Necromancer (Dorsai/Childe Cycle)
 

Necromancer (Dorsai/Childe Cycle)

by Gordon R. Dickson


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... (read more)

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  • Rated 2 stars

The Chantry Guild is a strange cult that seeks to cure the world of its dependence on technology - by destroying it. Paul Formain, a young man who has suffered a couple of inexplicable life-threatening accidents is drawn to the Guild after reading their claims of the power of their Alternate Laws - which purportedly includes limb regrowth.

I remembered Gordon R Dickson as being an author whose stories I used to enjoy, although it's many years since I've read any, so I was rather...

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