5 Books by Gordon R. Dickson
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Overview: Gordon R. Dickson (1923 – 2001) Gordon Rupert Dickson was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1923 but resided in the United States from the age of thirteen. Along with Robert A. Heinlein, he is regarded as one of the fathers of military space opera, his Dorsai! sequence being an early exemplar of both military SF and Future History. Dickson was one of the rare breed of authors as well known for his fantasy as his SF – The Dragon and the George, the first novel in his Dragon Knight sequence, was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award and won the British Fantasy Award. Dickson’s work also won him three Hugos and Nebula. He died in 2001.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Far Call
Along with a very few among the Earthbound billions of the 1990s, Jens Wylie dreamed of a future for Man among the stars. He seized the chance to become U.S. Undersecretary for the Development of Space and to help plan the first manned Mars voyage. But political compromise and corner-cutting built disaster into the expedition from the start. A nd when disaster struck, threatening the lives of the marsnauts and the whole destiny of the human race in space, only Jens saw what had to be done – and to do it, he had to risk his own life, face the loss of the woman he loves and defy the awesome power of the President of the United States.
Alien Art
Time and Again…
colonists on a new world would struggle with untamed wilderness, endure incredible privation, expend their utmost effort to pay off the "First Mortgage" on their virgin planet. Then would come the developers, company men, intent on transforming yet another wilderness planet into a second-rate, raped and polluted Imitation Earth. It always happened that way. But not this time–not if Mattie, Cary and Charlie could stop them! Of course, Mattie was a nineteen-year-old girl, Cary, and ignorant backwoodsman, and Charlie, a swamp otter who carved things with his teeth–and aganst them stood the resources of a hundred worlds…
Outposter
Trapped…The Outposters, a token band of specially trained experts, were given the task of guiding the exiled colonists in their harsh new environment and protecting them from the treachery of the enemy Meda V’Dans.
But the problems seemed insurmountable. For Earth was indifferent to her superfluous population and supply lines ran thin. The colonists were considered disposable "garbage."
But one young Outposter, Mark Ten Roos, had an old score to settle with the Meda V’Dans. Years ago they had killed his parents and now they had crippled his adopted father.
His plan was a daring challenge to the system. But could he change the odds…?
Time Storm
"A masterful science fiction story told by a masterful science fiction writer".–Milwaukee Journal. A time storm has devastated the Earth, and only a small fraction of humankind remains. From the rubble, three survivors form an unlikely alliance: a young man, a young woman, and a leopard.
The Lifeship with Harry Harrison
Castaways between the stars…
Trapped in the confines of their fragile lifeship, a tiny band of aliens and humans faces the awesome challenge of survival after the mysterious explosion of a giant spaceship.
Giles Steel, a member of Earth’s master race, assumes responsibility for erupting tempers, the dwindling food supply…and the saboteur whose ugly work has already begun!
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