Dumarest saga
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The Dumarest saga is a series of science fiction stories by E. C. Tubb. Each story is a self-contained adventure in itself, but throughout the series, Dumarest searches for clues to the location of his homeworld.
The stories are set in a far future galactic culture that is somewhat fragmented and without any central government. The protagonist, Earl Dumarest, was born on Earth, but had stowed away on a spaceship when he was a young boy. Typically when a stowaway is discovered on a spaceship he or she is just ejected, but the captain takes pity on the boy and allows him to live. When the story opens in The Winds of Gath, he has travelled so long and so far that he doesn't know how to return to his home planet and no-one has ever heard of it, other than as a myth or legend.
It becomes clear that someone or something has deliberately concealed the Earth's location and the Cyclan, an organization of human beings surgically altered to be emotionless (the better to think logically), seems determined to stop him from finding it. In addition, the Cyclan is seeking a discovery, stolen from them and passed on to Dumarest by the dying thief, which would vastly increase their already considerable power.
Also appearing in many of the books is the Church of Universal Brotherhood, with its monks spread throughout as many worlds as the Cyclan, with the two being arch-enemies - which does not make the Church exactly Dumarest's ally, but in some cases he does get some kind of support from it.
[edit] Books
The series consists of:
- The Winds of Gath (1967)
- Derai (1968)
- Toyman (1969)
- Kalin (1969)
- The Jester at Scar (1970)
- Lallia (1971)
- Technos (1972)
- Veruchia (1973)
- Mayenne (1973)
- Jondelle (1973) (also available as Mayenne and Jondelle (1981).
- Zenya (1974)
- Eloise (1975)
- Eye of the Zodiac (1975)
- Jack of Swords (1976)
- Spectrum of a Forgotten Sun (1976)
- Haven of Darkness (1977)
- Prison of Night (1977)
- Incident on Ath (1978)
- Quillian Sector (1978)
- Web of Sand (1979)
- Iduna's Universe (1979)
- The Terra Data (1980)
- World of Promise (1980)
- Nectar of Heaven (1981)
- The Terridae (1981)
- The Coming Event (1982)
- Earth is Heaven (1982)
- Melome (1983)
- Angado (1984) [Melome and Angado published together in 1988]
- Symbol of Terra (1984)
- The Temple of Truth (1985) [Symbol of Terra and Temple of Truth published together in (1989)]
- The Return (1997)
