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{{For|other uses|Necromancer (disambiguation)}} |
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'''''Necromancer''''' is a science fiction novel written by [[Gordon R. Dickson]] in 1962. It was alternatively titled '''''No Room for Man''''' between 1963 and 1974 before reverting to its original title. it is the retroactive prequel to his earlier novel ''[[Dorsai]]''. |
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==Plot== |
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''Necromancer'' follows the fortunes of Paul Formaine, a mining engineer in the late 21st Century who endures several accidents. His quest for self discovery, and recovery from losing his arm, leads him to embrace the Chantry Guild. The Guild embraces a philosophy of destruction with the hope of making space for the rise of a new evolutionary form of humanity. The instrument in their goals is the somewhat melodramatically named Alternate Laws or Alternate Forces. |
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Formaine is led to the Chantry Guild after encountering ''Destruct'', a book written by Walter Blunt, the Guild's leader. Formaine enlists under the mastery of Necromancer Jason Warren and the ethereal influence of musical vocalist Kantele Maki. His initial goal in joining the guild is the regeneration of his lost arm. |
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The story is punctuated by Formaine's epiphany moments. First, he realizes the inadequacy of psychology in his self exploration. He slowly realizes his own savant power over the Alternative Forces. He is taken aback by his growing hyper awareness of the world around him, specifically the inter-related isolation of all individuals. This isolation is dramatically symbolized by Formaine's own singularity. He has a final epiphany near the end of the book that clarifies for him his own identity and potential ... and much more. |
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The book is divided into three sub-books: Isolate, Set, and Pattern. In each book, Formaine realizes the function of each mathematical collective in the flow of objective history and subjective reality. As with many Science Fiction novels, the philosophical underpinnings of evolution require a decidedly unscientific leap in the reader's understanding of what constitutes science to rally the punctuation that brings about the next stage of human evolution. |
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==Major characters== |
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*Paul Formaine |
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*Walter Blunt |
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*Jason Warren |
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*Kantele Maki |
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==Themes== |
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The title ''Necromancer'' is applicable to the contents of the book in two ways. The general, popular conception, a worker of magic, superficially describes the workings of the Chantry Guild. The more technical definition, the occupation of telling the future by communicating with the dead, is applied in the identity and history of Paul Formaine, once again, revealed in the climax of the book. |
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Evolutionary transition is only one of several themes of classic Science Fiction found in Necromancer. It is the link between this novel and the rest of Dickson's [[Childe Cycle]]. Also represented, though, are themes of time-travel, immortality and parapsychology. |
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==''Necromancer's'' place in Dickson's Childe Cycle== |
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Though ''Dorsai'' was actually written first, ''Necromancer'' is chronologically the first story in Gordon R. Dickson's [[Childe Cycle]] of novels. Dickson's own chronology in the essay "See a Thousand Years" places the events at the last decade of the 21st century. However, Sandra Miesel identifies Paul Formaine as another incarnation of characters found later in the Childe Cycle: Hal Mayne and [[Donal Graeme]]. So Formaine's chronological place is somewhat fluid. His "life" extends the length of the cycle. |
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==References== |
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{{nofootnotes|date=April 2009}} |
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*Dickson, Gordon R. "See a Thousand Years." in The Dorsai Companion. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1986. ISBN 0-441-16026-3. |
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*[[Miesel, Sandra]]. "The Plume and the Sword." New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1981. ISBN 0-441-49303-3. |
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[[Category:1962 novels]] |
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Revision as of 16:31, 20 August 2010
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