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Product Description: Gordon R. Dickson is probably best remembered for his Childe Cycle and Dragon Knight series, but he won the Hugo Award three times and the Nebula once. This is an engaging story. The editor of IF blurbed it coyly -- No conceivable force could penetrate Terri's shield...read more
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9781463896812 | Lightning Source Inc, June 30, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Gordon R.

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9781606644430 | Lightning Source Inc, May 31, 2011, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Gordon R.

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Product Description: 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.  At the time of his death in 2001, Dickson was writing Antagonist, the tale of Bleys Ahrens' turn toward darkness...read more
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9780312853884 | Tor Books, March 20, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Using his unique insight into the future of the human race, Donal Graeme, a mutant mercenary soldier, finds himself drawn into a potential confrontation with the powerful Bleys Ahrens, a mutant with an ever increasingly deficient sense of human values.

Paperback:

9780812521689 | Reprint edition (Tor Science Fiction, March 4, 2008), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Gordon R.

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9781439572504 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 11, 2008), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Gordon R.

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Filled with adventure, humor, and excitement, a thrilling trio of stories, by two science fiction masters, features Gremlins, Go Home, in which Baneen devises a plan so that he and his fellow gremlins can leave Earth and return to Gremla. Reprint.
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9780743488266 | Reprint edition (Baen Books, April 1, 2004), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Filled with adventure, humor, and excitement, a thrilling trio of stories, by two science fiction masters, features Gremlins, Go Home, in which Baneen devises a plan so that he and his fellow gremlins can leave Earth and return to Gremla.
9780743435697 | Baen Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Filled with adventure, humor, and excitement, a trio of novels by two science fiction masters features 'Gremlins, Go Home,' in which Baneen devises a plan so that he and his fellow gremlins can leave Earth and return to Gremla.
9780743435697 | Baen Books, December 1, 2002, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Filled with adventure, humor, and excitement, a trio of novels by two science fiction masters features 'Gremlins, Go Home,' in which Baneen devises a plan so that he and his fellow gremlins can leave Earth and return to Gremla.

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The powerful alien armadas that have conquered half the galaxy are suddenly confronted by a dangerous new obstacle to their goal of ultimate power--the tricky human inhabitants of a backwater planet called Earth. Original.
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9780743471749 | Baen Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The powerful alien armadas that have conquered half the galaxy are suddenly confronted by a dangerous new obstacle to their goal of ultimate power--the tricky human inhabitants of a backwater planet called Earth.

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Product Description: A Nebula Award-winning Author During an action on the third planet from Arcturus, soldier Cal Truent woke up in the hospital with a sixteen-hour hole in his memory. No one knows what it is that Cal has forgotten, but his superiors can't take the chance that it might be something deadly to his fellow soldiers -- and to Earth...read more
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9780786257362 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 1, 2003), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A Nebula Award-winning Author During an action on the third planet from Arcturus, soldier Cal Truent woke up in the hospital with a sixteen-hour hole in his memory.

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9780441560110 | Ace Books, June 1, 1980, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: A Nebula Award-winning Author During an action on the third planet from Arcturus, soldier Cal Truent woke up in the hospital with a sixteen-hour hole in his memory.

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Product Description: A Nebula Award-winning Author In the good old days they gave you a suit of armor and a mighty steed to rescue a maiden in distress. But John Tardy didn't know about this battle until he was in it. No suit of armor, no magnificent charger...read more
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9780786252213 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 2003), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A Nebula Award-winning Author In the good old days they gave you a suit of armor and a mighty steed to rescue a maiden in distress.

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9780812535488 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, May 1, 1987), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: John Tardy, a champion decathlon athlete, is recruited by Helping Hand to travel to the planet Dilbia and rescue Ty Lamorc, an envoy of the interplanetary contact agency

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Two important novels from the acclaimed Childe Cycle appear in an omnibus edition that contains Dorsai!, which chronicles the exploits of Donal Graeme, and The Spirit of Dorsai, which features the adventures of the female Dorsai Amanda Morgan. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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9780312877613 | Orb Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Two important novels from the acclaimed Childe Cycle appear in an omnibus edition that contains Dorsai!

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Product Description: One hundred years into the future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centurai III and discovers that all life, including humankind, is governed by the Throne World and Earth is only a primitive outpost, but one man from Earth will show the High-Born something unexpected...read more
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9780786246618 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: One hundred years into the future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centurai III and discovers that all life, including humankind, is governed by the Throne World and Earth is only a primitive outpost, but one man from Earth will show the High-Born something unexpected.

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9780671559625 | Reprint edition (Pocket Books, April 1, 1985), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: One hundred years into the future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centurai III and discovers that all life, including humankind, is governed by the Throne World and Earth is only a primitive outpost, but one man from Earth will show the High-Born something unexpected.

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Product Description: With most of the world wrapped in a hypnotic deep sleep, Rafe Harald arrives from the moon to find a friend and is shadowed by agents of the failing world government and a mysterious figure known as the Old Man. Reprint.
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9780786243389, titled "Sleepwalkers' World" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: With most of the world wrapped in a hypnotic deep sleep, Rafe Harald arrives from the moon to find a friend and is shadowed by agents of the failing world government and a mysterious figure known as the Old Man.

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9780671721619, titled "Sleepwalker's World" | Reprint edition (Baen Books, March 1, 1993), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Rafe Harald, a cosmonaut, attempts to combat the mysterious power that has put most of the human race into an involuntary sleep
9780812535563, titled "Sleepwalkers' World" | Tor Books, June 1, 1985, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Rafe Harald, a cosmonaut, attempts to combat the mysterious power that has put most of the human race into an involuntary sleep

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Two important novels from the acclaimed Childe Cycle appear in an omnibus edition that contains Dorsai!, which chronicles the exploits of Donal Graeme, and The Spirit of Dorsai, which features the adventures of the female Dorsai Amanda Morgan. 10,000 first printing.
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9780312877644 | 1 edition (Tor Books, June 1, 2002), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In 'Dorsai!

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On the planet Arcadia, a young man and woman and a swamp otter join together to haul the otter's eleven hundred pound statue overland to meet the deadline of a prospective buyer from another planet.
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9780783897646 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, January 1, 2002), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: On the planet Arcadia, a young man and woman and a swamp otter join together to haul the otter's eleven hundred pound statue overland to meet the deadline of a prospective buyer from another planet.

Paperback:

9780812535778 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, December 1, 1986), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A young space pioneer's efforts to sell the pieces of rock sculpture done by his swamp otter friend on the planet Arcadia has unexpected consequences for the whole planet

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Jim Eckert, the Dragon Knight, faces three new challenges--a plague caused by an invasion of shape-changing goblins, the arrival of the quarrelsome and ambitious Plantagenet dynasty, and a full-scale human-versus-goblin war. Reprint.
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9780312861605 | Tor Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Jim Eckert, the Dragon Knight, faces three new challenges-- a plague caused by an invasion of shape-changing goblins, the arrival of the quarrelsome and ambitious Plantagenet dynasty, and a full-scale human-versus-goblin war.

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9780812562729 | Tor Books, September 1, 2001, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Jim Eckert, the Dragon Knight, faces three new challenges--a plague caused by an invasion of shape-changing goblins, the arrival of the quarrelsome and ambitious Plantagenet dynasty, and a full-scale human-versus-goblin war.

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Human negotiators race against time to establish a relationship with the bearlike inhabitants of the planet Dilbia and win them over to the human side in the ever increasing conflict with their alien adversaries, the Hemnoids. Original.
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9780671319595 | Baen Books, December 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Desiring to live on planet Dilbia, humans find that their sharp thinking and logic are more likely than technology to win over the bearlike Dilbians and to keep the adversarial Hemnoids at bay.

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Dorsai Amanda Morgan has made it to earth with disturbing news--the Younger Worlds intend to attack Earth, unless she and mysterious Chantry Guild can prevent it. Reprint.
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9780812575590 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, April 1, 2000), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Dorsai Amanda Morgan has made it to earth with disturbing news--the Younger Worlds intend to attack Earth, unless she and mysterious Chantry Guild can prevent it.
9780441102761 | Reissue edition (Ace Books, May 1, 1989), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Amanda Morgan, a Dorsai warrior, warns Hal Mayne that Bleys Ahrens is strengthening his control of the Younger Worlds and asks Hal to help the Chantry Guild in opposing Ahrens

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On a distant planet far from Earth, a young human boy and his Hoka tutor are destined to fulfill an ancient prophecy that could have unexpected and deadly consequences. Original.
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9780671578589 | Baen Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: On a distant planet far from Earth, a young human boy and his Hoka tutor are destined to fulfill an ancient prophecy that could have unexpected--and deadly--consequences

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Shane, a linguist serving the aliens who have enslaved the Earth, has secretly invented a mysterious person called the Pilgrim, whose legend has inspired a planned human rebellion that Shane knows is doomed, in a new edition of a classic, award-winning novel. Reprint.
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9780441874866 | Ace Books, May 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After the conquest of Earth by the alien Aalaag, Shane Evert, the indomitable pilgrim who scrawls a symbol of defiance on the walls of Earth's cities, becomes the rallying point for the planet's rebels

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9780312866624 | 2 edition (Tor Books, July 1, 1999), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Shane, a linguist serving the aliens who have enslaved the Earth, has secretly invented a mysterious person called the Pilgrim, whose legend has inspired a planned human rebellion that Shane knows is doomed
9780441874873, titled "The Way of the Pilgrim" | Reissue edition (Ace Books, August 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: After the conquest of Earth by the alien Aalaag, Shane Evert, the indomitable pilgrim who scrawls a symbol of defiance on the walls of Earth's cities, becomes the rallying point for the planet's rebels

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The Dark Powers threaten proud King Arthur and his knights, as they reside under the sea in the land of Lyonesse, leading to a call for help to the Dragon Knight, Jim Eckert, and his friends. Reprint. AB.
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9780312861599 | Tor Books, October 1, 1998, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Mathematician Jim Eckert, who has come to live in magical medieval times and can become a dragon at will, becomes an unlikely ally of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

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9780812562712 | Tor Books, August 1, 1999, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Mathematician Jim Eckert, who has come to live in magical medieval times and can become a dragon at will, becomes an unlikely ally of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

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9780606170284, titled "Dragon in Lyonesse" | Demco Media, April 1, 1999, cover price $14.53 | About this edition: Mathematician Jim Eckert, who has come to live in magical medieval times and can become a dragon at will, becomes an unlikely ally of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

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Alexander Jones, a representative of the Interbeing League for the teddy-bear like Hoka species, finds his assignment challenging when the human-emulating Hokas are unable to discern Earth fact from fiction. Original. (view table of contents)
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9780671577742 | Baen Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Alexander Jones, a representative of the Interbeing League for the teddy-bear-like Hoka species, finds his assignment challenging when the human-emulating Hokas are unable to discern Earth fact from fiction
9780671577742 | Baen Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Alexander Jones, a representative of the Interbeing League for the teddy-bear-like Hoka species, finds his assignment challenging when the human-emulating Hokas are unable to discern Earth fact from fiction

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Mild-mannered and scholarly Cletus Graeme, a light colonel on assignment with the Allied forces, arrives on Bakhalla, where he commands a small force of Dorsai, soldiers of fortune who sell their lives in foreign wars to feed their families back home, and Graeme sees an opportunity to test his theories on them. Reprint.
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9780812545319 | Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, October 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Mild-mannered and scholarly Cletus Graeme, a light colonel on assignment with the Allied forces, arrives on Bakhalla, where he commands a small force of Dorsai, soldiers of fortune who sell their lives in foreign wars to feed their families back home, and Graeme sees an opportunity to test his theories on them.
9780441799787 | Reissue edition (Ace Books, August 1, 1986), cover price $4.50 | About this edition: 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.

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No race throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity is as feared as the Dorsai--ultimate warriors known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and their mastery of the art of war--making them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe. Reprint.
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9780812545302 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, September 1, 1998), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: No race throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity is as feared as the Dorsai--ultimate warriors known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and mastery of the art of war--making them the most valuable mercenaries in the known universe
9780441568567 | Reissue edition (Ace Books, December 1, 1991), cover price $3.99

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Jim Eckert travels to a parallel medieval world only to find that he can transform himself into a large dragon named Gorbash, and now as Baron de Bois de Malencontri et Riveroak, he must once again assume the shape of the dragon to save his enchanted realm. Reprint.
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9780312861575, titled "The Dragon and the Gnarly King" | Tor Books, August 1, 1997, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A young mathematician from Earth travels to a parallel medieval world of swords and magic where he gains the ability to transform himself into a dragon and now must save his son, who has been kidnapped by his sworn enemies

Paperback:

9780812562705 | Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, May 1, 1998, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Jim Eckert travels to a parallel medieval world only to find that he can transform himself into a large dragon named Gorbash, and now as Baron de Bois de Malencontri et Riveroak, he must once again assume the shape of the dragon to save his enchanted realm.

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Venturing out on a supposedly simple quest to the Holy Land, the Dragon Knight encounters such unexpected challenges as pirates, sea giants, and the legendary Djinn, all of which threaten to make his voyage the most dangerous quest known to man or dragon. Reprint.
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9780441002979 | Ace Books, January 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Continues the adventures of Jim Eckert, a twentieth-century American mathematician transformed into a fourteenth-century English baron

Paperback:

9780441004959 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, January 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Continues the adventures of Jim Eckert, a twentieth-century American mathematician transformed into a fourteenth-century English baron

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Earth has been contacted by galactic civilization, and Tom and his wife, Lucy, seem to be the perfect candidates to tour the galaxy as Earth's representatives and learn the ways of the galaxy, but on their performance hinges Earth's relations with other civilizations. Reprint. AB.
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9780671876647 | Pocket Books, June 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Representing the Earth for galactic civilization during an interstellar tour, diplomat Tom Parent and his linguist wife, Lucy, realize that their acceptance is crucial and are alarmed when Lucy is diagnosed as a Wilf--whatever that is

Paperback:

9780671877194 | Reissue edition (Baen Books, September 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Representing the Earth for galactic civilization during an interstellar tour, diplomat Tom Parent and his linguist wife, Lucy, realize that their acceptance is crucial and are alarmed when Lucy is diagnosed as a Wilf--whatever that is

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Sir James, the Dragon Knight, faces his most terrifying challenge in the nearly indestructible Hollow Men, spirits of the dead who reside in empty suits of armor. Reprint. LJ.
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9780441342334 | Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1992, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The sequel to 'The Dragon Knight' chronicles the adventures of Sir James--the Dragon Knight--as he battles the Hollow Men, vengeful spirits of the dead that appear as hollow suits of armor and that can regenerate themselves

Paperback:

9780441166572 | Reissue edition (Ace Books, July 1, 1997), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Chronicles the adventures of Sir James, the Dragon Knight, as he battles the Hollow Men, vengeful spirits of the dead that appear as hollow suits of armor and that can regenerate themselves

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Hal Mayne, an orphan raised by three tutors, one from each of the human race's three splinter cultures, is the only person capable of uniting humanity against the ruthless Others
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9780312862893 | Rev sub edition (Tor Books, February 1, 1997), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Hal Mayne, an orphan raised by three tutors, one from each of the human race's three splinter cultures, is the only person capable of uniting humanity against the ruthless Others
9780312862886 | Rev sub edition (Tor Books, January 1, 1997), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Hal Mayne, an orphan raised by three tutors, one from each of the human race's three splinter cultures, is the only person capable of uniting humanity against the ruthless Others
9780312932411 | Tor Books, October 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: As the Splinter Cultures return to hostile and war-torn Earth, the Dorsai are given the task of preparing for the return and initiating the reintegration of human culture after two millenia of fragmentation

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9780312861865 | Reprint edition (Orb Books, January 1, 1997), cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Hal Mayne, an orphan raised by three tutors, one from each of the human race's three splinter cultures, is the only person capable of uniting humanity against the ruthless Others
9780312861889 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, January 1, 1997), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Hal Mayne, an orphan raised by three tutors, one from each of the human race's three splinter cultures, is the only person capable of uniting humanity against the ruthless Others
9780441237777 | Reissue edition (Ace Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R.

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