Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction

Lifespan: (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001)

Interesting & Unique Facts: Dickson, whose full name wasGordon Rupert Dickson, was born in Canada, then moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota as a teenager. He is most famous for his Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight series. He won three Hugo awards.

Gordon Dickson was as influential as Robert A. Heinlein in the creation of the sub-genre of military space opera; his Dorsai! is of much higher regard than Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

The Dragon Knight series, which places a contemporary adventurer loose in a magic world, is at once comical and ethically complex.

Dickson suffered from asthma for much of his life.

Author's work in order (with publication dates):

Childe Cycle

• The Genetic General (1960) [also published as Dorsai!]
• Necromancer (1962) [also published as No Room for Man]
• Warrior (1965) [short story included in Lost Dorsai]
• Soldier, Ask Not (1967)
• Tactics of Mistake (1971)
• The Spirit of Dorsai (1979)
• Lost Dorsai (1980)
• The Final Encyclopedia (1984)
• The Dorsai Companion (1986)
• The Chantry Guild (1988)
• Young Bleys (1991)
• Other (1994)
• Antagonist (2007) [with David W. Wixon]

Dragon Knight Series

• The Dragon and the George (1976)
• The Dragon Knight (1990)
• The Dragon on the Border (1992)
• The Dragon at War (1992)
• The Dragon, the Earl, and the Troll (1994)
• The Dragon and the Djinn (1996)
• The Dragon and the Gnarly King (1997)
• The Dragon in Lyonesse (1998)
• The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent (2000)

Hoka Series

• Earthman's Burden (1957) [with Poul Anderson]
• Hoka! (1983) [with Poul Anderson]
• Star Prince Charlie (1983) [with Poul Anderson]
• Hokas Pokas! (2000) [with Poul Anderson and includes Star Prince Charlie]

Non-Series Novels

• Alien from Arcturus (1956) [expanded as Arcturus Landing]
• Mankind on the Run (1956) [also published as On the Run]
• Time to Teleport (1960)
• Naked to the Stars (1961)
• Spacial Delivery (1961)
• Delusion World (1961)
• The Alien Way (1965)
• The Space Winners (1965)
• Mission to Universe (1965) [revised in 1977]
• The Space Swimmers (1967)
• Planet Run (1967) [with Keith Laumer]
• Spacepaw (1969)
• Wolfling (1969)
• None But Man (1969)
• Hour of the Horde (1970)
• Sleepwalkers’ World (1971)
• The Outposter (1972)
• The Pritcher Mass (1972)
• Alien Art (1973)
• The R-Master (1973) [revised as The Last Master, 1984]
• Gremlins, Go Home (1974) [with Ben Bova]
• The Lifeship (1977) [also published as Lifeboat, with Harry Harrison]
• Time Storm (1977)
• The Far Call (1978)
• Home from the Shore (1978)
• Pro (1978)
• Masters of Everon (1980)
• The Last Master (1984)
• Jamie the Red (1984) [with Roland Green]
• Steel Brother (1985)
• The Forever Man (1986)
• Way of the Pilgrim (1987)
• The Earth Lords (1989)
• Wolf and Iron (1990)
• The Magnificent Wilf (1995)
• The Right to Arm Bears (2000) [omnibus of Spacial Delivery, Spacepaw, etc]

Short Story Collections

• Danger—Human (1970) [also published as The Book of Gordon Dickson]
• Mutants (1970)
• The Star Road (1973)
• Ancient, My Enemy (1974)
• Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best (1978) [revised as In the Bone, 1987]
• In Iron Years (1980)
• Love Not Human (1981)
• The Man from Earth (1983)
• Dickson! (1984) [revised as Steel Brother]
• Survival! (1984)
• Forward! (1985)
• Beyond the Dar Al-Harb (1985)
• Invaders! (1985)
• The Man the Worlds Rejected (1986)
• Mindspan (1986)
• The Last Dream (1986)
• The Stranger (1987)
• Guided Tour (1988)
• Beginnings (1988)
• Ends (1988)
• The Human Edge (2003)

Children's Books

• Secret under the Sea (1960)
• Secret under Antarctica (1963)
• Secret under the Caribbean (1964)
• Secrets of the Deep (1985) [omnibus of the three above books]