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'''Gordon R. Dickson''' is an American SF and fantasy writer, best known for his [[Childe Cycle]]/Dorsai future history.
His other works include the [[Dragon Knight]] series, in which a couple of 20th-century graduate students find themselves in an alternate world that resembles Medieval England but with magic, dragons, and fairies; and the comedy [[Hoka]] series, co-written with [[Poul Anderson]], about a planet whose inhabitants spend all their time pretending to be characters from Earth fiction.
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* [[Childe Cycle]]
* [[The Dragon Knight]] series
* [[Hoka]] series
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* [[Deflector Shields]]: In ''Way of the Pilgrim'' the personal force-shield of any Aalag soldier would allow him to hold out indefinitely against any weapons humanity could throw at him. Even nukes. The ship-board version is presumably even more robust.
* [[Heavyworlder]]: In a short story, which adds an uncommon corollary: things fall faster (or rather, accelerate at a higher rate) on a high-gravity world. One alien from such a world is somewhat stronger, but much faster, because falling over on such a planet is a ''bad'' idea and being able to catch falling things is usually helpful too.
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