New Releases by Gordon R. Dickson

The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson''s future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition. In The Final Encyclopedia the human race is 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 his terrifying destiny...as savior of mankind. A towering landmark of future history, The Final Encyclopedia is a novel every SF fan needs to own.

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.

In a hidden labyrinth beneath the Canadian wilderness, dwarfish lords and ladies ride humans like horses and plot the downfall of mankind. But Bart Dybig, a steed gifted with unusual abilities, vows to surprise his captors and escape to the world above and thwart his enemies'' plans.

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.

Collection consists of one photocopy of the typescript "Lifeboat," written by Gordon R. Dickson and Harry Harrison. The manuscript bears corrections, and is 278 pages (72,000 words). The manuscript is undated but notes on the first page mention a due date of the summer of 1974.

Stories consider in detail the reaction of society to a unique and astonishing, even a miracle, and all three stories deal with many facets in a single concept.

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.