Antagonist
Dickson, Gordon R.
Wixon, David W.
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BOOK SUMMARY
Gordon R. Dicksons 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. Now D
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Gordon R. Dicksons 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. Now Dicksons assistant David W. Wixon has brilliantly finished the long-awaited book, working from Dicksons copious notes. Antagonist is a fitting capstone to one of the most ambitious series in SF history.
The Childe Cycle is the story of a new human evolution: the development of a real, hardwired sense of responsibility shared by all human beings. Donal Graeme was a Dorsai, a mercenary soldier, and also a mutant gifted with insight into the path forward for the human race. Through his gifts Donal would come to bend time and live three lifetimesand, in the process, run into problems he had not expected: first, his own flaws, and second, the existence of another mutant, Bleys Ahrens.
Following Young Bleys and Other, Antagonist advances the story of the formidably powerful Bleys Ahrens. Bleys is a man with a clear vision of the struggle in which hes involved--but an increasingly deficient sense of human values. He and his organization, the Others, are tracking down an elusive interplanetary opposition. Meanwhile, Bleys' own intricate conspiracies and devisings, and his quest for power, which began with the best of motives, have become something darker and fiercer.
He's committed to his plans. They may bring about the advent of Homo superior. And they may destroy the human race.
BOOK REVIEWS
Praise for Gordon R. Dickson and the Childe Cycle:
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Dickson is among the best storytellers we have ever hadone of the finest makers that our field has ever known. Poul Anderson
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One of science fictions most ambitious and far-reaching conceptsThe Childe Cycle is a vast structure, spanning a millennium from the historical fourteenth century to a fictional future in which the triune aspects of humanity will be united again in a form both superhuman and super-humane. David Drake, on the Childe Cycle
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The grandest saga in the history of science fiction! Ben Bova, on the Childe Cycle
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A great hero in a great story. Frank Herbert, on The Final Encyclopedia
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312853882
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312853884
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: 2006050929
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 432
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