Childe Cycle Series by Gordon R. Dickson, David W. Wixon

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  • Dorsai! (Childe Cycle #1)
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    Dorsai! (Childe Cycle #1)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 24 ratings · published 1960

    aka The Genetic GeneralThroughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art of war has made them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe. Donal Graeme is Dorsai, taller and harder than any ordinary man. But he is different as well, with talents that maze even his fellow Dorsai... more

  • Necromancer (Childe Cycle #2)
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    Necromancer (Childe Cycle #2)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 14 ratings · published 1962

    aka No Room for ManThroughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the art has made them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe.

  • Soldier, Ask Not (Childe Cycle #3)
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    Soldier, Ask Not (Childe Cycle #3)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 16 ratings · published 1964

    A Hugo Award-winning novel of destiny and revenge. On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had changed: men of War on the Dorsai worlds, men of Faith on the Friendly worlds. Jamethon Black, a Friendly, is a true soldier, and a true man of faith. Now he must face a deadly enemy--an enemy whose defeat will forever separate him from the only woman he has ever loved.

  • Tactics of Mistake (Childe Cycle #4)
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    Tactics of Mistake (Childe Cycle #4)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 16 ratings · published 1971

    It's obvious that Cletus Graeme--limping, mild-mannered scholarly--doesn't belong on a battling field, but instead at a desk working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics. But Bakhalla has more battlefields than libraries, and Graeme sees his small force of Dorsai--soldiers of fortune--as the perfect opportunity to test his theories. But if his theories or his belief in the Dorsai lead him astray, he's a dead man.

  • The Spirit of Dorsai (Childe Cycle #5)
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    The Spirit of Dorsai (Childe Cycle #5)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 14 ratings · published 1979

    Throughout the universe, the Dorsai are feared and respected as the most effective soldiers humanity has ever known. But the warrior spirit of the Dorsai does not, cannot, reside solely in the men of that race - for when the Dorsai go to fight wars on distant planets, it is the women who remain behind to defend their world and their future. The home planet of the Dorsai has never fallen to any invader, although many have tried.. more

  • Lost Dorsai (Childe Cycle #6)
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    Lost Dorsai (Childe Cycle #6)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 12 ratings · published 1980

    There are many legends on the planet of the Dorsai, the breeding ground for heroes. Here are two of them.Lost Dorsai: The New Dorsai Companion contains the Hugo Award winning novella, Lost Dorsai, and Dickson's classic short story "Warrior."Plus, the New Dorsai Companion contains, for the first time ever, an all new Concordance of the Childe Cycle--a roadmap of Dickson's massive and brilliant creation... more

  • The Final Encyclopedia (Childe Cycle #7)
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    The Final Encyclopedia (Childe Cycle #7)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 12 ratings · published 1984

    In The Final Encyclopedia the human race is split into three Splinter cultures: the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai. But now humanity is threatened by the power-hungry Others, whose triumph would end all human progress. Hal Mayne is an orphan who was raised by three tutors: an Exotic, a Friendly, and a Dorsai. He is the only human capable of uniting humanity against the Others. But only if he is willing to accept his terrifying destiny.. more

  • The Final Encyclopedia, 1 of 2 (Childe Cycle #7.1)
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    The Final Encyclopedia, 1 of 2 (Childe Cycle #7.1)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 3 ratings · published 1986

    The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition.In The Final Encyclopedia the human race is split into three Splinter cultures: the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai. But now humanity is threatened by the power-hungry Others, whose triumph would end all human progress... more

  • The Final Encyclopedia, Volume Two of Two (Childe Cycle #7.2)
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    The Final Encyclopedia, Volume Two of Two (Childe Cycle #7.2)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 6 ratings · published 1984

    The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition. In "The Final Encyclopedia" the human race is split into three Splinter cultures: the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai. But now humanity is threatened by the power-hungry Others, whose triumph would end all human progress... more

  • The Dorsai Companion (Childe Cycle #8)
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    The Dorsai Companion (Childe Cycle #8)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 4 ratings · published 1986

    Presents the shorter works of the series in one volume.

  • The Chantry Guild (Childe Cycle #9)
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    The Chantry Guild (Childe Cycle #9)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 10 ratings · published 1988

    A lone ship entering Earth space rouses Hal Mayne from his researches aboard the Final Encyclopedia. Piloting the craft is Dorsai Amanda Morgan, returning from her work with resistance fighters of the Younger Worlds, bearing terrible—though not unexpected—news:Bleys Ahrens, commanding the cross-cultural hybrids known as the Others, is tightening his deadly hold on the Younger Worlds, bleeding them of able adults and materials with which to build a space war fleet... more

  • Young Bleys (Childe Cycle #10)
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    Young Bleys (Childe Cycle #10)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 10 ratings · published 1991

    In the sequel to The Final Encyclopedia, Bleys Ahrens, raised alone by his unhappy Exotic mother and cast out from society, finds his niche in life with Dahno, his half-brother. Reprint. PW.

  • Other (Childe Cycle #11)
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    Other (Childe Cycle #11)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 6 ratings · published 1994

    Bleys Ahrens is now a political power on the planet Association, home of the Friendlies. His people--his Others, not Dorsai or Friendly or Exotic, but hybrids--are in place on all the new worlds, and are ready to take his message to the greater human public.But within his inner circle is Henry McLean, Soldier of God, and a True Faith-Holder. Henry fears for the soul of his nephew Bleys, and while he guards, he also watches, and judges... more

  • Antagonist (Childe Cycle #12)
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    Antagonist (Childe Cycle #12)

    Gordon R. Dickson, David W. Wixon

    · 2 ratings · published 2007

    Gordon R. Dickson's "Childe Cycle" of novels depicting the future of the human race has been one of the grand epics of science fiction.  At the time of his death in 2001, Dickson was writing Antagonist, the tale of Bleys Ahrens' turn toward darkness.  Now Dickson's assistant David W. Wixon has brilliantly finished the long-awaited book, working from Dickson's copious notes.  Antagonist is a fitting capstone to one of the most ambitious series in SF history... more

  • Star Road (Childe Cycle #13)
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    Star Road (Childe Cycle #13)

    Gordon R. Dickson

    · 3 ratings · published 1973

    Collection of short stories

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