Quotes from book
Necromancer

Name: Necromancer
Author: Gordon R. Dickson

Necromancer is a science fiction novel by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, published in 1962. It was alternatively titled No Room for Man between 1963 and 1974 before reverting to its original title. It is the prequel to Dickson's earlier novel Dorsai!.

“In a climate of confusion, one of the surest ways of confounding the enemy is to tell him the plain truth.”

Gordon R. Dickson book Necromancer

Source: Necromancer (1962), Chapter 5 (p. 36)

“Blunt nodded slowly, like an old man. It was not clear whether he had understood and was agreeing, or whether he had given up the attempt to understand and was merely being agreeable.”

Gordon R. Dickson book Necromancer

Source: Necromancer (1962), Chapter 22 (p. 145)

“Actually, each generation likes to think of itself as at the pivot point in history, that in its time the great decision is made which puts man either on the true road or the false. But things aren’t really that serious. Truthfully, the way of mankind is too massive to be kinked, suddenly; it only changes direction in a long and gradual bend over many generations.”

Gordon R. Dickson book Necromancer

Source: Necromancer (1962), Chapter 22 (p. 142)

“The original role of the machine started to get perverted around the time of the industrial revolution. It came to be regarded not as a means to a desired end, but as part of the end in itself. The process accelerated in the nineteenth century, and exploded in the twentieth. Man kept demanding more in the way of service from his technology, and the technology kept giving it—but always at the price of a little more of man’s individual self-contained powers. In the end—in our time—our technology has become second thing to a religion. Now we’re trapped in it. And we’re so enfeebled by our entrapment that we tell ourselves it’s the only possible way to live. That no other way exists.”

Gordon R. Dickson book Necromancer

Source: Necromancer (1962), Chapter 13 (p. 93)