The Chantry Guild: Gordon R. DicksonBook IX of The Childe Cycle. A lone ship entering Earth space rouses Hal Mayne from his researches aboard the Final Encyclopedia. Piloting the craft is Dorsai Amanda Morgan, returning from her work with resistance fighters of the Younger Worlds, bearing terrible though not unexpected news. Bleys Ahrens, commanding the cross cultural hybrids known as the Others, is tightening his deadly hold on the Younger Worlds, bleeding them of able adults and