First edition. Dust jacket is very good, tiny scuff on corner, price on flap. Text is clean and solid, slight bump on back bottom edge. A very collectible copy in protective covers.

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Title: The Chantry Guild
Publisher: Ace Books
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 044110276X
ISBN 13: 9780441102761
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Amanda Morgan, a Dorsai warrior, warns Hal Mayne that Bleys Ahrens is strengthening his control of the Younger Worlds and asks Hal to help the Chantry Guild in opposing Ahrens

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Dickson's vast Childe Cycle ( Soldier , Ask Not , The Final Encyclopedia ) is taken one further step with this story of a conceptual breakthrough by the Dorsai mercenary and philosopher Hal Mayne. The action is slim here as a frustrated Mayne, stymied in his efforts to conceive a strategy to save Old Earth from its overwhelming foe, the Others, visits the secretive, quasi-religious Chantry Guild on the planet Kultis. While absorbing their teaching, he helps the Guild evade local soldiers and has an unexpected meeting with his nemesis, Bleys Ahrens. Although the protagonist's quest and Dickson's conviction are generally engrossing, the novel suffers from many of the pitfalls of Dickson's other solemn, parable-like tales. In its weaker moments, the prose teeters toward psychobabble as bland superman Mayne pushes a reluctant human race toward a level where they "would have more, be more, and choose more wisely."
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