Poul Anderson bibliography

Novels and related short stories

Science fiction

Hoka

[The Psychotechnic League]

• * "Marius"
• * "Brake"Cold Victory
• ''Starship''

Tomorrow's Children

• "Tomorrow's Children" with F. N. Waldrop
• "Chain of Logic"
• "Children of Fortune"
• "Epilogue"
• ''Twilight World''

Technic History

Early period

• ''The Saturn Game''

  Polesotechnic League

  War of the Wing-Men ; later issued with the author's preferred text and title as The Man Who Counts. Stranded on an alien planet, facing starvation, Van Rijn's only hope of survival is to end an eternal war between furry "Wingmen". Trader to the Stars , collects:
• * "Hiding Place"
• * "Territory"
• * "The Master Key" The Trouble Twisters , collects:
• * "The Three-Cornered Wheel"
• * "A Sun Invisible"
• * "The Trouble Twisters" Satan's World The Earth Book of Stormgate . It collects:
• * "Wings of Victory"
• * "The Problem of Pain"
• * "How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson"
• * "Margin of Profit"
• * "Esau"
• * "The Season of Forgiveness"
• * The Man Who Counts
• * "A Little Knowledge"
• * "Day of Burning"
• * "Lodestar"
• * "Wingless"
• * "Rescue on Avalon" Mirkheim The People of the Wind —Hugo and Locus SF Awards nominee, 1974; Nebula Award nominee, 1973

  Terran Empire

  The Imperial Stars, collects:
• * Ensign Flandry
• * A Circus of Hells
• * The Rebel Worlds The Day of Their Return Agent of the Terran Empire, collects:
• * "Tiger by the Tail"
• * "The Warriors From Nowhere"
• * "Honorable Enemies"
• * "Hunters of the Sky Cave" Flandry of Terra, collects:
• * "The Game of Glory"
• * "A Message in Secret"
• * "The Plague of Masters" A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows A Stone in Heaven
• ''The Game of Empire''

  The Long Night

  The Long Night, collects:
• * "The Star Plunderer"
• * "Outpost of Empire"
• * "A Tragedy of Errors"
• * "The Sharing of Flesh"
• * "Starfog" The Night Face. Previously published as Let the Spacemen Beware!. Expanded from the 1960 novelette "A Twelvemonth and a Day".

  Omnibus reprints

  The Van Rijn Method, collects:
• * "The Saturn Game"
• * "Wings of Victory"
• * "The Problem of Pain"
• * "Margin of Profit"
• * "How to Be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson"
• * "The Three-Cornered Wheel"
• * "A Sun Invisible"
• * "The Season of Forgiveness"
• * "The Man Who Counts"
• * "Esau"
• * "Hiding Place" David Falkayn: Star Trader, collects
• * "Territory"
• * "Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose"
• * "The Trouble Twisters"
• * "Day of Burning"
• * "The Master Key"
• * "Satan's World"
• * "A Little Knowledge"
• * "Lodestar" Rise of the Terran Empire, collects:
• * Mirkheim
• * "Wingless"
• * "Rescue on Avalon"
• * "The Star Plunderer"
• * "Sargasso of Lost Starships"
• * The People of the Wind Young Flandry, collects:
• * Ensign Flandry
• * A Circus of Hells
• * The Rebel Worlds Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire, collects:
• * "Outpost of Empire"
• * The Day of Their Return
• * "Tiger by the Tail"
• * "Honorable Enemies"
• * "The Game of Glory"
• * "A Message in Secret" Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra, collects:
• * "The Warriors From Nowhere"
• * "Hunters of the Sky Cave"
• * "The Plague of Masters"
• * "A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" Flandry's Legacy collects:
• * "A Stone in Heaven"
• * "The Game of Empire"
• * "A Tragedy of Errors"
• * "The Night Face"
• * "The Sharing of Flesh"
• * "Starfog"

Time Patrol

1. "Time Patrol"
2. "Brave to be a King"
3. "Gibraltar Falls"
4. "The Only Game in Town"
5. "Delenda Est"
6. "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"
7. "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth"
8. "Star of the Sea"
9. The Year of the Ransom
10. The Shield of Time
11. "Death and the Knight"

• "A Slip in Time" by S. M. Stirling
• "Christmas in Gondwanaland" by Robert Silverberg.
• "The Far End" by Larry Niven.

History of Rustum

• * My Own, My Native Land—Rustum story first published in the anthology Continuum 1 edited by Roger Elwood.
• * Passing the Love of Women—Rustum story first published in Continuum 2
• * A Fair Exchange—Rustum story first published in Continuum 3
• * To Promote the General Welfare—Rustum story first published in Continuum 4
• * The [Queen of Air and Darkness (novella)|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, Hugo Award for Best Novella, and Locus Poll Award, Best Short Fiction.
• * Home, first published in the anthology Orbit One. Also published as The Disinherited.

Maurai and Kith

• ''There Will Be Time''

Harvest of Stars

• ''The Fleet of Stars''

Other novels

• ''For Love and Glory''

Fantasy

King of Ys

Operation Otherworld

Other novels

• ''Mother of Kings''

Historical

• The Golden Slave
• ''Rogue Sword''

The Last Viking

• The Golden Horn
• The Road of the Sea Horse
• ''The Sign of the Raven''

Mysteries

• Perish by the Sword
• Murder in Black Letter
• ''Murder Bound''

Collections

• Strangers from Earth
• Un-Man and Other Novellas
• Time and Stars
• The Horn of Time
• Beyond the Beyond
• Seven Conquests
• Tales of the Flying Mountains
• The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories
• The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson — Edited by Roger Elwood
• Homeward and Beyond
• The Best of Poul Anderson
• Homebrew
• The Night Face & Other Stories
• Winners
• Fantasy
• Explorations
• The [Dark Between the Stars (short story collection)|The Dark Between the Stars]
• The Gods Laughed
• The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness
• Conflict
• The Unicorn Trade with Karen Anderson
• Past Times
• Dialogue With Darkness
• Space Folk
• Alight in the Void
• Kinship with the Stars
• The Armies of Elfland
• All One Universe
• Going for Infinity
• To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories
• Call Me Joe
• The Queen of Air and Darkness
• The Saturn Game
• Admiralty
• Door to Anywhere
• ''Swordsmen from the Stars''

Anthologies

• Nebula Award Stories Four
• The Day the Sun Stood Still with Gordon R. Dickson and Robert Silverberg
• ''A World Named Cleopatra''

Nonfiction

• Is There Life on Other Worlds?
• ''The Infinite Voyage''

Selected short stories

• "Brake"
• "Call Me Joe"
• "Delenda Est"
• "The Entity"
• "Eutopia"
• "Goat Song"—Hugo Award for Best Novelette, 1973
• "The Light"
• "The Longest Voyage"—Hugo Award for Best Short Story, 1961
• "The Man Who Came Early"
• "Marius"
• "Memory"
• "Night Piece"
• "No Truce with Kings"—Hugo Award winner, Best Short Story, 1964
• "The Pirate"
• "The Queen of Air and Darkness"—Hugo Award for Best Novella, 1972
• "The Saturn Game"—Hugo Award winner, Best Novella 1982
• "The Sensitive Man"
• "The Sharing of Flesh"—Hugo Award winner, Best Novelette, 1969
• "Un-Man"