Gordon R. Dickson

About the Author

Gordon R. Dickson was a Canadian author who was as influential to the science fiction genre as the likes of Heinlein. In fact, it is difficult to say which of these two authors influenced the other. But no one can deny the fact that, by the time he died in 2001, Dickson had created an immovable literary legacy. +Biography Gordon R. Dickson is a child of Alberta. That is where he was born in the early 1920s. The family eventually moved to America, the result of Dickson’s father passing on. That was in the mid-1930s. Like most young men, Gordon couldn’t avoid being pulled into World War II. Though, he did not serve in the military for long. And when he finally returned to civilian life, the first thing the author did was to get himself a degree in Creative Writing. Those years were of. Gordon R. Dickson is the author of over 124 books across 15 series. Their most famous work is the Publication Order of Standalone Novels series, which has garnered millions of readers worldwide. With such a prolific career, Gordon R. Dickson has established themselves as one of the most influential authors in contemporary fiction.