New Releases by Gordon R. Dickson

"Several hundred years ago a band of explorers were marooned on Planet Earth. Alas, the Little People are not strong on gadgetry, and they have had to while away the centuries of their youth, living for the day when they could get off this god-forsaken mudball, this most benighted, desolate--and boring!--planetary slum in the Known Universe. At last, the time has come. All they need now is a human--a young one will do--to help them hijack a Shuttle to take them to where their rescue awaits. And that shouldn''t be too hard, for what All-American boy could resist giving a hand to a friendly leprechaun?"--Back cover.

A sudden change of orders sends terraforming engineer Bill Waltham to the backwater planet Dilbia to teach the bearlike natives the basics of techno-farming. But the Dilbians want nothing to do with techno-farming, and Waltham is challenged to a duel that will decide the fate of the entire world.

The girl, a victim of the time storm, goes beyond the limits of the universe to bring Marc Despard the understanding that will set him free while the leopard reaches out beyond death itself to touch both of them

Giles Steel Ahsad Adelman finds himself adrift in a tiny lifeboat with a group of human slaves and two alien crewmen. Only the aliens know how to pilot the vessel - and they have lost the will to live. This novel of disaster and survival comes from the author of Planet of the Damned.

"A human spokesman attempts to save himself and others from the death-in-space credo of the Albenareth commander of their emergency spacecraft." -- Goodreads.com

"Here are 9 stories of interstellar exploration, of adventure at the dawn of star flight and at the ultimate end of star flight, of man versus machine, of man versus nature, and of man versus the cosmos."--Goodreads.com

It''s obvious that Cletus Graeme--limping, mild-mannered scholarly--doesn''t belong on a battling field, but instead at a desk working on his fourth book on battle strategy and tactics. But Bakhalla has more battlefields than libraries, and Graeme sees his small force of Dorsai--soldiers of fortune--as the perfect opportunity to test his theories. But if his theories or his belief in the Dorsai lead him astray, he''s a dead man.