The Independent - London, February 2nd, 2001
THOUGH HE left Canada with his family in the late 1930s, Gordon R. Dickson never lost the mark of his native land. A tang of loss, a sense of the cost of living in close proximity to an indecipherable wilderness, shaped his novels as clearly as it shapes the songs of Neil Young, a fellow exile. Dickson was the most prominent Canadian science-fiction writer of his generation.
Gordon Rupert Dickson was born in 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta, into a family of some literary interest. His older half-brother, Lovat Dickson, 22 years older than Gordon, became a well-known biographer and publisher in Brit...
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