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	Gordon R. Dickson
		The Childe Cycle, a twelve volume epic which spans a period of time from the early fourteenth to the late twenty-fourth century represented his vision of humanity's evolutionary potential.
		Child ordered a book and returned it with a letter to this company indicating that half of the pages was missing.
		Child was convicted for kidnapping a child whose name was allegedly the author of the same book, for which Mr.
	www.iit.edu /~rilecyn/GordonR_Dickson.htm (1094 words)

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		The lengthy Childe Cycle, or Dorsai sequence, which Dickson regarded as his life's work, is infused with an offbeat personal mysticism that transcends pulp-SF superman fantasies.
		The Childe Cycle features a series of latent supermen who slowly realise their ability to direct history, and the necessary compassion and responsibility needed to accompany such talent.
		Plans to extend the Childe Cycle backward, with trilogies of historical and contemporary novels, never came to fruition; this ambitious and often impressive sequence seemingly lost its way and remains unfinished.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4135887,00.html (691 words)

	Dorsai
		The Childe Cycle is an unfinished series of science fiction novels by Gordon R. Dickson.
		While, on the face of it, the Childe Cycle is a science fiction series, it is also an allegory.
		As originally envisioned, the Cycle was to stretch from the 14th century to the 24th century; the completed books begin in the 21st century.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Childe_Cycle.php (1790 words)

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		The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, a poem by Robert Browning, which provided considerable inspiration for elements in Dickson's magnum opus.
		While, on the face of it, the Childe Cycle is a science fiction series, it is also an allegory.
		As originally envisioned, the Cycle was to stretch from the 14th century to the 24th century; the completed books begin in the 21st century.
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	DICKSON, Gordon R. - personal data
		The last part of the quad is familiarly known as the Dorsai Cycle (a term Gordy disliked) and appeared first as (1)The Genetic General (later aka Dorsai); (2)Necromancer; (3)Soldier, Ask Not; and (4)Tactics of Mistake.
		The first and last novels of the Cycle were to be Hawkwood, a historical novel, and Childe.
		The concept for Childe Cycle's was the advancement of Renaissance thinking in isolated segments known as Splinter Cultures which were to be brought together sometime in the future after being fully evolved by each of the mono-maniac splinters.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/dickson.html (567 words)

	Antagonist \| Book Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		In Gordon Dickson's massive Childe Cycle future history—about which more below—the main "realtime" 24th-century plot had been recently carried forward, up to the point of Dickson's death in 2001, by The Final Encyclopedia (1984) and The Chantry Guild (1988), whose dueling avatars of historical forces were Hal Mayne and Bleys Ahrens.
		Their struggle, and the Cycle's vast sweep across the centuries, reputedly would have concluded in a volume to be called Childe, which has never appeared.
		But then the realities of what was marketable, what the author was capable of writing and the unpredictable exfoliations of the author's ideas gained the upper hand, and what we readers were left with were zero historical novels, zero mimetic novels and 10 related volumes of SF (with Antagonist being number 11).
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/sfw15317.html (961 words)

	The SF Site: Climbing the Tower Part Four: The Dark Tower
		Stephen King's career as a writer is a geography of cultural regurgitation, a collision of pulp and palpability, a collusion between popular and critical sensibilities, a talent that is as comfortable going for "the gross-out" as publishing award-winning stories in The New Yorker.
		The Dark Tower cycle is on the one hand a "single novel," to quote King's view on the matter, but it is also a sort of justification for everything else here referred to that King has written.
		The dialogue this series will raise ought to be one of inclusion, not exclusions, ways in which the sanctimonious on either side can set aside the cynicism and pretentiousness long enough to consider, for a change, what's actually happening on the pages of works dismissed on name recognition alone.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/climbing08.htm (1455 words)

	Amazon.ca: Other: Books: Gordon R Dickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Dickson returns to his monumental Childe Cycle, begun in 1957, with a sequel to Young Bleys (1991).
		So while the book is readable and entertaining to some extent, this almost total lack of drama or suspense very much hamstrings the book and destroys whatever momentum it has, you keep turning the pages through essential inertia and not because of the burning need to see what happens next.
		Gordon R. Dickson's Childe Cycle, sometimes called the 'Dorsai novels' is truly one of the great works of Science Fiction.
	www.amazon.ca /Other-Gordon-R-Dickson/dp/0812515994 (1443 words)

	Lorem Ipsum: Comment on Song of Childe Roland Ballads
		December 30, 2005 07:16 PM And then there's Dickson's Childe cycle, but that's yet another genre...
		December 30, 2005 11:22 PM I enjoyed this post, not least because it neatly encapsulates a series of pieces of information I have likewise had to disentangle over the years.
		MacNeice said: 'The Dark Tower was suggested to me by Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came', a work that does not admit of a completely rational analysis and still less adds up to any clear moral or message.
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	Camelot's Killers: Gordon Dickson's Rhetorical Cleansing of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Dickson's original plan for the Childe Cycle (also known as the Dorsai series) consisted of three historical novels (beginning with the story of a fourteenth century military man), three novels set in the present, and six science fiction novels.
		In the halls of the chivalric knights, the Childe, the knight-to-be, paces, lambent with charisma.
		Dickson, Gordon R. "The Childe Cycle: Status 1979." SFWA Bulletin 14.3 (1979): 65-75.
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	Antagonist – A SCI FI Essential Book \| SCIFI.COM
		in 1960 to Other (Tor, 1994), 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.
		The story of the Childe Cycle is the story of a new human evolution: the development of a real, hardwired sense of "responsibility" shared by all human beings.
		Donal Graeme was a Dorsai, a mercenary soldier, and also a mutant gifted with insight into the path forward for the human race.
	www.scifi.com /essentials/antagonist (1009 words)

	Amazon.de: Dorsai (Childe Cycle): English Books: Gordon R. Dickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		This is first of the Childe Cycle novels.
		In the future mankind has splint in several splinter cultures, which the Dorsai are but one.
		But I've always been a sci-fi nut and there must be other women out there...this is for you.
	www.amazon.de /Dorsai-Childe-Cycle-Gordon-Dickson/dp/0812503988 (767 words)

	Amazon.ca: Lost Dorsai: Books: Gordon R Dickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		The Concordance will let you know not only in which books or stories a person or place is mentioned, but will give you a brief history or biography that explains their significance in the Cycle.
		Like "The Spirit of Dorsai" before, this volume fills in some elements of the overall Cycle and gives us some insight into some of the smaller details, but if you skip it you really won't be missing out on too much when you consider the overall picture.
		My version also has a medium size essay by a SF critic that is mostly gushing praise (some of it deserved, though at points it gets a little much) but also makes an attempt to bring up themes and such in the Cycle that even Dickson might not have originally envisioned.
	www.amazon.ca /Lost-Dorsai-Gordon-R-Dickson/dp/0812504046 (1417 words)

	Childe Cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At least one of the contemporary novels was expected to deal with issues of space colonization, beginning a thread continuing through Necromancer and concluding with the full formation of the Splinter Cultures.
		The first published reference to the Dorsai came in Lulungomeena, a short story published in 1954, in Galaxy Magazine and later dramatized on the X Minus One radio program.
		Other Splinter Cultures include the hard scientists of Newton and Venus, the miners of Coby, the fishermen of Dunnin's World, the engineers of Cassida, the Catholic farmers of St. Marie, and the merchants of Ceta.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Childe_Cycle (2280 words)

	Book Review #1 by Eric Weeks
		Gordon R. Dickson is best known for his many volume Childe Cycle series (also known as the Dorsai series, after one of the most popular books in the series).
		Dickson clearly writes this sort of novel well, novels centering around one male person who has more drive and willpower than those around him, and thus is able to accomplish wonderful things by organizing those around him and taking actions others are too timid to contemplate.
		In the Childe series novels, these characters are serving a larger purpose of advancing Dickson's vast future history and illuminating what Dickson sees as important human values and characteristics.
	www.physics.emory.edu /~weeks/if/review1.html (1610 words)

	Tor and Forge Books: Antagonist: Books: Gordon R. Dickson, Gordon R. Dickson
		Gordon R. Dickson was the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of many classics of fantasy and science fiction, most famously the Childe Cycle, which included such novels as Tactics of Mistake, The Chantry Guild, The Final Encyclopedia, Young Bleys, and Other.
		Two cornerstone novels of the acclaimed “Childe Cycle” return to print in an omnibus edition—with an introduction by David...
		The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny.
	www.tor-forge.com /antagonist (708 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Necromancer / Gordon R. Dickson
		GORDON R. Dickson's second novel in his epoch-spanning Childe Cycle (which, like most of them, can be read as a stand-alone story) is a much different piece of work than its predecessor, Dorsai!
		Paul's ultimate solution to the whole crisis might seem facile in a rational universe like our own; but in the strange reality of the Childe Cycle universe it may be the only possible solution.
		Necromancer is an immensely satisfying piece of entertainment that lays the groundwork for the rest of Dickson's Dorsai saga, and showcases the vivid imagination and burgeoning storytelling skills that were to make him one of SF's major players in later years.
	www.sfreviews.net /necromancer.html (590 words)

	Gordon Dickson's Childe Cycle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Each child's growth in body, mind and spirit retraces that immeasurably ancient racial archetype, the Way.
		There's very little obfuscation here, as there is with the main character of The Final Encyclopedia, who seems throughout that book to be permanently lost, distant from humanity, and never to realize the fact.
		Too bad; Bleys is a good character, arguably the best in the Childe Cycle, with the exceptions of Cletus and Donal Grahme.
	www.io.com /~spencer/Books/childe.html (1436 words)

	CD Baby: GORDON R. DICKSON: Shai Dorsai!
		The novels that make up Gordon R. Dickson's Childe Cycle paint an epic picture of the separation of humanity into various "Splinter Cultures" and their eventual reunification into a more evolved and ethical race.
		Indeed, the Childe Cycle is commonly called "the Dorsai series".
		The phrase, "Shai Dorsai!" ("real" or "true Dorsai"), is a salute to those who embody the Dorsai ideal of the ethical warrior, willing to pay with his life to buy freedom for his people.
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	Amazon.com: Other (Childe Cycle): Books: Gordon R. Dickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Young Bleys (Childe Cycle) by Gordon R. Dickson
		Gordon R. Dickson's Childe Cycle, sometimes called the 'Dorsai novels' is truly one of the great works of Science Fiction.
		To the best of my knowledge, Dickson never followed this book up and thus never really completed the Childe Cycle, which is an incredibly disappointing thing because it was heading toward an ending of some sort.
	www.amazon.com /Other-Childe-Cycle-Gordon-Dickson/dp/0812515994 (1782 words)

	3rd Generation Rubber Crumb Surfaces, Multi Use Games Area
		Pupils at Lacon Childe Sports College in Cleobury Mortimer, near Kidderminster are benefiting from the recently completed sports facility by Kestrel (Contractors) Limited.
		Cricket practice nets and a skateboard facility park and ramps were also constructed completing the overhaul of the college’s facilities.
		Therefore the site at Lacon Childe comprised of natural sports pitch construction, artificial and natural cricket net construction plus the construction of two multi use games areas and a 3rd Generation hockey and football surface.
	www.kestrelcontractors.co.uk /LaconChildeSchool.php (394 words)

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		"The book is actually the next step in the series that Gordy called the Childe Cycle and which some people refer to as the Dorsai series (a misnomer)," Wixon said in an interview.
		All in all, I'd say that I had read every book he wrote during that quarter-century at least six times by the time they were put into print," Wixon said.
		The entire story of the Childe Cycle is huge and wide-ranging, Wixon said.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/index.php?id=35501 (566 words)

	dickson
		My favorite Dickson novels are the ones from the "Childe Cycle," especially, "Tactics of Mistake." This is another book I read to pieces.
		His first story was a collaboration with Poul Anderson, "Trespass!", published in Fantastic Story Quarterly in 1950, and his first novel was Alien from Arcturus in 1956.
		His most noted works were a series of novels known as the "Childe Cycle" or "Dorsai" series, describing mankind's expansion into the Galaxy.
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	The Eternal Golden Braid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		The Childe Cycle: Status 1984: My first encounter with Dickson's Childe Cycle was in Soldier, Ask Not.
		I don't think that edition made it clear that it was part of a larger body of work (and a later volume in that body as well).
		Perhaps now, given the popularlity of works such as Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, Dickson would have found a receptive audience.
	theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com /2006/12/dickson-dickson-gordon-r.html (424 words)

	Gordon R. Dickson Message Board
		can anyone please let me know what the chonological order of the childe cycle is. I am referring to the time order "in" the books, not necessarily the print order though that would be appreciated as well.
		After reading the Fair Maid of Kent I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next (his books are very addictive) and when the next book in the series was going to come out.
		I haven't encountered very many writers that could draw me into the story and leave me carving more to the extent that he was able to.
	www.allreaders.com /Board.asp?BoardID=3133 (615 words)

	Books, Listed by Author
		* _The Final Encyclopedia (Ace 0-441-23776-2, Oct ’85 [Sep ’85], $4.95, 696pp, pb) [Childe Cycle] Reprint (Tor 1984) sf novel in the “Childe Cycle.” The print has been shot down from the hardcover and is microscopic.
		* _The Final Encyclopedia, Volume 2 (Tor/Orb 0-312-86188-5, Feb ’97 [Jan ’97], $16.95, 350pp, tp, cover by Michael Whelan) [Childe Cycle] Reprint (Tor 1984) of the second half of the SF novel in the “Childe” saga.
		This omits the 1980 afterword by Sandra Miesel and includes excerpts from “A Childe Cycle Concordance” by David W. Wixon.
	www.locusmag.com /index/b140.html (2881 words)

	Dorsai! by Dickson - Used Books At Biblio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		This is the first book in the long-lived Childe Cycle.
		Originally published in 1960--in a slightly different version under the title "The Genetic General"--this book introduces the Dorsai, a race of soldiers, and Donal Greame, a man who is, to all eyes, the pinnacle of the genetic experiment that produced the Dorsai.
		In this collection of linked stories--the fifth book in the Childe Cycle--the women of the Dorsai homeworld find their planet threatened by an alien invasion.
	www.biblio.com /search.php?author=Dickson&title=Dorsai!&stage=1&aid=scifan (823 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Dorsai! / Gordon R. Dickson
		Yet this fortysomething first novel in the cycle is a pretty dated affair that, though extremely readable, is harmed by an unlikable protagonist and some embarrassing gender issues.
		doesn't really start delivering the goods until its last seventy-odd pages, when the interestingly crafted politics of the Childe Cycle universe are made clearer and you can feel like you finally have a stake in the tale.
		But there are other lesser problems always nibbling at you, such as prose that's sometimes so pretentious it's turgid.
	www.sfreviews.net /dorsai.html (738 words)

	Series List
		Track of the White Wolf (n.) DAW 1987
		Child of the Phoenix (n.) HarperCollins UK 1992
		The Fate of the Phoenix (ss) Weight Watchers Magazine 1993; sequel to Child of the Phoenix.
	www.locusmag.com /index/f12.html (673 words)

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