US dollar
 
audio MP3 CD?Compact disc with mp3-encoded audio tracks
omni  
Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra 2021-03-01 Poul Anderson Tantor and Blackstone Publishing 979-820028206-7
$65.99?$: US dollar
 
audio CD?Compact disc with standard audio tracks
omni  
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