Necromancer's Place in Dickson's Childe Cycle
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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