Childe Cycle
6 primary works • 12 total works
Book 3
Book 4
Book 7
Book 8
Book 9
Book 10
On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had changed, evolved into something that was slightly more than human...and slightly less. Men of War on the Dorsai worlds, men of Faith on the Friendly Worlds of Harmony and Association, men of Science, the Exotics of Kultis and Mara, and the Splinter cultures which had produced even stranger new talents. Those who knew said it was the Dorsai who supplied soldiers to the sixteen worlds. The Friendlies supplied cannon fodder, common soldiers who could be relied on to obey orders at all times. But even cannon fodder can sometimes produce genius. Jamethon Black is a true soldier, and a true man of faith. Now he must face a deadly enemy--an enemy whose defeat will forever separate Black from the only woman he has ever loved.
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.
IN THIS NOVEL, OUR HERO PASSES THROUGH THREE INCARNATIONS, DEVELOPING INTUITION AS MAN OF WAR, EMPATHY AS MAN OF PHILOSOPHY, AND CREATIVITY AS A MAN OF FAITH UNTIL HE ASSIMILIATES THE QUALITIES OF HIS TWIN ENEMY AND BECOMES THE FIRST RESPONSIBLE MAN, INTEGRATING THE UNCONSCIOUS/CONSERVATIVE AND THE CONSCIOUS/PROGRESS HALVES OF THE RACIAL PSYCHE WITHIN HIMSELF. 07/11/88 PROD LAUNCH--10000X64PX$3.99(15000X50P). A FORMAT.432PP.OFFSET.
Sequel to The Final Encyclopedia and newest in Dickson's masterpiece, The Childe Cycle. Disciplined by Friendlies, schooled by Exotics, Dahno builds an interplanetary network of half-breeds called "Others". But Dahno only wants wealth and power for himself, whereas his half-brother, Bleys, sees an opportunity to challenge the Dorsai for control of the Human Worlds.
Now a political power on the planet Association, home of the Friendlies, and with his Others in place on all the new worlds, Bleys Ahrens is ready to take his message to the greater human public. He will begin with New Earth itself, talking on its powerful Corporate rulers and equally powerful Guildmasters. Bleys knows that the true road to control of a world is through the hearts of its common people. 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. And outside Bleys Ahrens's control is Hal Mayne: the one man in all the human worlds who can challenge Bleys for control. For Hal Mayne is the true culmination of the Cycle's grand design. Bleys would give anything to convert Hal Mayne to his purpose, or failing that, to destroy him.