THE PRITCHER MASS

DAW pb, 1973. Cover by (Frank) Kelly Freas.

NONE BUT MAN

DAW paperback, 1977. Cover artwork by Don Maitz.

Rear cover/synopsis.

Frontispiece, artwork uncredited.

SOLDIER, ASK NOT

Dell paperback, 1967. Cover artwork by Paul Lehr.

Rear cover/synopsis.

THE OUTPOSTER

Sphere paperback, 1980. Cover artwork by Peter Elson.

Rear cover/synopsis.

FAR TRAVELLERS

Mews Books, 1976. Cover artwork uncredited.

Rear cover.

HOUR OF THE HORDE

Berkley Medallion paperback, 1971. Cover artwork by Richard M. Powers.

Rear cover synopsis:

"As a horde of monstrous travelers advances through space annihilating everything before it, a super-defense force, consisting of one especially talented man from each as yet untouched planet, converges in an attempt to turn back the horde. 

Miles Vander, Earth's representative, finds himself with a small group regarded as the less civilized of the defending force. But in the final showdown, it is these creatures capable of independent action and raw courage who give a surprising twist to this galactic cliffhanger..."

THE FINAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Sphere paperback, 1988 reprint. Cover by Les Edwards.

"THEY SOUGHT ONLY TO CONTROL MANKIND - HIS MISSION WAS TO UNDERSTAND IT... 

Almost a century has passed since the legendary Donal Graeme, master of interplanetary warfare and unifier of mankind, disappeared into the vastness of space. Out of his great vision only scattered colonies of the Dorsai, Earth, the Exotics and the Friendlies now remain to challenge the all-conquering Others who have mutated from the strongest of the Splinter Cultures to rule the galaxy. 

Yet even these last bastions are in disarray, their peoples isolated and divided by self-interest. Only someone who can understand the forces of their long and glorious history - someone in who the spirit of Donal lives on - can bring them together against the new superman, and prove that their own evolution has not been in vain."

LOST DORSAI

Orbit paperback, 1991. Artwork by Les Edwards.

"Renowned throughout the galaxy as the finest soldiers ever born, the men of the Dorsai had been hired by El Conde, sovereign of Gebel Nahar, to transform his raggle-taggle army into a fighting force to be reckoned with. Now revolution had erupted, and the men once trained by the Dorsai bore arms against them. Bound by their rigid code of honour, the mercenaries' first duty was to protect el conde from the rebels. But what chance had a handful of warriors, however noble and fearless, against the massed ranks of the Naharese?"

SPIRIT OF THE DORSAI

Orbit paperback, 1989. Artwork by Les Edwards.

"The spirit of Dorsai is an illumination of the heart and soul of the planet dorsai and its people, showing with epic clarity and unforgettable vision how and why the Dorsai fight and live. It tells of the beginning when the first Dorsai was formed by mercenaries willing to fight others' battles to buy freedom for their own homes. It tells how even children and old men fought for the dream of the Dorsai. From the mouth of Amanda Morgan, direct descendant of two illustrious women who bore her name, the full story is told in all its splendour."

TIME STORM

Sphere SF paperback, 1987. Artwork by Peter Elson.

"The day the time storm struck, Marc Despard was one of the handful to survive. Mist walls, moving endlessley across the surface of the earth, created a devastated, shifting patchwork of temporal anarchy. 

But Despard saw strange, dazzling patterns in his head that he knew could lead him through the storm. In the violent, terrifying landscape of an ever-changing world he began to realise his awe-inspiring mission: he must become nothing less than master of the universe - he must become god."

DORSAI!

DAW paperback, February 1976. Cover art by Paul Lehr.

"Donal Graeme, Dorsai of the Dorsai, was the final link in a long genetic train, the ultimate soldier, whose breadth of vision made him a master of space war and strategy - and something even greater. He was the focus of centuries of evolution, the culmination of planned development, and through him a new force made itself felt. 

The Dorsai were renowned throughout the galaxy as the finest soldiers ever born, trained from birth to fight and win, no matter what the odds. With Donal at their head they embarked upon the final, impossibly venture: they set out to unify the splintered worlds of mankind. 

Dorsai! Is the magnificent conclusion of Gordon R. Dickson's epic vision of the future, a vision as sweeping and brilliant as Asimov's Foundation trilogy."

LIFEBOAT

Orbit paperback, 1977. Cover artist uncredited. Possibly
Paul Lehr?

"A saboteur's bomb ripped through the hull of the seemingly indestructible galactic liner, leaving bare minutes for the survivors of the alien crew and human cargo to evacuate ship. 

Giles Steel Ahsad, Adelman, found himself adrift in a tiny lifeboat with a group of human slaves and two Albanareth crewmen. Only the aliens knew how to pilot the vessel - and they had lost the will to live... 

Gordon Dickson, author of the DORSAI trilogy, and Harry Harrison, creator of the DEATHWORLD stories, combine their talents in a magnificent novel of disaster and survival in the vastness between the stars."