Necromancer

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Author(s):

Gordon R Dickson

First Pub:

1962

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2019

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Chapters:

See 3

Book One - Isolate

Book Two - Set

Book Three - Pattern

Internal ID:

1626

Series:

<- Dorsai! - Soldier, Ask Not ->

Childe Cycle*

#2 of 12

Childe Cycle*

The Childe Cycle is an unfinished science fiction series by Gordon R Dickson.

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1) Dorsai!
2) Necromancer
3) Soldier, Ask Not
4) Tactics of Mistake
5) Spirit of Dorsai
6) Lost Dorsai
7) The Final Encyclopedia
8) Dorsai Companion
9) The Chantry Guild
10) Young Bleys
11) Other
12) Antagonist

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

The mine, generally speaking, was automatic.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

"I never make mistakes."

Comments:

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Added: 20-Apr-2015

Last Updated: 03-Apr-2023

Publications

01-Apr-1981

Ace

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Apr-1981

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.25

Pages*:

189

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1947

Publisher:

Ace

ISBN:

0-441-56851-3

ISBN-13:

978-0-441-56851-2

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Steve Hickman - Cover Artist

THE END OF REASON?

In the future, life on Earth is good. Disease is checked, hunger ended, war and suffering abolished. Justice is available for all and no man bends the will of another.

Walter Blunt would end this. His Chantry Guild carries this motto, "DESTRUCT!" and its power over the mystical Alternate Laws into the very heart of human society, with devastating effect. The unwilling instrument of the Guild's evil is Paul Formain, a cripple whose psychic skill with the Alternate Laws has marked him as Blunt's heir. Bot Formain, now frightened himself, has begun to suspect that his desire for this power stems from a soul no longer wholly his own....

NECROMANCER

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Notes and Comments:

First Ace printing: April 1981
First printing based on the number line

Wrap-around cover.

Author(s)

Gordon R Dickson
Birth: 01 Nov 1923 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Death: 31 Jan 2001 Richfield, Minnesota, USA

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