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Soldier, Ask Not

af Gordon R. Dickson

Serier: Childe Cycle (3)

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I think this book isbetter than Necromancer, but is not as good as Tactics of Mistake. Tam Olyn's character is a little too insistant on his integrity, especially regarding his objectivity. The validity of faith is finally affirmed at the end, while, for the most part its value is drown in Olyn's perspective. The ending is a little pat, and Olyn's obsession a bit transparent, but the inside depiction of the Friendlies is indespensible to the Childe Cycle. It's possible that even this small group of reporters ... a group that can synthesize the splinters. ( )
  darlingtrk | May 3, 2009 |
See Tactics of Mistake. ( )
  TadAD | Jun 23, 2008 |
This book is very much of its time (originally published in 1967). It tells its story from the perspective of a man who is nearly completely amoral, indifferent to the needs of anyone else except how it impacts his own needs. Unfortunately he tells his story in a very flat, nearly monotonous fashion as little he faces causes him to become enthusiastic or fearful or sympathetic. It's taken me a good 30 years to finally finish it because it is exactly the kind of thing I don't like; I only bothered to keep trying because it's considered a classic. I think it deserves the accolade 'classic' because it was revolutionary when it was first published, but nowadays it would have a difficult time finding a market. ( )
  cabri | Jun 10, 2008 |
This book is a little different, in that the superman depicted is in this case a supervillain. With his basic supermanipulationcharisma abilities he isn't throwing cars around, but can cause some really bad military conflicts.

Set in the 23rd century, that are quite a few colonised worlds and a few different cultural/political groupings for him to cause havoc on as the Dorsai and others try to stop him.

http://superprose.blogspot.com/2007/0... ( )
  bluetyson | Feb 15, 2007 |
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On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had changed, evolved into something that was slightly more than human...and slightly less. Men of War on the Dorsai worlds, men of Faith on the Friendly Worlds of Harmony and Association, men of Science, the Exotics of Kultis and Mara, and the Splinter cultures which had produced even stranger new talents.

Those who knew said it was the Dorsai who supplied soldiers to the sixteen worlds. The Friendlies supplied cannon fodder, common soldiers who could be relied on to obey orders at all times.

But even cannon fodder can sometimes produce genius. Jamethon Black is a true soldier, and a true man of faith. Now he must face a deadly enemy--an enemy whose defeat will forever separate Black from the only woman he has ever loved.

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