Scottish author Richard (Alexander Steuart) Gordon died 7 February 2009 of a heart attack after collapsing at the Lianhua Road Subway Station in Shanghai, China. Born in Banff, Scotland, in 1947, he had been a teacher at Shanghai High School International Division since 2005.
Locus says that Gordon’s first published story was “A Light in the Sky” in the New Worlds anthology (1965). His first novel was The Bikers (1971, by Alex R. Stuart), and his first sf novel came the next year, Time Story (by Stuart Gordon). He wrote two trilogies: the “Eye” series (One-Eye [1973], Two-Eyes [1974], and Three-Eyes [1975]) and the “Watchers” (Archon [1988], The Hidden World [1988], and The Mask [1990]), and nearly twenty other books, including sf, fantasy, and biker novels, as well as non-fiction.
The Shanghai High School has posted a brief obituary (in Chinese) on this page.
Gordon wrote under mostly under the pseudonyms Alex R. Stuart and Stuart Gordon, because “Richard Gordon” was the pseudonym used by English surgeon Gordon Ostlere, who was born in 1921, and wrote more than 15 “Doctor” novels, starting with 1952’s Doctor in the House.