Gordon was the computer aboard the SS Scott Fitzgerald.

He was an eleventh-generation AI holographic computer, a more recent and more efficient design than the tenth-generation Holly, designed to operate a space vessel. He had an IQ of approximately 8000... or so it was claimed.

When Holly was asked to play postal chess with Gordon, he jumped at the chance. The first move arrived as a video letter from Gordon, which didn't reach Holly for three million years. Gordon spoke with a very broad London accent and treated Holly as a chess rookie, describing pawns as "the little knobbly ones down the front". He made his move and then said goodbye to Holly, but couldn't even switch off the recording by himself ("RD: Better Than Life|Better Than Life").