Poul Anderson bibliography
Novels and related short stories
Hoka
- Earthman's Burden (1957) with Gordon R. Dickson
- Star Prince Charlie (1975) with Gordon R. Dickson
- Hoka! (1983) with Gordon R. Dickson
Reissued by Baen as:
- Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! (1998) with Gordon R. Dickson
- Hokas Pokas! (2000) with Gordon R. Dickson
The Psychotechnic League
- Star Ways (also known as The Peregrine) (1956)
- The Snows of Ganymede (1958)
- Virgin Planet (1959)
- The Psychotechnic League (1981)
- Cold Victory (1982)
- Starship (1982)
Tomorrow's Children
- "Tomorrow's Children" (1947) with F. N. Waldrop
- "Chain of Logic" (1947)
- "Children of Fortune" (1961)
- "Epilogue" (1961)
- Twilight World (1961)[2]
Technic History
The technic history stories embrace a single future history embracing the Polesotechnic league, followed by the Terran Empire and eventually a "long night". Key characters include Nicholas van Rijn, Christopher Holm, David Falkayn and Dominic Flandry.[3] Titles are listed here by their internal chronology.
Early period
- The Saturn Game (1981)
Polesotechnic League
- War of the Wing-Men (heavily edited original book publication); later issued with the author's preferred text and title as The Man Who Counts (1958)
- Trader to the Stars (1964) (Prometheus Award), collects:
- "Hiding Place" (1961)
- "Territory" (1963)
- "The Master Key" (1964)
- The Trouble Twisters (features David Falkayn, not Van Rijn) (1966), collects:
- "The Three-Cornered Wheel" (1963)
- "A Sun Invisible" (1966)
- "The Trouble Twisters" (also known as "Trader Team") (1965)
- Satan's World (1969)
- The Earth Book of Stormgate (many stories do not feature Van Rijn) (1978). It collects:
- "Wings of Victory" (1972)
- "The Problem of Pain" (1973)
- "How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson" (1974)
- "Margin of Profit" (1956)
- "Esau" (also known as "Birthright") (1970)
- "The Season of Forgiveness" (1973)
- The Man Who Counts (first appearance of the unedited version of War of the Wing-Men) (1958)
- "A Little Knowledge" (1971)
- "Day of Burning" (also known as "Supernova") (1967)
- "Lodestar" (1973)
- "Wingless" (also known as "Wingless on Avalon") (1973)
- "Rescue on Avalon" (1973)
- Mirkheim (1977)
- The People of the Wind (does not feature Falkayn or Van Rijn) (1973)—Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1974[4] Nebula Award nominee, 1973[5]
Terran Empire
- The Imperial Stars (2000), collects:
- Ensign Flandry (1966)
- A Circus of Hells (1970)
- The Rebel Worlds (1969)
- The Day of Their Return (does not feature Flandry) (1973)
- Agent of the Terran Empire (1965), collects:
- "Tiger by the Tail" (1951)
- "The Warriors From Nowhere (1954)
- "Honorable Enemies" (1951)
- "Hunters of the Sky Cave" (also known as "A Handful of Stars" and We Claim These Stars) (1959)
- Flandry of Terra (1965), collects:
- "The Game of Glory" (1958)
- "A Message in Secret" (also known as Mayday Orbit) (1959)
- "The Plague of Masters" (also known as "A Plague of Masters" and Earthman, Go Home!) (1960)
- A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (1974)
- A Stone in Heaven (1979)
- The Game of Empire (features a daughter of Flandry) (1985)
The Long Night
- The Long Night (1983), collects:
- "The Star Plunderer" (1952)
- "Outpost of Empire" (1967)
- "A Tragedy of Errors" (1967)
- The Night Face (1978). Previously published as Let the Spacemen Beware! (1963). Expanded from the 1960 novelette "A Twelvemonth and a Day".[3]
- "The Sharing of Flesh" (1968) (Hugo, Nebula)
- "Starfog" (1967)
Omnibus reprints
(Omnibus reprints of the Nicholas van Rijn and Dominic Flandry series by Baen Books)
- The Van Rijn Method (2008), collects:
- "The Saturn Game" (1981)
- "Wings of Victory" (1972)
- "The Problem of Pain" (1973)
- "Margin of Profit" (1956)
- "How to Be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson" (1974)
- "The Three-Cornered Wheel" (1963)
- "A Sun Invisible" (1966)
- "The Season of Forgiveness" (1973)
- "The Man Who Counts" (1958)
- "Esau" (also known as "Birthright") (1970)
- "Hiding Place" (1961)
- David Falkayn: Star Trader (2009), collects
- "Territory" (1963)
- "Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose" (1966)
- "The Trouble Twisters" (also known as "Trader Team") (1965)
- "Day of Burning" (also known as "Supernova") (1967)
- "The Master Key" (1964)
- "Satan's World" (1969)
- "A Little Knowledge" (1971)
- "Lodestar" (1973)
- Rise of the Terran Empire (2009), collects:
- Mirkheim (1977)
- "Wingless" (also known as "Wingless on Avalon") (1973)
- "Rescue on Avalon" (1973)
- "The Star Plunderer" (1952)
- "Sargasso of Lost Starships" (1951)
- The People of the Wind (1973)
- Young Flandry (2010), collects:
- Ensign Flandry (1966)
- A Circus of Hells (1970)
- The Rebel Worlds (1969)
- Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire (2010), collects:
- "Outpost of Empire" (1967)
- The Day of Their Return (1975)
- "Tiger by the Tail" (1951)
- "Honorable Enemies" (1951)
- "The Game of Glory" (1957)
- "A Message in Secret" (1959)
- Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra (2010), collects:
- "The Warriors From Nowhere" (1954)
- "Hunters of the Sky Cave" (also known as "A Handful of Stars" and We Claim These Stars) (1959)
- "The Plague of Masters" (also known as "A Plague of Masters" and Earthman, Go Home!) (1960)
- "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" (1974)
- Flandry's Legacy (2011) collects:
- "A Stone in Heaven" (1979)
- "The Game of Empire" (features a daughter of Flandry) (1985)
- "A Tragedy of Errors" (1967)
- "The Night Face" (1978) (also known as "Let the Spacemen Beware!" (1963), a shorter 1960 version was known as "A Twelvemonth and a Day")
- "The Sharing of Flesh" (1968) (Hugo, Nebula)
- "Starfog" (1967)
Time Patrol
- "Time Patrol" (1955)
- "Brave to be a King" (1959)
- "Gibraltar Falls" (1975)
- "The Only Game in Town" (1960)
- "Delenda Est" (1955)
- "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" (1983)
- "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" (1983)
- "Star of the Sea" (1991)
- The Year of the Ransom (1988)
- The Shield of Time (1990)
- "Death and the Knight" (1995)
The shorter works in the series have been collected numerous times over the years, in:
- Guardians of Time (1960, contains 1, 2, 4 and 5; expanded 1981 edition adds 3)
- Time Patrolman (1983, contains 6 and 7)
- Annals of the Time Patrol (1983, contains 1–7)
- The Time Patrol (1991, contains 1–9)
- Time Patrol (2006, contains 1–9 and 11).
The anthology Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds (2014) () - in which various SF writers take up themes from Anderson's work - includes three new Time Patrol stories:
- "A Slip in Time" by S. M. Stirling
- "Christmas in Gondwanaland" by Robert Silverberg.
- "The Far End" by Larry Niven.
History of Rustum
- Orbit Unlimited (Pyramid Books, 1961)—novel, a fix-up of four Rustum stories published in magazines from 1959 to 1961.[6]
- New America (TOR Books, 1982)—collection including four Rustum published 1974–75, with unrelated material[6]
- My Own, My Native Land—Rustum story first published in the anthology Continuum 1 (1974) edited by Roger Elwood.
- Passing the Love of Women—Rustum story first published in Continuum 2 (1974)
- A Fair Exchange—Rustum story first published in Continuum 3 (December 1974)
- To Promote the General Welfare—Rustum story first published in Continuum 4 (September 1975)
- The Queen of Air and Darkness, first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1971; winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette (1971), Hugo Award for Best Novella (1972), and Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction (1972).
- Home (1966), first published in the anthology Orbit One. Also published as The Disinherited.
Maurai and Kith
- "Ghetto" (1954)
- "The Sky People" (1959)
- "Progress" (1961)
- "The Horn of Time the Hunter" (also known as "Homo Aquaticus", 1963)
- "Windmill" (1973)
- Orion Shall Rise (1983)
- Starfarers (1998)—Campbell Award nominee, 1999[7]
Related:
- There Will Be Time (1972)
Harvest of Stars
- Harvest of Stars (1993)
- The Stars Are Also Fire (1994) (Prometheus Award)
- Harvest the Fire (1995)
- The Fleet of Stars (1997)
Other novels
- Vault of the Ages (1952)
- Brain Wave (1954)
- Question and Answer (also known as Planet of No Return) (1954)
- No World of Their Own (1955, reissued as The Long Way Home 1958)
- The War of Two Worlds (1959)
- The Enemy Stars (also known as We Have Fed Our Sea) (1959)—Hugo Award nominee, 1959[8]
- The High Crusade (1960)—Hugo Award nominee, 1961[9]
- After Doomsday (1962)
- The Makeshift Rocket (1962) (expansion of "A Bicycle Built for Brew")
- Shield (1963)
- Three Worlds to Conquer (1964) (slightly expanded version of the serial which appeared in the January and March 1964 IF under the same title)
- The Corridors of Time (1965)
- The Star Fox (1965)—Nebula award nominee, 1965,[10] Prometheus Award winner
- World Without Stars (1967)
- Tau Zero (1970) (expansion of "To Outlive Eternity")—Hugo Award nominee, 1971[11]
- The Byworlder (1971)—Nebula Award nominee, 1971[11]
- The Dancer from Atlantis (1971)
- There Will Be Time (1972)—Hugo Award nominee, 1973[5]
- NOTE: The future history of this novel includes the Maurai Federation mentioned above.
- Fire Time (1974)—Hugo Award nominee, 1975[12]
- Inheritors of Earth (1974) with Gordon Eklund
- The Winter of the World (1975)
- The Avatar (1978)
- The Boat of a Million Years (1989)—Hugo Award nominee, 1990;[7] Nebula Award nominee, 1989[13]
- Inconstant Star (1991) (Fixup set in Larry Niven's Man-Kzin Wars universe.)
- Genesis (2000)—John W. Campbell Memorial Award, 2001[14]
- For Love and Glory (2003)
Fantasy
King of Ys
- Roma Mater (1986) with Karen Anderson
- Gallicenae (1987) with Karen Anderson
- Dahut (1987) with Karen Anderson
- The Dog and the Wolf (1988) with Karen Anderson
Operation Otherworld
- Operation Chaos (1971)
- Operation Luna (1999)
- Operation Otherworld (1999), omnibus containing Operation Chaos and Operation Luna
Other novels
- The Broken Sword (1954, revised in 1971)
- Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961)
- The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck (1966)
- Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1973)—British Fantasy Award, 1974[4]
- A Midsummer Tempest (1974)—Nebula and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 1975[12]
- The Merman's Children (1979)—Locus Fantasy Award nominee, 1980[15]
- The Demon of Scattery (1979) with Mildred Downey Broxon, illustrated by Michael Whelan, and Alicia Austin
- Conan the Rebel (1980)
- The Devil's Game (1980)
- War of the Gods (1997)
- Mother of Kings (2001)
Historical
- The Golden Slave (1960)
- Rogue Sword (1960)
The Last Viking
Poul and Karen Anderson collaborated on the three-part paperback original[16] "biography" of King Harald Hardråde.
- The Golden Horn (1980) with Karen Anderson
- The Road of the Sea Horse (1980) with Karen Anderson
- The Sign of the Raven (1980) with Karen Anderson
Mysteries
- Perish by the Sword (1959)
- Murder in Black Letter (1960)
- Murder Bound (1962)
Collections
- Strangers from Earth (1961)
- Un-Man and Other Novellas (1962)
- Time and Stars (1964)
- The Horn of Time (1968)
- Beyond the Beyond (1969, contains: Memory [originally A World Called Maanerek], 1957; Brake, 1957; Day of the Burning [originally Supernova], 1967; The Sensitive Man, 1954; The Moonrakers, 1966; Starfog, 1967)
- Seven Conquests (1969) (also known as Conquests)
- Tales of the Flying Mountains (1970)
- The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories (1973)
- The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson (also known as The Book of Poul Anderson) (1974) — Edited by Roger Elwood
- Homeward and Beyond (1975)
- The Best of Poul Anderson (1976)
- Homebrew (1976)
- The Night Face & Other Stories (1979)
- Winners (1981) (a collection of Anderson's Hugo-winners)
- Fantasy (1981)
- Explorations (1981)
- The Dark Between the Stars (1981)
- The Gods Laughed (1982)
- The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness (1982)
- Conflict (1983) (including, among other stories, the 1966 "High Treason")
- The Unicorn Trade (1984) with Karen Anderson
- Past Times (1984)
- Dialogue With Darkness (1985)
- Space Folk (1989)
- Alight in the Void (1991)
- Kinship with the Stars (1991)
- The Armies of Elfland (1991)
- All One Universe (1996)
- Going for Infinity (2002)
- To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories (2007)
- Call Me Joe (2009)
- The Queen of Air and Darkness (2009)
- The Saturn Game (2010)
- Admiralty (2011)
- Door to Anywhere (2013)
- Swordsmen from the Stars (2020)
Anthologies
- Nebula Award Stories Four (1969)
- The Day the Sun Stood Still (1972) with Gordon R. Dickson and Robert Silverberg
- A World Named Cleopatra (1977)
Nonfiction
- Is There Life on Other Worlds? (1963)
- The Infinite Voyage (1969)
Selected short stories
- "Brake"
- "Call Me Joe"
- "Delenda Est"
- "The Entity"
- "Eutopia"
- "Goat Song"
- "High Treason"
- "Lodestar"
- "The Longest Voyage"
- "The Man Who Came Early"
- "Marius"
- "Memory"
- "Night Piece"
- "No Truce with Kings"
- "The Pirate"
- "The Queen of Air and Darkness"
- "The Saturn Game"
- "The Sensitive Man"
- "The Sharing of Flesh"
- "Un-Man"
- "Flight to Forever"
References
- "Inside Earth"
- "'Twilight World' Science Fiction". Lewiston Evening Journal. September 9, 1961. p. 8A. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
- Poul Anderson; The Night Face (formerly Let the Spacemen Beware!), Second ACE Edition, 1978, Introduction.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1974 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1973 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "History of Rustum – Series Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2009-08-24.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1990 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1959 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1961 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1965 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1971 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1975 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1989 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2001 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 1980 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-03-28.
- "Poul Anderson - Summary Bibliography". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved September 29, 2014.
External links
- "Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Experience: Poul Anderson (Stories A-L)". Scifi.darkroastedblend.com. June 2006.
- "Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Experience: Poul Anderson (Stories M-S)". Scifi.darkroastedblend.com. September 2006.
- "Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Experience: Poul Anderson (Stories T-Z)". Scifi.darkroastedblend.com. September 2006.