Life on Earth is good. Disease is checked, hunger ended, and war and suffering abolished, with liberty and justice and a high standard of living for all. But Paul Formain, a strangely gifted young engineer, doesn't believe a word of it. So he comes to Walter Blunt's Chantry Guild, whose motto is "Destruct!" and whose stated goal is the end of civilization. There are Alternate Laws at work in the world, says the Chantry Guild; Walter Blunt has pledged his life to them, and to the principle of destruction as a positive force. Even more disturbingly, the Alternate Laws appear to work. After centuries of hope and progress, and the triumph of science, something strange is happening to mankind. And whatever it is, it's going to be big. (from the back of the book)
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. (from an Amazon.com review)
A new and expanded companion to the Childe Cycle that no Dorsai fan will want to be without. The book contains an all new, complete Concordance to the Childe Cycle, the novella-length Lost Dorsai, and Dickson's classic short story "Warrior." (from an Amazon.com review)
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. (from an Amazon.com review)
Feared and respected as the most effective soldiers humanity has ever known, the Dorsai find their reputation at risk when an invader attacks their planet, inhabited only by the Dorsai women who are left behind to defend it. (from an Amazon.com review)
The Dorsai are feared throughout the Fourteen Worlds for their military prowess, and Donal Graeme, perhaps the most talented Dorsai of them all, is preparing to seek his fortune among the stars. (from an Amazon.com review)
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. (from an Amazon.com review)
Originally published in hardcover in 1984, The Final Encyclopedia explores the future history of mankind in which 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. Epic, brilliant and overwhelming, The Final Encyclopedia is a novel every SF fan needs to own. (from an Amazon.com review)
Originally published in hardcover in 1984, The Final Encyclopedia explores the future history of mankind in which 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. Epic, brilliant and overwhelming, The Final Encyclopedia is a novel every SF fan needs to own. (from an Amazon.com review)
Hal Mayne is lured away from important research aboard the Final Encyclopedia by the shattering news of the Younger Worlds' oncoming defeat--an inevitable triumph for the cross-cultural hybrids known as the Others. And on the planet Kultis, Hall will meet his ultimate challenge--and enter a battle that will alter mankind's destiny forever. (from an Amazon.com review)
