Gordon R. Dickson

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  • Bibliography:
    103 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1952
  • Latest Book:
    January 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Combat Command

8 - Dorsai's Command (Feb-1989)

Dorsai

1 - Necromancer (1962)
2 - Tactics of Mistake (1971)
3 - Lost Dorsai: The New Dorsai Companion (Aug-1980)
4 - Soldier, Ask Not (1964)
5 - Dorsai! (1988)
6 - Young Bleys (Mar-1991)
7 - The Final Encyclopedia Vol. 1 (Oct-1984)
8 - The Final Encyclopedia Vol. 2 (Dec-1996)
9 - The Chantry Guild (May-1989)
Spirit of Dorsai (Sep-1979)
Antagonist (Mar-2007)

Dragon Knight

1 - Dragon and the George (Jun-1987)
2 - The Dragon Knight (Oct-1990)
3 - The Dragon on the Border (Apr-1992)
4 - The Dragon at War (Nov-1992)
The Dragon, the Earl, and the Troll (Dec-1994)
The Dragon and the Djinn (Jan-1996)
The Dragon and the Gnarly King (Aug-1997)
The Dragon in Lyonesse (Aug-1999)
The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent (Dec-2000)

Harriers

2 - Blood and War (Aug-1993)

War and Honor

1 - The Harriers (Apr-1991)

Book List in Order: 103 titles

  • Time Grabber

    in The Eternal City

    Collecting tales of Roman glory and decadence written by science fiction authors, this melding of past and future themes includes stories by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, David Drake, and Robert E. Howard...

  • Necromancer

    • / Space Opera
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    Dorsai - 1

    The machine that controlled all life wouldn't tolerate any interference. People who refused to be regulated had to be disposed of - isolated, driven insane, murdered. A small group of men had dedicated themselves to fighting this Frankenstein of man'...

  • Soldier, Ask Not

    • / Space Opera
    • Buy Buy
    Dorsai - 4

    The black-clad mercenaries of the Friendly planets fought where their employer and their God dictated. On New Earth they pitted their fanaticism against the cold courage of the Dorsai. And the implacable hatred of one man, Tam Olyn. Olyn saw his brot...

  • Hour of the Horde

    Aug 1978 mass market paperback, Gordon R. Dickson (The Dragon On The Border). Annihilating everything before it, a horde of monstrous space travelers were advancing through the stars. And Earth lay in their route. To defend their home planets, the wo...

  • Tactics of Mistake

    • / Space Opera
    • Buy Buy
    Dorsai - 2

    One man, one world, against all comers. It's obvious that Cletus Graeme--limping, mild-mannered, scholarly--doesn't belong on a battlefield. He's published three books on strategy and tactics, and is working on his fourth: doubtless a worthy pursu...

  • Outposter

    • / Science Fiction
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    FORMULA FOR REVENGE Take one high-spirited little boy. Kill his family before his eyes. Allow him to escape. Give him time to grow up. You're in trouble....

  • Brothers

    in Astounding
    • / Science Fiction
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  • The Book of Gordon Dickson

  • Ancient, My Enemy

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy



  • The R-Master

  • The Lifeship

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    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 maste...

  • Time Storm

    RIDERS ON THE TIME STORM The time storm had devastated the Earth, and all but a small fraction of humankind has vanished. In the rubble of the world, three survivors had formed an unlikely trio: Marc Despard, determined to find a way to stop the t...

  • Spirit of Dorsai

    Dorsai

    The Childe Cycle is the lifework of one of science fiction's greatest practitioners, Gordon R. Dickson. The centerpiece of that lifework is the planet Dorsai and its people. Here, for the first time, in a special, profusely illustrated edition, is a...

  • Masters of Everon

    Who are the "Masters" of Everon? Masters of Everon, announces the brass plate on the door of the original Everon colonists' corporate headquarters. But somehow Everon resisted all their efforts; it was as if the planet itself fought against human ...

  • In Iron Years

    • / General Fiction
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  • The Star Road

    Aug 1974 DAW mass market paperback, #UJ1526. 3rd printing. Gordon R. Dickson (Dorsai!). The Star Road is a collection of science fiction stories by Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Doubleday in 1973. The stories originally appeared in the...

  • Lost Dorsai: The New Dorsai Companion

    Dorsai - 3

    Pacifism will always be a powerful moral force, even -- perhaps especially -- to the Dorsai. For those of this planet of warriors born and bred are not as other men; once a Dorsai's heart is given he holds nothing back, and does not count the cost. E...

  • Love Not Human

  • Time to Teleport, Delusion World

    The World was quiet and that was bad, for it was the quiet not of peace but of stagnation. Strife was ended but so was progress, growth, human striving - except in the hidden laboratories and redoubts of the underground members of Humanity. They da...



  • The Far Call

    Jens Wylie would never leave Earth, but his heart was with the brave men and women of the first Mars Expedition, enchanted by the siren song of the stars. As U.S. Undersecretary of Space, he thought he could share some small part of that bold advent...

  • Mutants

  • The Alien Way

    One man is mentally linked to an alien who is spearheading an invasion of Earth; a group of soldiers fight to win new space for Earth; and a small group of men fight against a machine that controls all life....

  • Combat Sf

    Presents fifteen stories of future weaponry and warfare, involving murderously sophisticated and otherworldly technologies, interplanetary and extra-temporal battles, and interstellar advances, retreats, and devastations...

  • The Last Master

    A repressively benevolent bureaucracy, intent on limiting and harnessing the effects of an IQ-boosting drug known as R-47, is thwarted by an underground led by an R-Master, latest of the drug-produced supergeniuses. Our hero's apolitical to start wit...

  • Jamie the Red

  • Dickson!

  • The Final Encyclopedia Vol. 1

    Dorsai - 7

  • Secrets of the Deep

    • / Science Fiction
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    A collection containing Secret Under the Sea, Secret Under Antarctica, and Secret Under the Caribbean. Gordon R. Dickson's Robby Hoenig adventures are timeless young adult stories in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke's Dolphin Island. Secret Under th...

  • See Now, A Pilgrim

    in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Guns of Darkness
    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    ECHO THROUGH THE LAND... From the gray gunsmoke mists of a far-off alien realm to a violent valley of sinister shadows and frightfully bloody death, from an evil planet haunted by generals of the past and the soldiers who served them to a brutal t...



  • House of Weapons

    in There Will Be War, Vol. VI: Warrior
    • / Science Fiction
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    WARRIOR! spans the length and depths of interstellar space, breaching the farthest reaches of infinity. From the deepest heart of the starkest black hole to the dazzling chaos of starry inception man endlessly replays the tireless scenarios of war. F...

  • Wolfling

    One hundred years into the future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centurai III and discovers that all life, including humankind, is governed by the Throne World and Earth is only a primitive outpost, but one man from Earth will show th...

  • Sleepwalker's World

    With most of the world wrapped in a hypnotic deep sleep, Rafe Harald arrives from the moon to find a friend and is shadowed by agents of the failing world government and a mysterious figure known as the Old Man. Reprint....

  • Forward

  • Beyond the Dar Al-Harb

    Jami al-Kafir, a young Scottish prince turned bodyguard for a jewel merchant in Ayla, is tricked by an unscrupulous Persian sorcerer into kidnapping an exquisite and enchanted young woman called the White Flower...

  • Invaders!

  • Steel Brother

  • On the Run

    After the police order him to forget his missing wife, Kil Bruner's search leads him to deformed psychos, secret societies of wierd giants, time-warping superhumans, and warring conspiracies ready to destroy Earth...

  • The Dorsai Companion

  • The Man the Worlds Rejected



  • The Forever Man

    The ancient starship La Chasse Gallerie is found drifting perilously in space. Despite heavy damage from alien Laagi warships, incredibly the ship is till intact and the voice of its pilot, Raoul Penard, comes through loud and clear. But Petard died ...

  • Pro

    Professional... that was Harb Mallard. A hardened pro, able to shift the direction of developing alien cultures any way he needed to, with just a few well-placed punches to the tender spots. The Expansion Service depended on men like Mallard to boost...

  • Alien Art

    The machine that controlled all life wouldn't tolerate any interference. People who refused to be regulated had to be disposed of - isolated, driven insane, murdered. A small group of men had dedicated themselves to fighting this Frankenstein of man'...

  • The Multiple Man

    • / Science Fiction
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  • Stranger

  • The Man from Earth

  • Spacial Delivery

  • Dragon and the George

    Dragon Knight - 1

    Jim Eckert was a dragon. He hadn't planned it that way, but that's what happened when he set out to rescue his betrothed. Following her through an erratic astral-projection machine, Jim suddenly found himself in a cockeyed world -- locked in the bod...

  • Way of the Pilgrim

    "Imagine an Earth totally dominated by an alien race. Imagine that humans and their technology are completely powerless against these invaders. Imagine a world in which people are nothing more than cattle to their new masters... "Now imagine that ...

  • Survival

    Combining action, adventure, and emotion the author pits humans against insurmountable aliens, bitter weather on frontier planets, and their own fears to depict man's heroism in the struggle for survival...



  • Dorsai!

    • / Space Opera
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    Dorsai - 5

    SOLDIER OF SPACE. HERO OF DESTINY Throughout the Fourteen Worlds of humanity, no race is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, unbreakable honor, and fierce independence. No man rules ...

  • Guided Tour

  • Home from the Shore

    When the Sea-Born cadets walk out of space academy in protest, the stage is set for the long impending clash between the sea and land. Can these two races co-operate, or will they destroy each other first?...

  • Mission to Universe

    General Benjamin Shore was heading for the stars under forged orders - and in defiance of the commands of the President. He was leaving Earth in an untested ship with a crew chosen by neccesity and with nothing but faith to guide him. His onlt yhope ...

  • Arcturus Landing

  • Beginnings

  • Pritcher Mass

    The only hope for mankind's survival after the contamination of the Earth lay in the Pritcher Mass, a psychic forcefield construction out beyond the orbit of Pluto. Created by the efforts of individuals with extraordinary paranormal powers, the Mass ...

  • Ends

  • Spacepaw

  • The Earth Lords

  • Dorsai's Command

    Combat Command - 8

    You are Mies Ohanlon, active-duty officer of the elite corps known as the Dorsai. Young and inexperienced, you are about to take on your first assignment--a raw, violent challenge that will make or break your career in the finest military force in th...

  • The Chantry Guild

    Dorsai - 9

    Only one thing could lure Hal Mayne away from his research aboard the Final Encyclopedia. It was the shattering news of the Younger Worlds' oncoming defeat--an inevitable triumph for the cross-cultural hybrids known as the Others. To save Earth's ...

  • Wolf and Iron

    After the collapse of civilization, when the social fabric of America has come apart in bloody rags, when every man's hand is raised against another, and only the strong survive. "Jeebee" Walther was a scientist, a student of human behavior, who saw ...

  • The Dragon Knight

    Dragon Knight - 2

    Sir James Eckert, now Baron de Bois de Malencontri et Riveroak, woke one morning with the odd sensation that something was wrong... and it was. During the night he had been transformed back into the shape of a dragon. Now Jim must embark on a new ...

  • Young Bleys

    Dorsai - 6

    YOUNG BLEYS is the newest volume in Gordon R. Dickson's masterpiece, "The Childe Cycle," a future history that has been thrilling readers for more than three decades. By the workings of chance Bleys Ahrens was born the genetic equal of Hal Mayne, ...

  • Of War and Honor

    Earth is but a memory...the real action these days is in The Magnicate, a league of all the human worlds in the galaxy. At the center of The Magnicate is the Hub, a huge artificial world from which control of Human Space flows. The Hub governmet i...

  • The Harriers

    War and Honor - 1

    Earth is but a memory...the real action these days is in The Magnicate, a league of all the human worlds in the galaxy. At the center of the Magnicate is the Hub, a huge artificial world from which control of Human Space flows. The Hub government is ...

  • Robot Warriors

  • Space Dogfights

  • None But Man

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    A classic of science fiction from SF legend Gordon R. Dickson, winner of three Hugo awards, a Nebula award, and an inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.The long period of civil unrest known as the Frontier Rebellion has come to an...

  • The Dragon on the Border

    Dragon Knight - 3

    Gordon R. Dickson returns to one of his most beloved creations--a fantastic medieval world in which a twentieth-century American is transformed into a knight... and a dragon. In THE DRAGON ON THE BORDER, Sir James, the Dragon Knight, faces his mos...

  • Bootcamp 3000

    A collection of short stories set in a future of space-age wars features works by Christopher Anvil, Raymond E. Banks, Sonya Dorman, Joe W. Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Chad Oliver, and Jack Vance. Original....

  • The Dragon at War

    Dragon Knight - 4

    Gordon R. Dickson continues his thrilling saga--the tale of a twentieth-century American transformed into a Dragon Knight and transported into a fantastic medieval adventure! Serpent or dragon--which is the stronger? Raised from the deep and ready...

  • The Last Dream

  • Mindspan

    What do you do when you're being misunderstood by an alien race whose weapons are meaner than yours? There's a time for diplomacy... and a time when good old human cunning is the only alternative....

  • The Space Swimmers

    Patrick Joya lifted his head to scan the southern sky and saw a dark bluish shape flicker against the clouds. Growing larger and larger the object undulated like a wide piece of cloth carried along on a moving current of water. "He could hear the bab...

  • Blood and War

    Harriers - 2

  • Space Winners

    Stranded on the Quarantined World of Quebahr, the first high-school students selected to leave Earth for study in the Galactic Federation must overcome their lack of training and learn to adapt and survive. Reprint....

  • Other

    Bleys Ahrens is now a political power on the planet Association, home of the Friendlies. His people--his Others, not Dorsai or Friendly or Exotic, but hybrids--are in place on all the new worlds, and are ready to take his message to the greater human...

  • The Dragon, the Earl, and the Troll

    Dragon Knight

    'Tis the season for treachery: The Earl of Somerset is throwing a lavish Christmas feast, a revel above all others to celebrate the holiday. But the Dark Powers have chosen this joyous time to launch a massive offensive. An army of land-hungry trolls...

  • The Magnificent Wilf

    Earth has been contacted by galactic civilization, and Tom and his wife, Lucy, seem to be the perfect candidates to tour the galaxy as Earth's representatives and learn the ways of the galaxy, but on their performance hinges Earth's relations with ot...

  • The Dragon and the Djinn

    Dragon Knight

    Gordon R. Dickson continues his acclaimed saga of a twentieth-century American transformed into a Dragon Knight - and transported into a fantastic medieval adventure! The Dragon Knight's journey to the Holy Land is supposed to be a simple quest...but...

  • The Final Encyclopedia Vol. 2

    Dorsai - 8

    The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition.

    In The Final Encyclopedia the huma...

  • The Final Encyclopedia, Volume 1

    The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition.

    In The Final Encyclopedia the huma...

  • The Final Encyclopedia, Volume 2

    The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition.

    In The Final Encyclopedia the huma...

  • The Dragon and the Gnarly King

    Dragon Knight

    As a young mathematician, Jim Eckert was transported to a parallel medieval world where he found he had the ability to transform himself into a large but none-too-bright dragon named Gorbash. Jim Eckert's daring exploits have earned him a title - Bar...

  • The Dragon in Lyonesse

    Dragon Knight

    In this latest of Gordon R. Dickson's immensely popular adventures of Jim Eckert; the 20th-century mathematician who has come to live in a medieval age where magic works and Jim himself can become a dragon at will, Gordon R. Dickson draws on the rich...

  • St. Dragon and the George

    in Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic

  • The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent

    Dragon Knight

    Jim Eckert, the Dragon Knight, must now confront the three disasters that lie in wait for any visitor to the English Middle Ages: war, plague, and Plantagenets. The plague is caused by a covert invasion of shape-changing goblins with plague-tipped...

  • The Right to Arm Bears

    HUMANS OR HEMNOIDS: AN UNBEARABLE CHOICE! Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans and their adversaries, the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance,...

  • Naked to the Stars

    During an action on the third planet from Arcturus, soldier Cal Truent woke up in the hospital with a sixteen-hour hole in his memory. No one knows what it is that Cal has forgotten, but his superiors can't take the chance that it might be something ...

  • The Human Edge

    DANGER HUMAN The Universe is not a nice neighborhood, and the neighbors may be downright hostile--but you can't keep a good human down! A master of science fiction adventure looks at what happens when powerful aliens meet puny humans, with results...

  • Antagonist

    Dorsai

    Gordon R. Dicksons Childe Cycle of novels depicting the future of the human race has been one of the grand epics of science fiction. At the time of his death in 2001, Dickson was writing Antagonist, the tale of Bleys Ahrens turn toward darkness. Now ...

  • It Hardly Seems Fair

    "Sunset." said Creighar, thickly, tossing the knife on the table between them. "You cut him loose."ExcerptHe did, on a higher note. "You heard me? Cut him loose!" Face calm above his triumph pounding heart, Frank rose; still without words, he picked ...

  • Mankind on the Run

    One day Kil Bruner was a solid Class A engineer in a society of World Police and citizen Files, jet-set migrants and status-ranking Stability keys. But the Police ordered Kil to forget about his missing wife Ellen - and that was a mistake. Because Ki...

  • Idiot Solvant

    Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, he believed that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This be...

  • Question

    The Nature of Things is Lucretius’ Epicurean masterpiece, worry not about tomorrow, live for today. Fear not death and experience life here and now. Dangerous ideas when they were first composed, but the power of these words have helped shape moder...

  • Lost Dorsai

    There are many legends on the planet of the Dorsai, the breeding ground for heroes. Here are two of them. Lost Dorsai: The New Dorsai Companion contains the Hugo Award winning novella, Lost Dorsai, and Dickson's classic short story "Warrior."...

  • Time to Teleport

    They called their secret society Members of the Human Race, but the majority of humanity preferred to call them "the Inhumans." That's because it was generally believed that they were a vicious masked gang of vivisectionists, mutators, and monster-ma...

  • Delusion World

    There had to be a reason why that isolated human colony had been able to survive mankind's implacable enemies. But nobody had been able to get to the quaintly named Dunroamin to find out. If they had a secret defense, it could be the answer to a hund...

  • The Final Encyclopedia

    The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition. In The Final Encyclopedia the human race ...

  • Alien from Arcturus

    Quarantine...Ever since Earth's first starship crept out on sublight drive a hundred years ago and was met by an emissary of the Galactic Federation, man has lived as a prisoner in the solar system. The Federation decreed that unless man could demons...

  • In the Bone

    • / Science Fiction
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  • No Shield From The Dead

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    No conceivable force could penetrate Terri’s shield. Yet he was defenseless....

Award-Winning Books by Gordon R. Dickson

Soldier, Ask Not
1965 Hugo Award -- Short Story


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Gordon R. Dickson has published 103 books.

Gordon R. Dickson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Alien from Arcturus, was published in January 2014.

The first book by Gordon R. Dickson, Time Grabber, was published in January 1952.

Yes. Gordon R. Dickson has 5 series.
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