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Poul Anderson

(Poul William Anderson)

(1926 - 2001)
(Husband of Karen Anderson, father-in-law of Greg Bear)
aka
A A Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P Sanders

About Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson was one of the most prolific and popular writers in science fiction. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, as well as many other awards, notably including the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America for a lifetime of distinguished achievement. With a degree in physics, and a wide knowledge of other fields of science, he was noted for building stories on a solid foundation of real science, as well as for being one of the most skilled creators of fast-paced adventure stories. He was author of over a hundred novels and story collections, and several hundred short stories, as well as several mysteries and non-fiction books. He died in 2001.

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

The Van Rijn Method
(Technic Civilization, book 1)

Young Flandry
(Flandry)

Captain Flandry
(Flandry)

Series

Psychotechnic League
1. Star Ways (1956)
aka The Peregrine
2. The Snows of Ganymede (1958)
3. Virgin Planet (1959)
4. Cold Victory (1982)
5. Starship (1982)
The Psychotechnic League (omnibus) (1981)

Hoka (with Gordon R Dickson)
Earthman's Burden (1957)
Star Prince Charlie (1975)
Hoka! (1983)
Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! (1983)
Hokas Pokas (2000)
The Sound and the Furry: The Complete Hoka Stories (omnibus) (2001)

Future history of the Polesotechnic League
2. The Trouble Twisters (1966)
War of the Wing-Men (1958)
aka The Man who Counts
Trader to the Stars (1964)
Satan's World (1969)
Mirkheim (1977)
The Earth Book of Stormgate (1978)

Flandry
We Claim These Stars (1959)
Earthman, Go Home! (1960)
Mayday Orbit (1961)
Let the Spacemen Beware! (1963)
     aka The Night Face
Agent of the Terran Empire (1965)
Flandry of Terra (1965)
Ensign Flandry (1966)
The Rebel Worlds (1966)
     aka Commander Flandry
A Circus of Hells (1970)
The Day of Their Return (1974)
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (1974)
     aka Knight Flandry
A Stone in Heaven (1979)
Poul Anderson Flandry of Terra Novels (omnibus) (1982)
The Long Night (1983)
The Game of Empire (1985)
Flandry (omnibus) (1993)
Rise of the Terran Empire (omnibus) (2009)
Young Flandry: The Technic Civilization Saga (omnibus) (2009)
Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (omnibus) (2010)

Trygve Yamamura
1. Perish by the Sword (1959)
2. Murder in Black Letter (1960)
3. Murder Bound (1962)

Time Patrol
1. Guardians of Time (1961)
2. Time Patrolman (1983)
3. The Year of the Ransom (1988)
4. The Shield of Time (1990)
Annals of the Time Patrol (omnibus) (1983)
The Time Patrol (omnibus) (1991)

Holger Danske
Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961)
A Midsummer Tempest (1974)

Last Viking (with Karen Anderson)
1. The Golden Horn (1980)
2. The Road of the Sea Horse (1980)
3. The Sign of the Raven (1980)

Berserker (with Edward Bryant, Stephen Donaldson, Larry Niven, Fred Saberhagen, Connie Willis and Roger Zelazny)
6. Berserker Base: A Collaberative Novel (1984)

King of Ys (with Karen Anderson)
1. Roma Mater (1986)
2. The Gallicenae (1987)
3. Dahut (1988)
4. The Dog and the Wolf (1988)
The King Of YS (omnibus) (1987)

Harvest of Stars
1. Harvest of Stars (1992)
2. The Stars Are Also Fire (1994)
3. Harvest the Fire (1995)
4. The Fleet of Stars (1997)

Hadding
War of the Gods (1997)

Technic Civilization
1. The Van Rijn Method (2008)
2. David Falkayn: Star Trader (2009)

Novels

Vault of the Ages (1952)
The War of Two Worlds (1953)
Brain Wave (1954)
The Broken Sword (1954)
No World of Their Own (1955)
     aka The Long Way Home
Planet of No Return (1956)
     aka Question and Answer
The Enemy Stars (1959)
     aka We Have Fed Our Seas
The High Crusade (1960)
Rogue Sword (1960)
The Golden Slave (1960)
Twilight World: A Science Fiction Novel of Tomorrow's Children (1961)
After Doomsday (1962)
The Makeshift Rocket (1962)
Shield (1963)
Three Worlds to Conquer (1964)
The Star Fox (1965)
The Corridors of Time (1965)
The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin (1966)
World without Stars (1966)
The Horn of Time (1968)
Infinite Voyage (1969)
Tau Zero (1970)
The Dancer from Atlantis (1971)
Operation Chaos (1971)
The Byworlder (1971)
There Will Be Time (1972)
The People of the Wind (1973)
Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1973)
Inheritors of the Earth (1974) (with Gordon Eklund)
The Worlds of Poul Anderson (1974)
Fire Time (1974)
Homeward and Beyond (1975)
The Winter of the World (1976)
The Avatar (1978)
Two Worlds (1978)
The Merman's Children (1979)
The Demon of Scattery (1979) (with Mildred Downey Broxon)
The Devil's Game (1980)
Conquests (1981)
The Dark Between the Stars (1981)
Winners (1981)
Fantasy (1981)
New America (1982)
The Gods Laughed (1982)
Maurai and Kith (1982)
Orion Shall Rise (1983)
New America: Grassy Knoll (1985)
Cold Victory: Grassy Knoll (1985)
No Truce with Kings (1986)
The Boat of a Million Years (1989)
Inconstant Star (1990)
Alight in the Void (1991)
Starfarers (1998)
Operation Luna (1999)
Genesis (2000)
Mother of Kings (2001)
For Love and Glory (2003)

Omnibus

The Imperial Stars (2000)
A Galaxy Trilogy (2007) (with Stanton A Coblentz and George H Smith)

Collections

Orbit Unlimited (1961)
Strangers from Earth (1961)
Time and Stars (1965)
Seven Conquests (1969)
Beyond the Beyond (1969)
Tales of the Flying Mountains (1970)
Un-Man: And Other Novellas (1972)
The Day the Sun Stood Still: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction (1972) (with Gordon R Dickson and Robert Silverberg)
The Queen of Air and Darkness: And Other Stories (1973)
The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson (1974)
aka The Book of Poul Anderson
The Best of Poul Anderson (1976)
Homebrew (1976)
Get Out of My Sky (1980) (with James Blish and Thomas N Scortia)
Explorations (1981)
Operation Otherworld (1983)
Conflict (1983)
The Unicorn Trade (1984) (with Karen Anderson)
Past Times (1984)
Dialogue with Darkness (1985)
Space Folk (1989)
Bat-21 (1990) (with William Anderson)
Kinship with the Stars (1991)
The Armies of Elfland (1992)
All One Universe (1996)
Going for Infinity: A Literary Journey (2002)
To Outlive Eternity: And Other Stories (2007)

Chapbooks

The Saturn Game (1989)
How to Build a Planet (1991) (with Stephen W Gillett)

Novellas

The Burning Bridge (2008)

Short Stories

Security (1953)
Losers' Night (1991)

Series contributed to

Nebula Award Stories
Nebula Award Stories 4 (1968)

Conan
Conan the Rebel (1980)

Anthologies edited

A World Named Cleopatra (1977)
Mercenaries of Tomorrow (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
Terrorists of Tomorrow (1985) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
Time Wars (1986) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
Space Wars (1988) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
The Night Fantastic (1991) (with Karen Anderson)
Murasaki (1992) (with Martin H Greenberg and Robert Silverberg)

Non fiction

Is There Life on Other Worlds? (1968)
Method of Holding the Three Ones (1980)

Anthologies containing stories by Poul Anderson

Things (1951)
Astoundimg Science Fiction Vol. 10 No. 1 (1954)
Time to Come (1954)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 4th Series (1955)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 6th Series (1957)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 7th Series (1958)
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 1 (1959)
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1959)
13 Great Stories of Science Fiction (1960)
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1960)
Get Out of My Sky (1960)
Analog 1 (1963)
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1963)
Novelets of Science Fiction (1963)
Spectrum 3 (1963)
The Best Science Fiction Stories 3 (1964)
The Weird Ones (1965)
Dangerous Visions 2 (1967)
Tales of Terror (1967)
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968)
Four for the Future (1969)
A Wilderness of Stars (1970)
The Hugo Winners 1968-1970 (1971)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year (1972)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 2 (1973)
The Edge of Never (1973)
The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 (1973)
The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology (1973)
Nebula Award Stories 8 (1973)
Nebula Award Stories 7 (1973)
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2A (1973)
Final Stage (1974)
The Devil's Kisses (1976)
Frights: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Terror (1976)
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
Exiles (1977)
The Hugo Winners 1971-1975 (1977)
The Hugo Winners Volume 3, Part 2: 1973 (1977)
The Infinite Arena (1977)
Trips in Time (1977)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 4 (1978)
The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979)
Frights 1 (1979)
Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979)
The Science Fictional Solar System (1979)
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 (1981)
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 11 (1982)
The Great SF Stories 9: 1947 (1983)
Nebula Award Stories 17 (1983)
Sci-Fi Private Eye (1984)
Mercenaries of Tomorrow (1985)
Terrorists of Tomorrow (1985)
Time Wars (1986)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
The Man-Kzin Wars (1988)
Space Wars (1988)
The Great SF Stories 19: 1957 (1989)
New Destinies, Vol. VIII (1989)
New Destinies, Vol. VII (1989)
Full Spectrum 3 (1991)
The Night Fantastic (1991)
Aliens and UFO's: Extraterrestrial Tales from Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1993)
Future Earths : Under South American Skies (1993)
The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s (1993)
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1993)
The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1993)
The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
Commando Brigade 3000 (1994)
Nebula Award-Winning Novellas (1994)
Dinosaurs (1995)
Far Futures (1995)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Nanodreams (1995)
New Legends (1995)
Tomorrow Bites (1995)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1996)
Monster Brigade 3000 (1996)
The Science Fiction Century (1996)
The Williamson Effect (1996)
The Year's Best Science Fiction Thirteenth Annual Collection (1996)
Cyber-Killers (1997)
Free Space (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
Nebula Awards 33 (1999)
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000)
The Furthest Horizon (2000)

Short stories

	Tomorrow's Children (1947)
	Time Heals (1949)
	Flight to Forever (1950)
	Gypsy (1950)
	Quixote and the Windmill (1950)
	The Star Beast (1950)
	Duel on Syrtis (1951)
	Earthman, Beware (1951)
	The Star Plunderer (1952)
	The Disintegrating Sky (1953)
	Horse Trader (1953)
	The Nest (1953)
	Sam Hall (1953)
	Brain Wave (1954)
	Butch (1954)
	Ghetto (1954)
	The Immortal Game (1954)
	Delenda Est (1955)
	Joy in Mudville (1955) (with Gordon R Dickson)
	The Soldier from the Stars (1955)
	The Barbarian (1956)
	The Man Who Came Early (1956)
	Operation Afreet (1956)
	Operation Chaos (1956)
	Among Thieves (1957)
	Call Me Joe (1957)
	For the Duration (1957)
	Journey's End (1957)
	The Light (1957)
	The Long Remembering (1957)
	The Valor of Cappen Varra (1957)
	Ballade of an Artificial Satellite (1958)
	The Last of the Deliverers (1958)
	The Martian Crown Jewels (1958)
	Wildcat (1958)
	Operation Incubus (1959)
	Sister Planet (1959)
	The Sky People (1959)
	Wherever You Are (1959) (writing as Winston P Sanders)
	Barnacle Bull (1960) (writing as Winston P Sanders)
	The Longest Voyage (1960)		Hugo
	Welcome (1960)
	Kings Who Die (1962)
	Conversation in Arcady (1963)
	No Truce with Kings (1963)		Hugo
	The Life of Your Time (1965) (writing as Michael Karageorge)		Nebula (nominee)
	Marque and Reprisal (1965)		Hugo (nominee)
	Escape the Morning (1966)
	High Treason (1966)
	Elementary Mistake (1967) (writing as Winston P Sanders)
	Eutopia (1967)
	Kyrie (1968)		Nebula (nominee)
	The Sharing of Flesh (1968)		Nebula (nominee) Hugo
	The Dipteroid Phenomenon (1969)
	The Communicators (1970)
	The Fatal Fulfillment (1970)		Nebula (nominee)
	SOS (1970)
	A Feast for the Gods (1971) (with Karen Anderson)
	A Little Knowledge (1971)
	Murphy's Hall (1971)
	The Queen of Air and Darkness (1971)		Nebula Hugo
	A Chapter of Revelation (1972)
	Fortune Hunter (1972)
	Goat Song (1972)		Nebula Hugo
	The Little Monster (1973)
	Lodestar (1973)
	The Visitor (1974)
	The Voortrekkers (1974)
	Dialogue (1976)
	House Rule (1976)
	The Kitten (1976) (with Karen Anderson)
	The Tale of Hauk (1977)
	Hunter's Moon (1978)		Hugo
	The Gate of the Flying Knives (1979)
	The Ways of Love (1979)		Nebula (nominee)
	The Saturn Game (1981)		Nebula Hugo
	Deathwomb (1983)
	Quest (1983)
	Vulcan's Forge (1983)
	Fairy Gold (1984)
	Pride (1985)
	Iron (1988)
	Strangers (1988)
	Cradle Song (1989)
	Origin (1989)
	Statesmen (1989)
	Symmetry (1989)
	Amazement of the World (1990)
	Beringia (1990)
	Women and Horses and Power and War (1990)
	Rokuro (1991)
	Genesis (1995)
	Scarecrow (1995)
	Inside Passage (1996)
	Tyranny (1997)
	The Martyr (1998)
	The Chapter Ends
	Courier of Chaos
	Sentiment, Inc.

Awards

	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1959) : The Enemy Stars
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1961) : The Longest Voyage
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1961) : The High Crusade
	Hugo Best Short story winner (1964) : No Truce with Kings
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1966) : The Life of Your Time
	Hugo Best Short story nominee (1966) : Marque and Reprisal
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1966) : The Star Fox
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1969) : The Sharing of Flesh
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1969) : The Sharing of Flesh
	Nebula Best Short story nominee (1969) : Kyrie
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1971) : The Fatal Fulfillment
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1971) : Tau Zero
	Hugo Best Novella winner (1972) : The Queen of Air and Darkness
	Nebula Best Novellette winner (1972) : The Queen of Air and Darkness
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1972) : The Byworlder
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1973) : Goat Song
	Nebula Best Novellette winner (1973) : Goat Song
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1973) : There Will Be Time
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1973) : The Dancer from Atlantis
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1974) : Hrolf Kraki's Saga
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1974) : The People of the Wind
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1974) : The People of the Wind
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel winner (1975) : A Midsummer Tempest
	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1975) : A Midsummer Tempest
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1975) : Fire Time
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel winner (1975) : Hrolf Kraki's Saga
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1976) : A Midsummer Tempest
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1979) : Hunter's Moon
	Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1980) : The Ways of Love
	Hugo Best Novella winner (1982) : The Saturn Game
	Nebula Best Novella winner (1982) : The Saturn Game
	Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1984) : Orion Shall Rise
	Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1990) : The Boat of a Million Years
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1990) : The Boat of a Million Years
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1990) : The Boat of a Million Years
	Prometheus Award Best Novel winner (1995) : The Stars Are Also Fire
	Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1998) : The Fleet of Stars
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1999) : Starfarers
	John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (2001) : Genesis

Books about Poul Anderson

Against Time's Arrow: The High Crusade of Poul Anderson (1978) by Sandra Miesel
Poul Anderson - Myth-Maker and Wonder-Weaver: An Interim Bibliography (1947-1985) (1982) by Gordon Benson
Poul Anderson (1989) by Phil Stephensen-Payne

Poul Anderson recommends

The Black Flame (1939) Stanley G Weinbaum "In his short career, Stanley G. Weinbaum revolutionized science fiction. We are still exploring the themes he gave us. How good to have this early work again, and now with the author's complete text. It is not only of great historical interest, it is a colorful, inventive, and exciting story."	Silverlock (1949) (Silverlock, book 1) John Myers Myers "Here in your hands is the stuff of wonder."	Picnic on Paradise (1968) Joanna Russ "An extraordinary book!"
Fourth Mansions (1969) R A Lafferty "In this book he surpasses himself. It is wild, subtle, demonic, angelic, hilarious, tragic, poetic, a thundering melodrama and a quest into the depths of the human spirit."	Golem 100 (1980) Alfred Bester "Very few writers of any kind have anything like his inventiveness, audacity and sparkling language."	Blood Music (1985) Greg Bear "A dazzling flight of disciplined imagination! One of the most interesting stories to come along in years!"
The Incorporated Knight (1987) (Incorporated Knight) Catherine Crook de Camp and L Sprague de Camp "You have a treat in store."	Timemaster (1992) Robert L Forward "A happy romp through a range of ideas about the universe and what we can do in it."	Fallway (1993) Paula E Downing "An exciting, imaginative tale of conflict between species, cultures, and individuals."
High Steel (1993) Jack Dann and Jack C Haldeman, II "A hymn to the spirit of freedom."	Glory (1993) (Goldenwing Cycle, book 1) Alfred Coppel "A tale that is moving as well as exciting, set in a universe of wonders, with language that sings and roars."	Demon Moon (1994) Jack Williamson "Demon Moon gives us not only an exciting story and people we care about, but a world realized with extraordinary depth and vividness."
Over the River and Through the Woods (1995) Clifford D Simak " . . . he wrote for so long and always so well that his excellence came to be taken for granted, as we take sunlight for granted until we go blind."	The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil (1998) Avram Davidson and Grania Davis "What a scary story, like a modern Dracula but completely original in its concept and chillingly realistic in its narration. Avram Davidson was one of the finest writers the fantasy field has had, endlessly inventive and uniquely vivid. Grania Davis has completed this work, which he left unfinished, in a way that does him proud."	Wisdom of the Fox: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King (As If He Had a Choice) (1999) Harry Turtledove "Harry Turtledove has established himself as the grand master..."
The King's Peace (2000) (Tir Tanagiri, book 1) Jo Walton "The King's Peace beautifully and thought-provokingly tells a story set in a world and a history almost like ours, but different enough to be in itself a kind of elvenland. It's good to know that there will be more."	Shadow of the Seer (2001) (Winter of the World, book 6) Michael Scott Rohan "Scott Rohan has an extraordinary gift for making every scene come to life with vivid reality."	Noise (2003) Hal Clement "For well over half a century, Hal Clement has been a towering, even decisive figure in our special literature."

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