WRITER

Gordon R. Dickson

1923 - 2001

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Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was an American science fiction writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gordon R. Dickson has received more than 234,024 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Gordon R. Dickson is the 3,787th most popular writer (down from 3,703rd in 2019), the 247th most popular biography from Canada (down from 244th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Canadian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

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  • 50.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The outposter
Fiction in English
1972
Necromancer
Fiction in English, Fiction
1962
Soldier, Ask Not
Science fiction
1967
Time Storm
Fiction in English, Space and time, Time travel
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. "A masterful science fiction story told by a masterful science fiction writer". -- Milwaukee Journal. A time storm strikes the Earth. The Earth remains, but different parts of the Earth are in different eras. Travel between the different zones is thought to be impossible. The main character, Marc Despard, resolves to fight the time storm. After some struggles, he assembles a small band of people, including one alien, to help him try to understand what has happened and to stop the time storm. He has 2 extraordinary relationships with a older teenaged girl who is speechless for the first part of the book (she was "struck dumb" by the time storm) and with, believe it or not, a leopard. Dickson's writing makes the extraordinary seem quite normal. Ultimately, after being harried by a Mad Max-like group of survivors, he uses a machine found in a different era of time to bring his small band of followers into the future so that he can find those who are trying to fight the time storm. He convinces those future beings that he is capable of fighting the time storm, and ultimately stops it, and gets the girl in the end.
1977
The alien way
Fiction in English
1965
Dragon and the George
James Eckert (Fictitious character), Dragons, Time travel
1976
Necromancer
Fiction in English, Fiction, Science fiction
1962
The Outposter
Fiction in English, American Science fiction, Science Fiction
1972
Dorsai!
American Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Dorsai (imaginary place), fiction
1970
The Hugo Winners [volume I]
American Science fiction, Science fiction, Accessible book
An Anthology of Hugo award winners. The highest prize in Sci-Fi. Each of these stories, by different authors, was voted as the best novella/short story of a particular year. Asimov was also the editor or something. I have read it and loved it. Science Fiction at it's best.
1962
Soldier, Ask Not
Science fiction, Fiction, Interplanetary voyages
1967
Tactics of Mistake
American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, general
1971

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gordon R. Dickson ranks 3,787 out of 7,302. Before him are Hovhannes Shiraz, Amado Nervo, Charles Grandison Finney, Iain Banks, Lise Nørgaard, and Johannes Bobrowski. After him are Viveca Sten, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Walter Kempowski, Francis Marrash, Israel Zangwill, and Zhou Zuoren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Gordon R. Dickson ranks 241. Before him are Rafael Addiego Bruno, Og Mandino, Mrinal Sen, Mikhail Yegorov, Brendan Behan, and Karl Vaino. After him are François Cavanna, Netti Witziers-Timmer, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Giuseppe Rotunno, Morris Halle, and Ioannis Grivas. Among people deceased in 2001, Gordon R. Dickson ranks 162. Before him are Malcom McLean, Robert Leckie, Enrique Mateos, Ninette de Valois, Katharine Graham, and Ken Aston. After him are Mohamed Atta, Micheline Ostermeyer, Jean Richard, John Lewis, Eugene Sledge, and Jenő Fock.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gordon R. Dickson ranks 247 out of 1,622. Before him are Ann Rutherford (1917), Allan Dwan (1885), Phil Esposito (1942), Kenneth Welsh (1942), Elias Koteas (1961), and Daniel Lavoie (1949). After him are Paul Bley (1932), Linda Thorson (1947), Michael Wincott (1958), Roddy Piper (1954), Lawrence Stroll (1959), and Northrop Frye (1912).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Gordon R. Dickson ranks 14. Before him are Anne Carson (1950), Shulamith Firestone (1945), Gabrielle Roy (1909), Mazo de la Roche (1879), Louise Penny (1958), and David Shore (1959). After him are Anne Hébert (1916), Marie-Claire Blais (1939), Robin Sharma (1965), Mordecai Richler (1931), Laurence J. Peter (1919), and Duncan Regehr (1952).

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