Series
Childe Cycle
Gordon R. Dickson & David W. Wixon · 9 novels · 4 novellas · 2 short stories · 4 collections · 1957–2007
The Childe Cycle is an unfinished series of science fiction novels by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. The name Childe Cycle is an allusion to "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", a poem by Robert Browning, which provided inspiration for elements in the work. The series is sometimes referred to as the Dorsai series, after the Dorsai people who are central to it. The related short stories and novellas all center on the Dorsai, primarily members of the Graeme and Morgan families.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(4 editions)
Map
Childe Cycle at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s2
- 1960s4
- 1970s4
- 1980s5
- 1990s3
- 2000s1
Shape
9 novels · 4 novellas · 2 short stories · 4 collections
2 authors
reads like:science fictionwarother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book18 of 19 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Necromancerdarkest
- Young Bleysbrightest
- The Chantry Guildcalmest
- Soldier, Ask Notmost intense