Dickson: 506 books

When a groggy Martian forgets the toilet seat after a wild wedding night, his new bride—the Queen of Venus—promptly declares war.  So much for the honeymoon.  Forgetting his pants, he flees his dripping bride in a dash for the safety of Mars, but the wacky space race is already off to...

There are many legends on the planet of the Dorsai, the breeding ground for heroes. Here are two of them. Lost Dorsai: The New Dorsai Companion contains the Hugo Award winning novella, Lost Dorsai, and Dickson's classic short story "Warrior."

A collection containing Secret Under the Sea, Secret Under Antarctica, and Secret Under the Caribbean. Gordon R. Dickson's Robby Hoenig adventures are timeless young adult stories in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke's Dolphin Island. Secret Under the Sea: Dive into adventure in the last unknown territory...

Embraced with zeal by a wide array of activists and policymakers, the restorative justice movement has made promises to reduce the disproportionate rates of Aboriginal involvement in crime and the criminal justice system and to offer a healing model suitable to Aboriginal communities. Such promises...

Five Outs from the World Series: The title is one of 39 selected commentaries capturing the flavor and times of several decades leading up to 2005. From the death of a Ford Fairlane 500, to the hazards of moose, to the Boston Red Sox's devastating loss in the 2003 ALCS to the Evil Empire, this is a humor and entertainment-packed read.

As rich and diverse as its subject, Dickson’s magisterial history brings 1,400 years of Dublin vividly to life: from its medieval incarnation through the neoclassical eighteenth century, the Easter Rising that convulsed the city in 1916, the bloody civil war following the handover of power by Britain, to end-of-millennium urban renewal efforts.

When an elite star trooper freezes on the battlefield, Doctor Bill Morris races to find the seed to the hallucination that stopped him flat.  Elite troops are tough, fearless, and immune to such attacks.  If the enemy has found a new virus, the Empire's iron-fisted dominance may come to...

One of the wonderful experiences of my Waldorf teacher training was reading Rudolf Steiner’s Fifth Gospel transcripts, with a group of friends, aloud, round-robin style, in a comfy living room. We read a chapter each night over the 12 Days of Christmas. If you've done this, you may also have felt...

In Earnestly Contending, Dickson Bruce examines the ways in which religious denominations and movements in antebellum America coped with the ideals of freedom and pluralism that exerted such a strong influence on the larger, national culture. Despite their enormous normative power, these still-evolving...

Why has such a small nation and its people--Israel and the Jews--been the target of so much hatred, for so long? Today's alarming headlines from the Middle East, and tomorrow's trajectory for the region, cannot truly be understood without knowing its complicated history. Israel has been...

IN its earlier abridged form this address was given as a Phi Beta Kappa oration at Brown University, and, as a lecture, at New York, Boston, New Haven, Ann Arbor, and elsewhere. In that form, substantially, it was published in THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. I have now given it careful revision, correcting...

For a kid in the seventh grade, skipping the Halloween Hop would normally be a bad choice.  For Leo Rystrom, it might be the best decision around, especially when the most popular girl in school asks him to the dance.  It's only after he agrees that he remembers one very important fact: ...

When the Christmas present of the nicest girl in school goes missing, Paul Stevens suspects the school bully, a sixth-grader destined for a lump of coal on that magical morning.  For a skinny little fourth-grader to tackle a schoolyard gang would be insane... but to save Christmas, that's exactly...

Three delightful Halloween tales of ticklish tricks and tasty treats from Richard Alan Dickson and Tor Richardson.  Fire up the flashlight, tuck the blanket to your chin, and take a welcome trip down memory lane.  Stories include "Big Enough for Halloween," "The Menace of the Unseen Terror," and "Boo?  Boo Who?"