The Childe Cycle (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Gordon R. Dickson
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future history
- Time of Work: The late twenty-first century to the late twenty-fourth century
- Setting: Sixteen human-inhabited planets in eight star systems
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Future, Other worlds, Twenty-first century, Information science or systems, Superman or superbeings
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
The Childe Cycle (also known as the Dorsai Cycle) of novels and stories actually begins with Necromancer, in the later part of the twenty-first century, on an Earth ruled cautiously by the computers of the World Complex. Paul Formain, a one-armed mining engineer, resolves a stalemate between Kirk Tyne, head engineer of the World Complex, and Walter Blunt, head of the Chantry Guild. The Guild seeks the violent overthrow of the technocracy headed by Tyne. Formain manages to wrest control of the Guild from Blunt and send the human race out to the stars, something...
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