Childe Cycle (Dorsai series) – Gordon R. Dickson Free Audiobook

Written by Gordon R. Dickson
Read by Stefan Rudnicki, Kevin T. Collins
Format: MP3

The Childe Cycle is an unfinished science fiction series by Gordon R. Dickson, with a setting stretching from the late 21st century into the 24th. Many of the stories in the series feature the Dorsai, an extremely capable warrior people who hire out to interstellar society as mercenaries.

The main series consists of six novels, with a projected seventh and final novel left unfinished at Dickson’s death:

Dorsai! (1959)
Necromancer (1962)
Soldier, Ask Not (1967)
Tactics of Mistake (1971)
The Final Encyclopedia (1984)
The Chantry Guild (1988)
Childe – unfinished

Also included are three novels concerning the background and development of Bleys Ahrens, the antagonist of The Final Encyclopedia and The Chantry Guild, taking place in the decades leading up to those books:

Young Bleys (1991)
Other (1994)
Antagonist (with David W. Wixon) (2007)

Additional short storys and novellas include:

“Amanda Morgan” and “Brothers” (short story), published together in The Spirit of Dorsai (1979)
“Lost Dorsai” (novella) and “Warrior” (short story), published together in Lost Dorsai (1980)

In the former volume, the stories are framed by a conversation between Hal Mayne and the Third Amanda Morgan, during the events of The Final Encyclopedia. The four works have since been collected in one volume as The Dorsai Companion (1986).

Wiki: wikipedia.org/wiki/Childe_Cycle