The Final Encyclopedia

Gordon R. Dickson

Dec 2013 · Childe Cycle Book 7 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition. In The Final Encyclopedia the human race is split into three Splinter cultures: the Friendlies, fanatic in their faith; the truth-seeking Exotics; and the warrior Dorsai. But now humanity is threatened by the power-hungry Others, whose triumph would end all human progress. Hal Mayne is an orphan who was raised by three tutors: an Exotic, a Friendly, and a Dorsai. He is the only human capable of uniting humanity against the Others. But only if he is willing to accept his terrifying destiny...as savior of mankind. A towering landmark of future history, The Final Encyclopedia is a novel every SF fan needs to own.

Ratings and reviews

Each generation faces an existential threat which can only be met by personal, individual growth beyond that of those who've gone before. For us, it is our changing climate, and for the first time, that existential threat involves not an individual or a family or a clan or even a nation. It is the race at stake, and the human race must grow as a whole, or provide an answer to the value of the final variable in Drake's equation. Dickson gives us a blueprint.

One of best books I have ever read. This is My fourth reading,each separated by at least ten years. An intertaining and thoughtful call to freedom and exporation, as the very purpose of humanity.

Great book

About the author

Gordon Rupert Dickson was an American science fiction author. He was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota as a teenager. He is probably most famous for his Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight series. He won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award.