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Posted by Brian Whisenhunt (Member # 1095) on :
 
I'm just curious, has there been any attempt by the Usefull Idiots at the studios to acquire rights to Gordon Dicksons' Dorsai novels?

Second, How does the Sci-Fi Continuum feel about the series? High points? Low points. Abaddon's points?
 

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Posted by Hunter (Member # 611) on :
 
Not as far as I can tell. Tri-star apparently had the rights to the Hoka series and were going to develop a movie based on that, but a change in managment saw it fall thorugh.

Most of the Childe Cycle book are good, Tactics of Mistake, Dosai!, Soldier ask not and The Final Encyelopidea but there are some problems with some of the others Necromancer for instance.
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
I don't know what you are talking about but I thought you were talking about the Darsay Archives from the TNG episode "Masks" for a moment!

And hey - I LIKE that episode. Very good stuff.
 

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Posted by Hunter (Member # 611) on :
 
The Dorsai are a "Race" of Ultra Elite Mercenaries in a series of books collectively know as the Childe Cycle. The premise is that after ftl travel is perfected humanity fragments into specilized races: The Dorsai are fighters, The Exotics are Phillosphers and Thinkers and the Friendlies are Evanaglists. They then have children, called Others, who show some of skills of both parents. The story eventually become one based on the difference between the phillophies of the Others and the Hero Donald Graeme/Hal Mayne over the proper destiny of Humans, Grow spirtual or return to Earth.
 

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Posted by Brian Whisenhunt (Member # 1095) on :
 

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Most of the Childe Cycle book are good, Tactics of Mistake, Dosai!, Soldier ask not and The Final Encyelopidea but there are some problems with some of the others Necromancer for instance

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