{{No footnotes|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox book | name = In the Bone: The Best Science Fiction of Gordon R. Dickson | title_orig = | translator = | image = In the bone.jpg | caption = Cover of the first edition | author = Gordon R. Dickson | illustrator = | cover_artist = Richard Corben | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Science fiction | publisher = Ace Books | release_date = 1987 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Paperback) | pages = 228 pp | isbn = 0-441-37049-7 | oclc= 15339637 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''In the Bone: The Best Science Fiction of Gordon R. Dickson''''' is a collection of science fiction stories by Gordon R. Dickson. It was first published by Ace Books in 1987 and expandsupon Dickson's upon earlier collection, '''Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best''' (1978), published by Dell in 1978 and was edited by James R. Frenkel. Most of the stories had appeared in the magazines ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'', ''Satellite'' and ''If''.

==Contents== ===Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best=== thumb|right|Cover of the first edition of Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best * Introduction - The Quiet Giant, by Spider Robinson * Foreword, by James R. Frenkel * "Hilifter" * "Brother Charlie" * "Act of Creation" * "Idiot Solvant" * "Call Him Lord" * "Tiger Green" * "Of the People" * "Dolphin’s Way" * "In the Bone" * Gordon R. Dickson Bibliography

===In the Bone=== * "Twig" * "God Bless Them" * "Hilifter" * "Brother Charlie" * "Act of Creation" * "Idiot Solvant" * "Call Him Lord" * "Tiger Green" * "Of the People" * "Dolphin’s Way" * "In the Bone"

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Category:1987 short story collections Category:Short story collections by Gordon R. Dickson Category:Ace Books books

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