Feared and respected as the most effective soldiers humanity has ever known, the Dorsai find their reputation at risk when an invader attacks their planet, inhabited only by the Dorsai women who are left behind to defend it. Reprint. AB.
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Details and character development GALORE!,
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This review is from: The Spirit of Dorsai (Dorsai/Childe Cycle) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book explains how did the old men, women and children defended the Dorsai world by themselves without Cletus Graeme in 'Tactics of Mistake', then fast forwards to the details of Kensie Graeme's Death and Ian Graeme's revenge of his brother in 'Dorsai!'.It also introduces us, by way of conversation, to Amanda ap Morgan, Hal Mayne, and the Final Encyclopedia. This book should be read after Dorsai!, and Tactics of Mistake for best enjoyment.
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for the betterment of mankind,
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This review is from: The Spirit of Dorsai (Dorsai/Childe Cycle) (Mass Market Paperback)
Mr. Dickson is well known in science fiction circles as a good writer, so I bought this book. It is interesting. The Dorsai are the inhabitants of a planet humans have colonized in their expansion across the galaxy. There is little to survive on, so the wherewithal to survive has to be imported and what is exported are mercenaries.
The book starts with a introduction to a female of a certain family, Amanda, and an off world questioner. He is curious about the history of the planet and she is the one with the answers. Her ancestors helped save and create the legacy the planet lives on. The first story is how the planet retained its independence. They were to be brought under the rule of Earth because the actions of one of the mercenaries was to be arrested as an excuse. The planet was inhabited by old, infirm, young, etc. (the healthy young were off fighting other's battles), yet they defeated the invaders. The second story is of the death of one of the more famous mercenary and how his twin brother exacted justice for him. The crux of the story is that some things need doing by certain people to further the ends of some esoteric group that hires the mercenaries for client planets. It is all for the betterment of mankind, but some bad things do need to happen to facilitate the path to greater good.
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Optional read in the Childe Cycle,
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This review is from: The Spirit of Dorsai (Dorsai/Childe Cycle) (Mass Market Paperback)
This book has to do with the struggle on Dorsaii prior to the time of Dorsaii (the book with that name). The heroine of this tale is good background information for Final Encyclopedia. I thought the book was a little dry, sexist, and primative. It is not one of the better books in the series. You could read this book at any point in the series since it is out of the timeline of the main storyline
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