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Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, 1962.
Description
Life on Earth is good. Disease is checked, hunger ended, and war and suffering abolished, with liberty and justice and a high standard of living for all. But Paul Formain, a strangely gifted young engineer, doesn't believe a word of it. So he comes to Walter Blunt's Chantry Guild, whose motto is "Destruct " and whose stated goal is the end of civilization. There are Alternate Laws at work in the world, says the Chantry Guild; Walter Blunt has pledged his life to them, and to the principle of destruction as a positive force. Even more disturbingly, the Alternate Laws appear to work. After centuries of hope and progress, and the triumph of science, something strange is happening to mankind. And whatever it is, it's going to be big.
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LibraryThing member jimmaclachlan
There isn't much action in this book compared to the rest of the series & the philosophy is a bit weird, but the observations about society are fantastic. In some very interesting examples, he points out the craziness that happens when a society has everything it needs & no longer has to focus on
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survival. Sound familiar? It is. Amazingly so. There's also a brief look at what happens when a computer runs a society. Very interesting & worthwhile reading, even if you don't read any other book in the series. Show Less
LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
This book was also published as "No Room For Man". Dickson has created a good Dorsai story here. this is a prequel, in which Dickson sets up the psychological side of the divergent evolutionary stage that will face mankind.
LibraryThing member JalenV
I've read only through chapter 3 of Necromancer, and already I want to smack Paul F over the head. The man gets premonitions. He ignores one and lives to regret it. In chapter 3 he gets another one and ignores it as well. Does this twit have a death wish? I certainly hope he does something sensible
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soon, because so far I find it hard to respect him. Show Less
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Original publication date
1962
Physical description
191 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
9780812545302
Local notes
Childe Cycle, 2
DDC/MDS
| Fic SF Dickson |
Other editions
Necromancer by Gordon R. Dickson (Paper Book)