Richard Alexander Steuart Gordon (18 May 1947 – 7 February 2009) was a Scottish author born in Banff, Scotland who wrote numerous science fiction novels, encyclopedias, and travel guides.

Gordon studied history at Newcastle University and was offered post-graduate work, but instead he accepted a job as a market researcher.

[2] Gordon collapsed at the Lianhua Road Subway Station in the Shanghai Metro of a heart attack and died in hospital on 7 February 2009.

While Gordon only ever wrote one fictional piece set in Scotland (1975's Suaine and the Crow God), the characters in his other books occasionally pass through his hometown.

In the late 1980s Gordon ventured into non-fiction and before his death he completed a number of works on the paranormal and a series of illustrated walking and history guides of northern Scotland.