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Soldier, Ask Not

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1967
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29 Chapters
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 Childe Cycle*
#3 of 12
Childe Cycle*     See series as if on a bookshelf
The Childe Cycle is an unfinished science fiction series by Gordon R Dickson.

1) Dorsai!
2) Necromancer
3) Soldier, Ask Not
4) Tactics of Mistake
5) Spirit of Dorsai
6) Lost Dorsai
7) The Final Encyclopedia
8) Dorsai Companion
9) The Chantry Guild
10) Young Bleys
11) Other
12) Antagonist
Copyright ©, 1967, by Gordon R. Dickson
No dedication.
Menin aeida thea, Peleiadeo Achileos - begins the Iliad of Homer, and its story of thirty-four hundred years ago.
May contain spoilers
I watched them as I drove forward toward where they blended at last into open sky; and for a long time I heard the singing behind me, as I drove to the spaceport and the ship for Earth and Lisa that waited in the sunlight for me there.
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Added: 19-Apr-2015
Last Updated: 03-Dec-2021

Quotes

They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man.  These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, that absorbs him, bone and sinew and brain and hope and fear and dreams - and still calls for more.

Publications

 15-Nov-1975
DAW Books
Paperback
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Date Issued:
15-Nov-1975
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.50
Pages*:
223
Catalog ID:
UE1339
Pub Series #:
172
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1500
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-879-97339-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-879-97339-1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Kelly Freas  - Cover Artist
A DORSAI NOVEL

When mankind burst into the stars, the human psyche splintered - and humanity became many species, each a specialized overdevelopment of a single trait.

Tam Olyn was a trained news observer from Old Earth - a complete man.  To him the conflict between the fissuring worlds was at first a challenge, then a persoanl vendetta.

THE FRIENDLIES were his enemy... in them blind, fanatical Faith has become an all-abiding obsession.

THE DORSAI were warriors, born and bred, but they had not used their talents for self-glory but had placed them - for a price - at the service of others.

And when these two driving destructive talents of huanity met head on, Tam Olyn had a plan of his own for which cosmic humanity was not prepared.
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Notes and Comments:
Book spine indicates ISBN: 0879973990.

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15-Nov-1975
DAW Books
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Author(s)

 Gordon R Dickson
Birth: 01 Nov 1923 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Death: 31 Jan 2001 Richfield, Minnesota, USA

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