DORSAI!
Not all the other worlds of men combined would date to try conclusions with that one world of soldiers born and bred.
DORSAI!
More than wealth, more than fame, more than beauty, that name sets them apart from ordinary humanity.
DORSAI!
But though it is the heritage of them all, still it belongs more to one certain individual than all the rest.  His name is Donal Graeme.  He is the ultimate, perfect man of war.  This is his story.
DORSAI!

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

A DORSAI NOVEL

When mankind burst into the stars, the human psyche splintered - and humanity became many species, each a specialized overdevelopment of a single trait.

Tam Olyn was a trained news observer from Old Earth - a complete man.  To him the conflict between the fissuring worlds was at first a challenge, then a persoanl vendetta.

THE FRIENDLIES were his enemy... in them blind, fanatical Faith has become an all-abiding obsession.

THE DORSAI were warriors, born and bred, but they had not used their talents for self-glory but had placed them - for a price - at the service of others.

And when these two driving destructive talents of huanity met head on, Tam Olyn had a plan of his own for which cosmic humanity was not prepared.

One man, one world, against all comers.

It's obvious that Cletus Graeme - limping, mild-mannered, scholarly - doesn't belong on a battlefield.  He's published three books on strategy and tactics, and is working on his fourth: doubtless a worthy pursuit, but hardly practical.

But Graeme has come to Bakhalla as a light colonel on assignment with the Allied forces there.  And at that moment, Bakhalla has a lot more battlefields than it has libraries.  There's a nasty little war going on, as Bakhalla fights for survival against the massed troops of its neighbor, the Coalition-backed colony of Neuland.

For Cletus Graeme, it's ideal.  He commands a small force of Dorsai, soldiers of fortune who sell their lives in foreign wars to feed their families back home.  Graeme sees in them a spark of greatness, a 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 their day, Isaac Asimov's future of the Foundations and Robert Heinlein's of the 'Future History' seemed impressively complex and real.  Quietly, Gordon Dickson has been building a future of his own that is far more logical, more humanly real, and with a stronger philosophical foundation than either of those classics." - Analog

A WOMAN OF THE DORSAI!

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...

Through three generations, Amanda Morgan has embodied the best of the Dorsai: the selfless courage, keen intelligence, and unconquerable soul.  She is more than one lone woman.  She is...
THE SPIRIT OF DORSAI
A novel of the Chylde Cycle

"Some of the finest writing Dickson has ever done, and the heroine is arguably his best piece of characterization and one of the half-dozen best female characters in science fiction or fantasy."
- Booklist

Pacifism will always be a powerful moral force, even - perhaps especially - to the Dorsai.  For those on this planet of warriors born and bred are not as other men; once a Dorsai's heart is given he holds nothing back, and does not count the cost.  Even if that cost be the very planet of his birth, and he becomes a
Lost Dorsai.

This is the newest work in Gordon R. Diskson's Childe Cycle.  This volume also includes the Dorsai novelet "Warriors," and a lauditory afterword by noted sf critic, Sandra Miesel.

FIRST MASS MARKET EDITION!

The "Chile Cycle," Gordon R. Dickson's future history about the ultimate destiny of humankind, moves toward the exciting conclusion with this latest volume.

The human race has 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 the terrible destiny of... Savior of mankind.

"Makes me want to stand up and cheer!"
-ANALOG

THE GRANDEST SAGA IN
THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION." - Ben Bova

Only one thing could lure Hal Mayne away from his research aboard the Final Encyclopedia.  It was the shattering news of the Younger Worlds' oncoming defeat - an inevitable triumph for the cross-cultural hybrids known as the Others.

To save Earth's future on space.  Hal must journey to the planet Kultis, where the powerful Alternate Forces have been mastered by the top secret Chantry Guild.  There Hal Mayne will meet his greatest challenge and ultimate fate - one that will alter mankind's destiny forever...

THE CHANTRY GUILD
At last, Gordon R. Dickson returns to the exciting world of his epic masterwork, the "Chylde Cycle."  A brilliant evolutionary saga that has been praised worldwide...

"MAKES ME WANT TO STAND UP AND CHEER!" - ANALOG

"SINCE THE BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER, DICKSON HAS BEEN... PROVIDING READERS WITH SOME OF SCIENCE FICTION'S FINEST MOMENTS." - OMNI

YOUNG BLEYS is the newest volume in Gordon R. Dickson's masterpiece, "The Childe Cycle," a future history that has been thrilling readers for more than three decades.

By the workings of chance Bleys Ahrens was born the genetic equal of Hal Mayne, the hero of The Final Encyclopedia, but he was destined by nurture to a far different fate.  Raised alone by his unhappy Exotic mother, Bleys was an outcast from every society until his half-brother Dahno claimed him.

Disciplined by Friendlies, schooled by Exotics, Dahno was beginning to build an interplanetary network of half-breeds, who called themselves "Others."  But Dahno thought only of gaining wealth and power for himself; Bleys saw an opppor-tunity to challenge the Dorsai for control of the Human Worlds.

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.

And beyond Bleys Ahrens' control is Hal Mayne: the one man in all the human worlds who might successfully challenge Bleys in his bid for power.  For Hal Mayne is the true culmination of the Cycle's grand design.  Bleys would give anything to convert Hal Mayne to his cause—or failing that, to destroy him.

"Machinations and intrigues abound, including kidnapping, drugging and threats, but Dickson's presentation is so balanced that even readers unfamiliar with Mayne's role in this series may sympathize more with him than with Ahrens.... And so the Cycle rotates on, never less than interesting." - Publishers Weekly

A CAPSTONE
TO AN SF EPIC

Donal Graeme was a Dorsai, a mercenary soldier, and also a mutant gifted with insight into the path forward for the human race.  Through his gifts, Graeme would come to bend time and live three lifetimes - and, in the process, run up against the existence of another mutant, Bleys Ahrens.

Like Graeme, Ahrens has a clear vision of the struggle in which he's involved - but, unfortunately, much less of a sense of human values.  Ahrens and his organization, the Others, are tracking down an elusive interplanetary opposition - but his own personal quest for power, which began with the best motives, has become something darker and more fierce.

Ahren's devisings may bring about the advent of Homo superior.  And they may destroy the human race.