Books by Poul Anderson

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    The Polesotechnic Empire Series:
  • Let the Spacemen Beware! [1963] [aka "The Night Face"]
  • The People of the Wind [1973]
  • The Day of Their Return [1973]
    Synopsis:
    Aeneas is the powder keg of the universe, a frontier planet where rebellion is a way of life--and death. Smarting under the thumb of the Terran Empire after an almost successful war against Imperial rule, the Aeneans are swept up in a fanatical religious movement that promises the return of the Elder Race.
    The Trader Van Rjin Stories:
  • War of the Wing Men [1958] [aka "The Man Who Counts"]
  • Trader to the Stars [1964]
  • The Trouble Twisters [1966]
  • Satan's World [1969]
  • Mirkheim [1977]
  • The Earth Book of Stormgate [1978]
    The Dominic Flandry Stories:
  • We Claim these Stars [1959] [aka "A Handful of Stars"]
  • Earthman, Go Home! [1960] [aka "A Plague of Masters"]
  • Mayday Orbit [1961] [aka "A Message in Secret"]
  • Agent of the Terran Empire [1965]
  • Ensign Flandry [1966]
  • Flandry of Terra [1966]
    Synopsis:
    It is the twilight of the Terran Empire. The warriors who made it great are long gone. Aliens now prowl the outer precincts, while Sector Governors conspire for the Throne of Man. In this scene of terminal disarray, one man stands like a giant: Dominic Flandry, roguish agent of the Terran Empire.
  • The Rebel Worlds [1969] [aka "Commander Flandry"]
  • A Circus of Hells [1970]
  • A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows [1975]
    Synopsis:
    Dominic Flandry, troubleshooter for the decaying Terran Empire, returns to the spaceways and becomes tangled up in the well-laid plans of his lifelong enemy, Aycharaych.
  • A Stone in Heaven [1979]
  • The Game of Empire [1985]
    The Holger Danske Stories:
  • Three Hearts and Three Lions [1961]
    Synopsis:
    A 20th-century fighter is snatched into a world of sword-wielding knights and spell-casting sorcerers. When a bullet creases Holger Carlsen's skull and hurls him into a magical realm of dragons and witches, he soon finds that he has a ready-made set of enemies in this new land.
  • A Midsummer Tempest [1974]
    The Psychotechnic History Stories:
  • Star Ways [1956] [aka "The Peregrine"]
  • The Snows of Ganymede [1958]
  • Virgin Planet [1959]
  • Un-Man and Other Novellas [1962]
  • The Psychotechnic League [1981]
    The Interplanetary Exploration Tales:
  • The War of Two Worlds [1959]
  • Planet of No Return [1956] [aka "Question and Answer"]
  • Orbit Unlimited [1961]
  • Three Worlds to Conquer [1964]
  • The Star Fox [1965]
  • World Without Stars [1966]
  • Tau Zero [1970]
  • The Worlds of Poul Anderson [1974]
  • Two Worlds [1978]
    Annals of the Time Patrol:
  • Guardians of Time [1960]
  • The Time Patrolman [1983]
  • The Year of the Ransom [1988]
  • The Time Patrol [1991]
    Synopsis:
    An entirely new novel of the Time Patrol--the far-future agency charged with responsibility for the stable continuity of human history--plus all the previous tales in the series.     [REVIEWS]
    The Harvest of Stars Series:
  • The Boat of a Million Years [1989]
    [SYNOPSIS]
  • Harvest of Stars [1994]
    Synopsis:
    Space pilot Kyra Davis, aided by an electronic ghost, risks her life in a desperate chess game to try to save a rebel corporation called Fireball from the repressive dictatorship that rules Earth.    [REVIEWS]
  • The Stars Are Also Fire [1994]
    Synopsis:
    In the early days of the next century, Dagney Beynac, descendant of the legendary Anson Guthrie, becomes a heroine of a new Lunarian civilization that struggles to break free of the influence of Earth. Centuries later, fragments of humanity search for some way to survive in a system that no longer seems to hold a place for them. The only solution lies in Dagney's distant past.
  • Harvest the Fire [1995]
    Synopsis:
    The explosive new novel that expands the future universe developed in Harvest of Stars and The Stars Are Also Fire to the point where conflicts of human and machine intelligence threaten to disrupt humanity's utopia.     [REVIEWS]
  • The Fleet of Stars [1997]
    Synopsis:
    Poul Anderson brings back the wildly colorful Anson Guthrie, his iconoclastic hero from "Harvest of Stars". The staid, somber people of Earth are not only dependent on technology, they are all but ruled by machine intelligence. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress humankind's last vestiges of freedom, Guthrie begins a dangerous journey across the realm of the comets, the asteroids, and the stars themselves--willing to risk his life to preserve humanity's ability to roam the universe.     [REVIEWS]
    Other:
  • Vault of the Ages [1952]
  • Brain Wave [1954]
  • The Broken Sword [1954]
  • No World of Their Own [1955] [aka "The Long Way Home"]
  • The Enemy Stars [1959]
  • The Golden Slave [1959]
  • Rogue Sword [1960]
  • The High Crusade [1960]
  • Twilight World [1961]
  • Strangers from Earth [1961]
  • The Makeshift Rocket [1962]
  • After Doomsday [1962]
  • Shield [1963]
  • Time and the Stars [1964]
  • The Corridors of Time [1965]
  • The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin [1966]
  • The Horn of Time [1968]
  • Beyond the Beyond [1969]
  • Seven Conquests [1969]
  • Tales of the Flying Mountains [1970]
  • The Byworlder [1971]
  • Operation Chaos [1971]
    Synopsis:
    In a war waged against Black Magic, the fact that Steve is a werewolf and his wife is a highly-skilled witch is not unusual. But their adventures prove very unusual, even for their world, when they are given the task of neutralizing an enemy's ultimate weapon--the world's most powerful demon.     [REVIEWS]
  • The Dancer from Atlantis [1971]
    Synopsis:
    During a cruise to Japan, Duncan Reid is suddenly transported into the distant past, where he and three other time travelers try to find the way home.
  • There Will Be Time [1972]
  • Hrolf Kraki's Saga [1973]
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness [1973]
  • Fire Time [1974]
  • The Book of Poul Anderson [1974] [aka "The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson"]
  • Homeward and Beyond [1975]
  • The Winter of the World [1975]
    Synopsis:
    Classic SF from the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of The Boat of a Million Years. Thousands of years from now, after a new Ice Age has reduced our world to frozen ruins, new civilizations and cultures arise from the ice. But as the people uncover the lost technology of the past, they also rediscover war, conquest, diplomacy . . . and betrayal.
  • Homebrew [1976]
  • The Best of Poul Anderson [1976]
  • The Night Face and Other Stories [1978]
  • The Avatar [1978]
  • The Merman's Children [1979]
  • Conan the Rebel [1980]
  • The Devil's Game [1980]
    Synopsis:
    Seven people--including a porno star, a mercenary soldier, and a woman who cannot afford the treatment to save her child--come to Havener's Island to play a deadly game with a million tax-free dollars as the prize. But they are unaware their host is following the instructions of an inhuman creature--and even Havener doesn't know the real purpose of his demonic master's game.
  • The Dark Between the Stars [1981]
  • Explorations [1981]
  • Winners [1981]
  • Fantasy [1981]
  • Cold Victory [1982]
  • The Gods Laughed [1982]
  • Maurai and Kith [1982]
  • New America [1982]
  • Starship [1982]
  • Agent of Vega [1983]
  • Conflict [1983]
    Synopsis:
    Ten stories deal with invasions, treason, colonies on other worlds, a brainwashing device, spies, wars in space, and a world in which assassination has replaced war.
  • Past Times [1984]
  • Orion Shall Rise [1984]
    Synopsis:
    After nuclear weapons ravaged the Earth, only Skyholm, a huge solar-powered station floating above Europe, remains in possession of high technology. But as Skyholm is seized by a religious faction, a young noble escapes to the ground below and joins a group who conspire to use the power of the atom, outlawed for centuries, to regain the lost heritage of space flight. [REVIEWS]
  • Dialogue With Darkness [1985]
  • Kinship With The Stars [1993]
    Synopsis:
    A collection of classic stories by the best-selling author of The Queen of Air includes tales of a manhunt for the last wild alien, a planetary economy based on gambling, a robot in love with literature, and others. Originally in paperback.
    Buy this Book War of the Gods[1997]
    Synopsis:
    The epic saga of the legendary Viking king and warrior, Hadding, is a masterpiece of historical fantasy. Acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author Poul Anderson has extensively researched the legend to piece together as much authentic material as possible. In re-creating the tale of the Danish king some compare to Arthur, Anderson also gives us a taste of life as it was really lived in the Viking era.     [REVIEWS]
    With Karen Anderson:
  • The Unicorn Trade [1984]
  • Roma Mater [1986]
  • Gallicenae [1987]
  • Dahut [1987]
  • The Dog and the Wolf [1988]
  • The King of Ys [1996]
    Synopsis:
    YS: Magical city shrouded in lengend, ruled by her Nine priestesses, her gods, and her King. When Gratillonius, a Roman prefect in the service of the emperor, journeys to YS, he is tricked by the Nine into defeating the King in armed combat - not realizing that this deed will make his not only the new King - but the last King - doomed betrayal by Rome, his daughter, and his gods.
    With Mildred Broxon:
  • The Demon of Scattery [1979]
    With Gordon R. Dickson:
  • Earthman's Burden [1957]
  • Star Prince Charlie [1975]
  • Hoka [1983]
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