Gordon R. Dickson

After centuries of hope and progress, and the triumph of science, something strange is happening to mankind....

Hal Mayne is an orphan who was raised by three tutors: an Exotic, a Friendly, and a Dorsai. He is the only human capable of uniting humanity against the Others....

Dorsai Amanda Morgan has made it to Earth with disturbing news: the Younger Worlds intend to attack Earth, unless she and the mysterious Chantry Guild can prevent it....

Earth is but a memory....

It's obvious that Cletus Graeme - limping, mild-mannered scholarly--doesn't belong on a battling field, but instead at a desk working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics....

Donal Graeme was a Dorsai, a mercenary soldier, and also a mutant gifted with insight into the path forward for the human race....

The human race had settled more than a hundred worlds before it met the Emerging Planets Fairness Court - six alien species who sit in judgment on all galactic newcomers....

On the sixteen colonized worlds, mankind had changed, evolved into something that was slightly more than human....

The ultimate warriors, the Dorsai are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence

The Interbeing League had been formed to make contact with new intelligent races in the galaxy. But when the League encountered the Hokas, furry creatures strongly resembling the teddy bears of Earth, Alexander Jones, could have been excused for wishing he had a simpler assignment....