The Space Swimmers
ON
ONE MAN RESTS THE FATE OF THE WORLD --- Six years ago, Johnny Joya led the
sea-born Cadets of the Space Academy back to the sea. He knew that the sea
and land-born must separate or clash. When the Cadets refused to return to
the Land, the Sea-People were declared outlaws . hunted and killed like animals
in a one-sided war without quarter. --- Now one of the hunters offers the
Sea-People safety - but at a price: Johnny Joya must lead his people after
the Space Swimmers, along the golden roads between the stars, but not for
themselves - for the Land. --- The fuse is lit, will Land and Sea smash in
a final explosion or merge into a future undreamed of by both ?
The Dragon and The George
Novels
Arcturus Landing/Alien from Arcturus
(1956) |
Mankind on the
Run
Ed Valigursky
(1956) |
Time
To Teleport
Ed
Emshwiller
(1960) |
Delusion World
Stephen
Hickman
(1961) |
Naked to the Stars
(1961)
Paul Lehr |
Mission
to Universe
Tom
Kidd
"The Alien Way" |
Space Winners
|
Planet Run w/Keith Laumer
Paul Lehr
|
None but Man
(1967)
Don Maitz |
Wolfling
Tom Kidd
|
Hour of the Horde
(1970)
Greg Theakston |
Sleepwalker's World
(1971)
Frank Kelly Freas |
Outposter
(1982)
Thomas
Kidd |
The Pritcher Mass
(1972)
Frank Kelly Freas |
The R-Master
(1973)
Tom Kidd |
Alien Art
(1973) |
Gremlins Go Home w/ Ben Bova
Tom Kidd
|
Lifeboat w/ Harry Harrison
Peter
Elson
|
Time Storm
Peter Elson
|
The Far Call
(1978) |
Pro
James R Odbert |
Masters of Everon
Mike Hinge
|
The Man From Earth
|
Jamie The Red w/Roland Green
|
The Forever Man
James Gurney
|
Way of the Pilgrim
1987 |
The Earth Lords |
Wolf and Iron
|
The
Magnificent Wilf
Ruth Sanderson
1995 |
Alien from
Arcturus (1956)/ Arcturus Landing (1979)
A
story of Johnny Parent, who, with an eccentric young playboy and his pretty
but ambitious secretary, become interplanetary blockade runners, plotting
the development of a space drive which would lift the Quarantine against Earth
and earn Earth its due place in the Universe.
Mankind
on the Run (1956)/ On the Run(1979)
Kil
and Ellen Bruner were Class-A citizens, labelled as privileged and stable
by the Key that every man, woman and child wore in the well-ordered world
created after the Lucky War. Then Ellen vanished, and suddenly all Kil's privilege
isn't enough to bring her back to him. The layers of intrigue he is able
to unwrap show him only the beginning of a great plot against established
society - a plot that somehow involves Ellen. For the first time he feels
doors closing around him, hears the official silence of the World Police,
feels the great weight of authority's disapproval, and learns what it means
to be a man alone. His desperate search for his wife will cost him everything
he thought he believed in as he digs ever deeper into the ugly reality behind
the façade of his world's peace and security, and finds himself at
last.
Time to
Teleport (1960)
"Walls
could not stop them"
Delusion
World (1961)
If
you don't look, she'll go away.
Naked to
the Stars (1961)
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 deadly to his fellow soldiers -- and to Earth. Somehow
Cal means to seek out whatever it is that his mind is resisting ...
The Alien
Way (1965)/
Mission
to Universe (1965)
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.
Space Winners
(1965)
Ingram
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.
Planet Run
(1967) with Keith
Laumer
"Once
There Was a Giant"
"Call
Him Lord"
None But
Man (1967)
The
Frontier Rebellion has long been won, thanks in part to the efforts of Culihan
O'Rourke, the best hijacker the Rebels ever had. When he is greeted upon his
return to Earth with beatings, torture, and interrogation, Cully learns the
hard way of the ultimatum issued to Earth by the Moldaug: evacuate the Frontier
or be destroyed.
Wolfling
(1969)
A
hundred years in our future, the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha
Centauri only to discover a vast human empire, long-established and sternly
ruled by the aristocratic High-born. In a stroke Earth becomes merely another
primitive outpost, its people dubbed ‘wolflings’ by the rulers of the Throne
World. Painstakingly chosen and meticulously trained, Jim Keil was sent merely
to observe conditions on the Throne World. The High-born would consider him
no more than a diversion. . . until Keil cast away his orders from Earth and
proved a Wolfling indeed.
Hour of the Horde (1970)
Annihilating
everything before it, a horde of monstrous space travellers were advancing
through the stars. And Earth lay in their route. To defend their home planets,
the worlds that lay in the path of the monsters created a super defense force,
asking each planet to contribute one especially talented warrior to help turn
the invaders away. Miles Vander was Earth's man, but when he arrived at the
rendezvous point he found that he was included in the special task force
of the less civilized defenders. But in the contest of advanced nuclear weaponry
and computer strategy, it turned out to be Vander's group that had the special
independent qualities and the raw courage to meet the challenge the most
effectively.
I read
the "Hour of the Horde" many, many years ago. I believe it can boiled
down to one man out-bluffing an entire alien race.
Sleepwalkers World (1971)
Rafe
Harald, a cosmonaut, attempts to combat the mysterious power that has put
most of the human race into an involuntary sleep.
The Outposter
(1972)
Ingram
A man who once had witnessed the slaughter of human colonists by an alien
race sets out to stop the ongoing raids against Earth's most far-flung outposts.
The
Pritcher Mass (1972)
After
a strange fungal growth had irrevocably contaminated the planet, humanity's
only hope lay in the farthest teaches of the solar system where the incredible
pritcher mass searched psychic wavelengths for living worlds. If one were
found in time, a saving remnant of the race might achieve a new beginning.
But something of earth, an ancient evil,seemed bent on destroying the mass.
The
R-Master (1973)/ The Last Master (1984)
The
World Economic Council said the world had become Utopia. There should be
no cause for dissatisfaction. But for those who were still restless, there
was the new mind-stimulating drug R-47.Those who took R-47 were engaging in
a sort of lottery whose rare winners would be super-geniuses and whose losers
might be fit only for asylums. Etter Ho, whose brother was one of the
losers, took the drug on the chance that, if he won, he could cure his brother.
But what he became when he emerged from the mainlining was something none
expected. For he became a menace to Utopian order, a danger to those
who knew him, and the only man who might, just possibly, diagnose the real
illnesses of the world.
Alien Art
(1973)
On
the planet Arcadia, a young man and woman and a swamp otter join together
to haul the otter's eleven hundred pound statue overland to meet the deadline
of a prospective buyer from another planet.
Gremlins,
Go Home! (1974)with Ben Bova
Several
hundred years ago a band of explorers were marooned on Planet Earth. Alas,
the Little People are not strong on gadgetry, and they have had to while away
the centuries of their youth, living for the day when they could get off
this god-forsken mudball, this most benighted, delolate--and boring!--planetary
slum in the known universe. At last, the time has come. All they need now
is a human--a young one will do--to help them hijack a Shuttle to take them
to where their rescue awaits. And that shouldn't be too hard, for what All-American
boy could resist giving a hand to a friendly leprechaun?
Lifeboat
(1976) with
Harry Harrison
A
saboteur's bomb ripped through the hull of the seemingly indestructible
galactic liner, leaving bare minutes for the survivors of the alien crew
and human cargo to evacuate the ship. Giles Steel Ahsad, Adelman, found himself
adrift in the tiny lifeboat with a group of human slaves and two Albanareth
crewmen. Only the aliens knew how to pilot the vessel - and they had lost
the will to live.
Time Storm (1977)
Accompanied
by a leopard and a nearly autistic young woman, Marc Despard sets out to
locate his wife, who, along with the rest of humanity, was swept away a time
storm.
The Far
Call (1978)
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 adventure.
Pro (1978)
Harb
Mallard, the ambitious new Sector Chief for the Galactic Expansion Service
decides to circumvent Service guidelines and convert the alien inhabitants
of world 49381D by taking control of a local warlike faction.
Masters
of Everon (1979)
Jef
Robini was heading for Everon with a highly controversial cargo. For eight
years on Earth Jef had tried to rear the maolot cub which was the final legacy
from his brother. But the maolot had failed to grow into the giant cat that
was Everon's largest and most dangerous life-form. And now Jef was returning
the creature to its natural home, the colonized planet of Everon. He knew
the planet was barren. And that he'd have to fight to survive. But nothing
had prepared him for the incomprehensible strangeness, the mind-blasting wonder
of the true Masters of Everon.
The Man
From Earth (1983)
How
has this undistinguished race from a backwater spiral arm won for itself
a galaxy? It is not intellect; a few of them are rather bright, not many.
Their machines? Other races possessed better when the humans conquered them.
Not even valor; many were fiercer far than humans, before the humans came.
What power is in them?
Jamie the
Red (1984)
with Roland Green
What's
a father to do with a son like Jamie? Good-hearted, hot-blooded, quick to
make both friends and enemies, he is too much of a firebrand to stay at home.
The king's heart almost broke when he banished his favorite son,but Jamie
The Red's adventures were only beginning.
The Forever
Man (1986)
The
time is in the future-when the ancient starship La Chasse Gallerie is found
adrift in space. Not only is the ship intact, despite heavy damage form alien
Laai warships, but the voice of its pilot, Raoul Penard, comes through loud
and clear. Upon further investigation on Earth, it becomes apparent that,
although Penard died one hundred years ago, his mind is very much alive, merged
with the ship itself.
Way of the
Pilgrim (1987)
The nine-foot-tall
Aalaag, members of a warrior society, use their advanced technology to treat
humans like cattle. As one of the few people who can speak the alien language,
linguist Shane Evert comes to know and understand the Aalaag even as he hates
them. His gesture of protesta graffito of a pilgrim is picked up by the scattered,
disorganized Resistance, and before long Shane finds himself leading a worldwide
movement for freedom.
The Earth
Lords (1988)
A
hidden labyrinth beneath the Canadian wilderness where dwarfish Lords and
Ladies ride humans like horses - and plot the final downfall of mankind. Bart
Dybig is a "Steed", but one gifted with mental and physical abilities unsuspected
by those who have enslaved him. Soon, he vows, he will surprise the Lords
and escape to the world above - if there's a world to go back to. For the
Earth Lords are building a doomsday device of unimaginable power to completely
destroy mankind. Only Bart and his strange heritage can stop them . .
.
Wolf and
Iron (1990)
The
story of a post holocaust world where society has crumbled and it's every
man fro himself. Jeeris Belamy Waltar or Jeebee is a scientist, a student
of behavior and sociodynamics must travel across a viloent and lawless America
in search of the one refuge where he can keep the spark of science alive.
But he isn't alone. His travel companion is Wolf. A huge gray
animal as fierce and wild as his name. Raised from a pup by a victim
of the Collapse, he adopts Jeebee in place of his murdered master. This is
an unforgettable novel of man and beast . . . and the thin line between them.
The Magnificent
Wilfe (1995)
When
Earth is contacted by a galactic civilization, diplomat Tom Parent and his
linguist wife Lucy must prove that Earth is worthy of acceptance by the rest
of the galaxy as a civilized world rather than as ward of some more "advanced"
species. (Don't take this one seriously,
it's a hoot and a half, just let go and enjoy it!)
Collections
Danger - Human/ The Book of Gordon Dickson
Karel Thole
|
Mutants
Paul Chadwick
1973 |
The Star Road
1973
Eddie Jones |
Ancient,
My Enemy
Greg
Theakson
|
Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best
Rick Bryant
|
In The Bone
Richard Corben
|
In Iron Years
Stephen Hickman
|
Love Not Human
Darrell
K Sweet |
Steel
Brother
Alan
Gutierrez |
Danger - Human (1970)/The Book of Gordon
R Dickson (1973)
Danger
- Human
Dolphin's Way
And Then There Was Peace
The Man from Earth
Black Charlie
Zeepsday
Lulungomeena
An Honorable Death
Flat Tiger
James
The Quarry
Call Him Lord
Steel Brother
Mutants
(1974)
Home
from the Shore
Miss Prinks
The Immortal
Idiot Solvant
By New Hearth Fires
Roofs of Silver
Listen
Rehabilitated
Danger - Human!
Of the People
Warrior
The Star
Road (1973)
Whatever
Gods There Be
Hilifter
Building on the Line
The Christmas Present
3-Part Puzzle
One Messenger Mountain
The Catch
Jackal's Meal
The Mousetrap
Ancient, My Enemy (1974)
Ancient,
My Enemy
The Odd Ones
The Monkey Wrench
Tiger Green
The Friendly Man
Love Me True
Our First Death
In the Bone
The Bleak and Barren Land
Gordon R.
Dickson's SF Best (1978)
Brother
Charlie
In the Bone
Act of Creation
Idiot Solvant
Hilifier
Call Him Lord
Tiger Green
Of the People
Dolphin's Way
In the Bone:The
Best Science Fiction of Gordon R. Dickson (1978)
Twig
God
Bless Them
Hilifter
Brother
Charlie
Act
of Creation
Idiot
Solvant
Call
Him Lord
Tiger
Green
Of
the People
Dolphin's
Way
In
the Bone
In Iron
Years (1980)
In
Iron Years
Homecoming
A Taste of Tenure
The Hours are Good
Gifts
Zeepsday
Things which Are Caesar's
Love Not
Human (1981)
Black
Charlie
Moon,
June, Spoon, Croon
The
Summer Visitors
Listen
Graveyard
Fido
The
Breaking of Jerry McCloud
Love
Me True
The
Christmas Present
It
Hardly Seems Fair
The
Monster and the Maiden
Steel Brother
(1985)
Out
of the Darkness
The
Man in the Mailbag
The
Hard Way
Perfectly
Adjusted
Steel
Brother
The
Childe Cycle Status Report
A
Conversation with Gordon R. Dickson
The Last
Dream (1986)
The Man the Worlds
Rejected (1986)
Mindspan (1986) with Sandra Miesel
Stranger (1986)
Beginnings (1988)
Ends (1988)
Guided Tour (1988)
The Human Edge
(2003)
Gordon R. Dickson
