Next year three of his solo efforts were published by John W. Campbell in Astounding Science Fiction and one appeared in Planet Stories.

Anderson and Dickson also inaugurated the Hoka series with "The Sheriff of Canyon Gulch" (Other Worlds Science Stories, May 1951).

[5] John Clute has characterized Dickson as a "gregarious, engaging, genial, successful man of letters" who had not been an introvert.

[2] Clute has pointed out that Dickson, like Poul Anderson, with whom he collaborated in the Hoka series, "[tends] to infuse an austere Nordic pathos into wooded, rural midwestern American settings.

[6] In 1974 Dickson donated to the Manuscripts Division of the University of Minnesota Libraries notes, outlines, and drafts for more than 240 short stories and 36 novels and novelettes.