Gordon R. Dickson Reading Order

33 books (1952–2014)

Start with Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy December 1952 Vol 3 No 7, the first of 33 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Imagination: Stories of Science and Fantasy December 1952 Vol 3 No 7 1952Buy 🇺🇸
2	Space Service 1953Buy 🇺🇸
3	Star Science Fiction Stories No. 6 1953Buy 🇺🇸
4	Analog 3 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1965 July 1965Buy 🇺🇸
6	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, December 1965 1965Buy 🇺🇸
7	Analog 6 1969Buy 🇺🇸
8	Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969 1969Buy 🇺🇸
9	Analog Science Fiction And Fact, May 1971 1971Buy 🇺🇸
10	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1971 1971Buy 🇺🇸
11	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1971 1971Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Day the Sun Stood Still 1972Buy 🇺🇸
13	The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding 1973Buy 🇺🇸
14	Wondermakers 2 1974Buy 🇺🇸
15	Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium 1975Buy 🇺🇸
16	Alpha 6 1976Buy 🇺🇸
17	Beyond Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸
18	Nebula Awards 12 1978Buy 🇺🇸
19	Nebula Winners No. 12: Sfwa's Choices for the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year 1978Buy 🇺🇸
20	Rod Serling's Other Worlds 1978Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Three: Nebula Winners 1965-1969 1981Buy 🇺🇸
22	Weekend Book of Science Fiction 1981Buy 🇺🇸
23	Science Fiction A to Z 1982Buy 🇺🇸
24	Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers 1988Buy 🇺🇸
25	A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling 1989Buy 🇺🇸
26	Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
27	Dragons 1997Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Good Old Stuff 1998Buy 🇺🇸
29	Robert Silverberg Presents the Great Science Fiction Stories (1964) 2001Buy 🇺🇸
30	The World Turned Upside Down 2005Buy 🇺🇸
31	Already Among Us 2012Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Good Stuff 2013Buy 🇺🇸
33	Anthropomorphic Aliens 2014Buy 🇺🇸

11 books (1960–2007)

Start with Dorsai! / The Genetic General, the first of 11 books in the Childe Cycle series.

#	Title
1	Dorsai! / The Genetic General 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Necromancer / No Room for Man 1962Buy 🇺🇸
3	Soldier, Ask Not 1964Buy 🇺🇸
4	Tactics Of Mistake 1971Buy 🇺🇸
5	Spirit of Dorsai 1979Buy 🇺🇸
6	Lost Dorsai 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Final Encyclopedia 1984Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Chantry Guild 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	Young Bleys 1991Buy 🇺🇸
10	Other 1994Buy 🇺🇸
11	Antagonist(With: David W. Wixon) 2007Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1986–1986)

#	Title
1	The Dorsai Companion 1986Buy 🇺🇸

19 books (1952–2003)

Start with Time Grabber, the first of 19 books in the Collections series.

#	Title
1	Time Grabber 1952Buy 🇺🇸
2	Analog 1 1964Buy 🇺🇸
3	Planet Run(By: Keith Laumer) 1967Buy 🇺🇸
4	Danger-human 1970Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Book of Gordon Dickson 1970Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Star Road 1973Buy 🇺🇸
7	In Iron Years 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	Love Not Human 1981Buy 🇺🇸
9	Forward 1985Buy 🇺🇸
10	Invaders 1985Buy 🇺🇸
11	The Man the Worlds Rejected 1986Buy 🇺🇸
12	In the Bone 1987Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Stranger 1987Buy 🇺🇸
14	Beginnings 1988Buy 🇺🇸
15	Ends 1988Buy 🇺🇸
16	Guided Tour 1988Buy 🇺🇸
17	Bootcamp 3000 1992Buy 🇺🇸
18	Hour of the Gremlins 2002Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Human Edge 2003Buy 🇺🇸

10 books (1977–1989)

Start with The Cold Cash War(By: Robert Lynn Asprin), the first of 10 books in the Combat Command series.

#	Title
1	The Cold Cash War(By: Robert Lynn Asprin) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
2	Cut by Emerald(By: Dana Kramer) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Shines the Name(By: Mark Acres) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Omega Rebellion(By: Troy Denning) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	Lord of Lances(By: Mark Acres) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Slammers Down!(By: Todd Johnson) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Black Road War(By: Neil Randall) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Legion At War(By: J. Andrew Keith) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	Cold Cash Warrior(By: Bill Fawcett,Robert Lynn Asprin) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
10	Dorsai's Command 1989Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1960–2000)

Start with Spacial Delivery and read in order.

#	Title
1	Spacial Delivery 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Space Paw 1969Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Right to Arm Bears 2000Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1976–2000)

Start with The Dragon and the George, the first of 9 books in the Dragon and the George series.

#	Title
1	The Dragon and the George 1976Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Dragon Knight 1990Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Dragon at War 1992Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Dragon on the Border 1992Buy 🇺🇸
5	The Dragon, the Earl, and the Troll 1994Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Dragon and The Djinn 1996Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Dragon & the Gnarly King 1997Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Dragon in Lyonesse 1998Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent 2000Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1957–2000)

Start with Earthman's Burden, the first of 4 books in the Hoka series.

#	Title
1	Earthman's Burden 1957Buy 🇺🇸
2	Star Prince Charlie 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hoka! 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hokas Pokas! 2000Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1983–1983)

#	Title
1	Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! 1983Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1985–1985)

#	Title
1	Beyond the Dar Al-Harb 1985Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1992–1992)

#	Title
1	Green Guide: Mushrooms and Toadstools 1992Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1967–1978)

Start with The Space Swimmers and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Space Swimmers 1967Buy 🇺🇸
2	Home from the Shore 1978Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1953–2011)

Start with No Shield from the Dead and read in order.

37 books (1956–1995)

Start with Alien from Arcturus / Arcturus Landing, the first of 37 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Alien from Arcturus / Arcturus Landing 1956Buy 🇺🇸
2	Mankind on the Run / On the Run 1956Buy 🇺🇸
3	Time to Teleport 1960Buy 🇺🇸
4	Delusion World 1961Buy 🇺🇸
5	Naked to the Stars 1961Buy 🇺🇸
6	Mission to Universe 1965Buy 🇺🇸
7	Space Winners 1965Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Alien Way 1965Buy 🇺🇸
9	None but Man 1969Buy 🇺🇸
10	Wolfling 1969Buy 🇺🇸
11	Hour of the Horde 1970Buy 🇺🇸
12	Mutants 1970Buy 🇺🇸
13	Sleepwalker's World 1971Buy 🇺🇸
14	The Outposter 1971Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Pritcher Mass 1972Buy 🇺🇸
16	Alien Art 1973Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Last Master 1973Buy 🇺🇸
18	The R-Master 1973Buy 🇺🇸
19	Ancient, My Enemy 1974Buy 🇺🇸
20	Gremlins Go Home(With: Ben Bova) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Lifeship / Lifeboat(With: Harry Harrison) 1975Buy 🇺🇸
22	Time Storm 1977Buy 🇺🇸
23	Pro 1978Buy 🇺🇸
24	The Far Call 1978Buy 🇺🇸
25	Masters of Everon 1979Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Man from Earth 1983Buy 🇺🇸
27	Jamie the Red 1984Buy 🇺🇸
28	Survival 1984Buy 🇺🇸
29	Secrets of the Deep 1985Buy 🇺🇸
30	Steel Brother 1985Buy 🇺🇸
31	Mindspan 1986Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Forever Man 1986Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Last Dream 1986Buy 🇺🇸
34	Way of the Pilgrim 1987Buy 🇺🇸
35	The Earth Lords 1988Buy 🇺🇸
36	Wolf and Iron 1990Buy 🇺🇸
37	The Magnificent Wilf 1995Buy 🇺🇸

8 books (1974–1981)

Start with Stellar #1(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey), the first of 8 books in the Stellar series.

#	Title
1	Stellar #1(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
2	Stellar #2(By: Isaac Asimov,Larry Niven,Howard Waldrop,Clifford D. Simak,Jack C. Haldeman II,Steven Utley,Hal Clement,James White,Richard S. Simak,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Patrick G. Conner) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
3	Stellar Short Novels(With: Andrew J. Offutt,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Shawn Oueinsteen) 1976Buy 🇺🇸
4	Stellar #3(By: Jack L. Chalker,Clifford D. Simak,Gene DeWeese,Jeffrey M. Wallman,Charles W. Runyon,Mildred Downey Broxon,Henry Melton,Judy-Lynn del Rey,Arsen Darney,B. Lee Cooper,Larry S. Haverkos,Steve Utley,Bill Starr) 1977Buy 🇺🇸
5	Stellar #4(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
6	Stellar #5(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	Stellar #6(By: Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
8	Stellar #7(By: Terry Carr,Leanne Frahm,Judy-Lynn del Rey) 1981Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1960–1964)

Start with Secret Under the Sea and read in order.

#	Title
1	Secret Under the Sea 1960Buy 🇺🇸
2	Secret under Antarctica 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	Secret Under the Caribbean 1964Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1991–1993)

Start with The Harriers / Of War and Honor(With: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro) and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Harriers / Of War and Honor(With: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro) 1991Buy 🇺🇸
2	Blood and War(With: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Christopher Stasheff) 1993Buy 🇺🇸
3	Blood and War(With: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,Christopher Stasheff) 1993Buy 🇺🇸