SCIENCE FICTION-THE BLACK CLAD MERCENARIES OF THE FRIENDLY PLANETS FOUGHT WHERE THEIR EMPLOYER AND THEIR GOD DICTATED.ON NEW EARTH THEY PITTED THEIR FANATICISM AGAINST THE COLD COURAGE OF THE DORSAI.AND THE IMPLACABLE HATRED OF ONE MAN,TAM OLYN.OLYN SAW HIS BROTHER IN LAW SHOT DOWN BEFORE HIS EYES.HIS QUEST FOR VENGEANCE TOOK HIM ACROSS HALF THE CIVILISED WORLDS,TO CASSIDA AND FRIELAND,TO ST.MARIE AND BACK TO NEW EARTH.HE MET MEN OF ALL THE SPLINTER GROUPS INTO WHICH MANKIND HAD EVOLVED AND HE USED THEMALL TO BRING ABOUT HIS REVENGE-UNTIL PADMA THE EXOTIC TAUGHT HIM HOW TO USE HIS SPECIAL POWERS-AND THE FRIGHTENING KNOWLEDGE OF THE FINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA.
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Gordon R. Dickson was the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author of many classics of fantasy and science fiction, most famously the "Childe Cycle" (also known as the "Dorsai" series). He died in 2001.
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