Quotes by Gordon R. Dickson

About Gordon R. Dickson:

Gordon Rupert Dickson was a Canadian-American science fiction writer. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000.
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Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

Gordon R. Dickson

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

Gordon R. Dickson

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we...

Gordon R. Dickson

Suppose it was even as you think,” he went on, even more gently. “Suppose that all you say was a fact, and that our Elders were but greedy tyrants, ourselves abandoned here by their selfish will and set to fulfill a false and prideful purpose. No...

Gordon R. Dickson

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Gordon R. Dickson

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time’s worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

Gordon R. Dickson

Author Bio

  • NameGordon R. Dickson
  • DescriptionCanadian-American science fiction writer
  • AliasesGordon Dickson
  • BornNovember 1, 1923
  • DiedJanuary 31, 2001
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsNebula Award