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	Gordon R. Dickson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 - January 31, 2001) was a Canadian science fiction author.
		Although he was born in Canada, he spent most of his life in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
		This page was last modified 16:11, 8 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gordon_R._Dickson (146 words)

	Gordon Dickson and Rafael Sabatini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Gordon R. Dickson's Childe Cycle, which has been called "the grandest saga in the history of science fiction," has an intimate and intricate relation to a work of Rafael Sabatini.
		Dickson's death in 2001 left unwritten or unfinished the historical novels, the contemporary novels, and the capstone novel in the series, which was to be titled "Childe."
		Dickson was fully aware of this, and wanted the reader to be aware of it, too.
	www.rafaelsabatini.com /Dickson_Sab.html (1135 words)

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		It seems to me in retrospect that Gordon Dickson was one of those writers who knew how to use new materials in his own work that allowed him to grow and change and remain edgy, even though in many ways he was writing perfectly recognizable classic science fiction.
		Gordon Dickson was one of my "early influences" if you will and continued to be there, publishing, exploring, all the while I was coming of age and trying to figure out how to do my own brand of sf.
		Gordon Dickson's first story was published in 1950, a piece called "Trespass", which I doubt forms the base influence of very many people's literary tastes.
	www.marktiedemann.com /distal04.htm (2290 words)

	Camelot's Killers: Gordon Dickson's Rhetorical Cleansing of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Dickson's philosophy of cooperation and generosity takes the form of war novels where the hero (usually male) makes a series of moves that result in a short flurry of action followed by a speedy and total resolution - although there are sometimes moments of melancholy about the future of the human race.
		Dickson's hope seems well-intentioned, his aim to direct power into all human hands, not an elite that destroys the rest of the race (how that elite is to become "universal" is never quite made clear).
		Dickson's heroes and their language occur in the same cultural passage as John Kennedy, whom one historian argues is at the centre of the "modern American hero tale, the life and career of John F. Kennedy, is perhaps even the major American mythology of our time.
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	Gordon R. Dickson
		Dickson was born November 1, 1923 in Edmonton Alberta, but moved to the United States with his mother in 1936 when he was only 13 (following the death of his father).
		Dickson studied with Sinclair Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Poul Anderson.
		Dickson's first story, a collaboration with Poul Anderson entitled "Trespass!", was published in Fantastic Story Quarterly in 1950 and his first novel, Alien from Arcturus saw publication in 1956.
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	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		The science-fiction author Gordon Dickson, who has died aged 77, published his first story, Trespass, in 1950, and continued with more than 80 books and some 200 short stories.
		Dickson was further honoured with two 1981 Hugo awards for the short Lost Dorsai - another Childe story, dealing with the torn loyalties of a pacifist mercenary - and the unrelated The Cloak And The Staff.
		Besides the popularity of his writing, Dickson was personally well liked in SF social circles, where he was a convivial, entertaining speaker (and guitar player) on the north American convention circuit.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4135887,00.html (682 words)

	GORDON DICKSON - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Gordon Dickson is often ranked shoulder-to-shoulder with Robert Heinlein for his military space operas.
		A giant in the science fiction genre, Dickson won three Hugos, was nominated for five more, won a Nebula (and was nominated for another), was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, and was a British Fantasy Society winner.
		Dickson is most famous for his Childe Cycle, a series of inter-related novels that was originally intended to include three science fiction novels, three contemporary novels, and three historical novels.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/dickson/dickson.htm (231 words)

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		Dickson donated his papers to the Manuscripts Division in 1972 and 1978; an additional 70 cubic feet of material was donated in 2002 after Mr.
		Dickson attended the University of Minnesota between 1939 and 1943, then interrupted his studies to serve in the army between 1943 and 1946.
		Dickson originally intended this novel to be an expansion of his 1954 short story, "Black Charlie," but later wrote it as a sort of sequel to that story; the material here reflects both intentions.
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	Gordon R. Dickson - MiC Entry
		Expatriate Gordon R. Dickson was born November 1, 1923 in Edmonton Alberta and moved to the U.S. at the age of 13.
		Dickson's first story was a collaboration with Poul Anderson called "Trespass!", published in Fantastic Story Quarterly in 1950 and his first novel was Alien from Arcturus published in 1956.
		Dickson's most noted works were a series of novels known as the "Childe Cycle" or "Dorsai" series.
	www.geocities.com /canadian_sf/pages/authors/dickson.htm (200 words)

	Gordon R. Dickson
		Dickson gave advice generously to established as well as novice science fiction writers.
		Dickson resided in Minnesota and was working on several projects, including the historical novels Hawkwood and Childe, the first and the final novels of the Childe Cycle, which still remains unfinished.
		Dickson leaves us wondering whether computers can be totally trusted to independently perform operations that could lead to truly life-threatening situations.
	www.iit.edu /~rilecyn/GordonR_Dickson.htm (1094 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gordon R. Dickson
		The Childe Cycle is a series of science fiction novels by Gordon R. Dickson.
		The Hugo Award is given every year for the best science fiction or fantasy stories of the previous year, and for related areas in fandom, art and dramatic presentation.
		Gordon R. Dickson at Minicon 8, 1974 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gordon-R.-Dickson (839 words)

	Famous Quote by Gordon R. Dickson
		The famous and inspirational quotation by Gordon R. Dickson detailed above is well known as an example of the famed verbal and spoken communication, citation or quotation used by the famous person.
		Some of the quotes of Gordon R. Dickson will be familiar and some even deemed to be legendary and sometimes notorious quotes and quotations.
		A quote by Gordon R. Dickson is often mis-spelt as qoute (qoutes) and quotation (qoutation) by Gordon R. Dickson..
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	Dolphin's Way by Gordon R. Dickson
		Gordon R. Dickson says: "I write philosophical fiction with a strongly thematic argument expressed within it by original mythic elements...these elements are embodied in a firmly-structured dramatic story." He is a master of the genre conventions of science fiction and has been known as a leading sf adventure writer since the 1950s.
		As such, his major fiction is more nearly comparable to the fiction of James Blish than to the work of his friend and sometime collaborator, Poul Anderson, though Dickson is firmly in the Campbell (and Heinlein) tradition.
		It shows Dickson using images of cutting-edge science (experiments with dolphin intelligence in the early 1960s) and juxtaposing issues of contact with aliens constantly raised in the hard sf of the previous decades (as in Murray Leinster's "First Contact," and many others) for final ironic contrast.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Dolphin.html (344 words)

	Amazon.com: Dorsai (Dorsai/Childe Cycle): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Dickson effectively structures the story; we follow Donal as he rises up the military ranks from Senior Cadet to higher levels of responsibility.
		Dickson also maintains his inability to write convincing female characters, Anea is a step forward and a step backward, she's a strong, opinionated character, it's just that all her opinions are wrong and she spends most of the book making snide judgements about Donal that clearly make her look stupid.
		Dickson also has established some great characters, although there aren't many that stay throughout the book- Donal, the main character, is a mercenary, and is always somewhere new, with someone new.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812503988?v=glance (1581 words)

	Gordon R. Dickson (1923-2001) - SFWA News
		I'm deeply saddened to report the death of Gordon R. Dickson early this morning.
		Gordon's family asks that those wishing to make contributions in his memory send them to the SFWA Emergency Medical Fund, 1436 Altamont Ave., PMB 292, Schenectady NY 12303-2977.
		Gordy was not an intellectual, as she is spoke, and never pretentious, but he had some sophisticated literary tastes.
	www.sfwa.org /News/gdickson.htm (2023 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Dragon in Lyonesse
		Dickson has won Hugo Awards for two novellas, "Soldier, Ask Not" in 1965 and "Lost Dorsai" in 1981, and a novelette, "The Cloak and the Staff" in 1981.
		No, Dickson is a pro: he knows how to plot, he knows how to create distinct, believable characters, and how to sustain a reader's interest.
		Dickson sets his limits and doesn't cheat, and in the meantime manages to give a nice medieval flavour to his goings-on.
	www.sfsite.com /01a/lyo48.htm (956 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: The R-Master / Gordon R. Dickson
		GORDON R. Possibly one of the earliest SF novels to deal with smart-drugs, The R-Master is one of Dickson's seemingly forgotten stories.
		Although the premise is intriguing and believable, and the story has quite a number of memorable scenes, the narrative is fatally talky, with entire chapters devoted to exposition and lengthy dialogue exchanges sorting things out for the reader's edification.
		Ultimately, what Dickson has written here is an examination of life under a rigid, classist, and deceptively benevolent world power, that, while certainly intellectually stimulating, doesn't quite cut it as entertainment.
	www.sfreviews.net /rmaster.html (464 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Necromancer / Gordon R. Dickson
		GORDON R. Dickson's second novel in his epoch-spanning Childe Cycle (which, like most of them, can be read as a stand-alone story) is a much different piece of work than its predecessor, Dorsai!
		But what Dickson is doing in Necromancer is giving us a taste of precisely how chaotic and creepy a universe would be in which not only did the paranormal exist, but in which natural and "alternate" laws were constantly at war with one another.
		Necromancer is an immensely satisfying piece of entertainment that lays the groundwork for the rest of Dickson's Dorsai saga, and showcases the vivid imagination and burgeoning storytelling skills that were to make him one of SF's major players in later years.
	www.sfreviews.net /necromancer.html (590 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dragon In Lyonesse (Dragon): Books: Gordon R. Dickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Dickson's Arthurian series about a dragon knight--twentieth-century mathematician Jim Eckert, who has been thrown back to the fourteenth century and has acquired the ability to turn into a dragon at will--continues.
		Dickson's is a distinctly original take on the Matter of Britain (which, to be sure, is supposed to have transpired a good many centuries earlier than in these yarns), distinguished by the humor arising out of the contrast between popular notions about the Middle Ages and its frequently grisly realities.
		Dickson has written a standout book in his famous series and this is deffinatly it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812562712?v=glance (1531 words)

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		My favorite Dickson novels are the ones from the "Childe Cycle," especially, "Tactics of Mistake." This is another book I read to pieces.
		Dickson died early on the morning of January 31, 2001.
		Dickson won the British Fantasy Award in 1977 for The Dragon and the George, the first of a series of "Dragon Knight" novels, including Dickson's last-published book, The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent, published in December 2000.
	members.fortunecity.com /tirpetz/authorpages/Dickson/dickson.htm (334 words)

	Gordon R. Dickson Message Board
		Man, I can not even imagine how complex Dickson's mind must have been to come up with the thought and insights that he put in his book.
		Gordon did not leave any completed manuscripts for anything, either in the Dragon Knight series or in the Childe Cycle.
		Good Evening: I am searching for a quote from one of Dickson's novels that I read many years ago that goes something to the effect and similar to" Fear not the geneneral and his armies and the king...
	www.allreaders.com /Board.asp?BoardID=3133 (697 words)

	Millennial reviews XXVII: The Far Call -Gordon R. Dickson
		It is not without flaws, especially the two dimensional characters [women in particular] and it often smells of the bestseller plot model.
		Dickson is not a brilliant stylist and I found the first quarter of the book to be very hard to read.
		We of course haven't had a six nation Mars program [I hope we never do] and Dickson's people have a much more active space program in general: they make things in LEO, I think, although this doesn't seem to have much impact on the Mars mission.
	www.cloggie.org /esseff/millennial-27.html (1059 words)

	Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Gordon R. Dickson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Gordon Dickson was a prolific author of science fiction, publishing over 80 novels and many short stories since his first, "Trespass" (co-authored with Poul Anderson), was featured in Fantastic Story Quarterly in 1950.
		His first novel, Alien from Arcturus (1956), established a tone of underlying seriousness which became marked in his later works, among them the sequence of novels — known alternately as the Childe Cycle or Dorsai series — which was to occupy much of his energy for decades.
		Dickson won the Nebula award for Best Novelette with "Call Him Lord" (1966).
	www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=74 (192 words)

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		Contains the essays "The Childe Cycle Status Report" by Dickson and "A Conversation with Gordon R. Dickson" by Sandra Miesel.
		Credited to Dickson, Troy Denning, and Cory Glaberson, and published in 1989, the book is a cross between one of the What Happens Next style novels and an Role Playing Game.
		There are events which occur, one rolls dice, consults combat charts, and determines outcomes, which then routes you to the next page to read.
	www.maypark.com /~lvirden/Misc/dickson.txt (898 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Chantry Guild by Gordon R. Dickson
		The Chantry Guild was originally published in 1988 as part of Dickson's Childe Cycle, a fascinating future universe with the detail and complexity of Asimov's Foundation series but, in my opinion, much more appealing.
		In Dickson's universe, mankind has splintered in its colonization of other worlds, to emphasize different attributes.
		Dickson is a prolific writer of speculative fiction.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.ASP?bookid=1805 (468 words)

	Time Storm (Gordon R Dickson) : Entropy, backwards?
		Time Storm (Gordon R Dickson) may have Easter Eggs on our companion site Eeggs.com.
		All throughout the book, Dickson talks about how entropy (The disorder of a system) DECREASES as time goes on.
		Dickson was trying to make his book sound all extra scientific and stuff, but he got it completely backwards.
	www.slipups.com /items/19012.html (405 words)

	Dickson! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Also included is a special introduction by Poul Anderson, Gordon Dickson's long-time friend and collaborator.
		Gordon Rupert Dickson was born November 1, 1923, in Edmonton, Alberta, but has spent most of his life in the Minneapolis area.
		Among Dickson's SF awards are three Hugos and a Nebula.
	www.nesfa.org /press/Books/Dickson.htm (294 words)

	Powell's Books - Soldier, Ask Not: A Novel in The Chide Cyle by Gordon R. Dickson
		"Dickson is among the best storytellers we have ever had...
		"Dickson is nothing if not versatile — but the books known as the Childe Cycle are perhaps his best work".
		Gordon R. Dickson was the Hugo- and Nebula-winning author of many classics of fantasy and science fiction, most famously the Childe Cycle (also known as the Dorsai series).
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=0-0812504003-0 (351 words)

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