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Table of Contents:

• Editor's Introduction (Rick Katze) 6
• Poul Anderson (Greg Bear) 7
• Call Me Joe 11
• Prayer in War 36
• Tomorrow's Children 37
• Kinnison's Band 57
• The Helping Hand 58
• Wildcat 77
• Clausius' Chaos 100
• Journey's End 101
• Heinlein's Stories 107
• Logic 108
• Time Patrol 129
• The First Love 156
• The Double-dyed Villains 157
• To a Tavern Wench 177
• The Immortal Game 178
• Upon the Occasion of Being Asked to Argue That Love and Marriage Are Incompatible 186
• Backwardness 187
• Haiku 195
• Genius 196
• There Will Be Other Times 222
• The Live Coward 223
• Ballade of an Artificial Satellite 240
• Time Lag 241
• The Man Who Came Early 266
• Autumn 283
• Turning Point 284
• Honesty 294
• The Alien Enemy 295
• Eventide 307
• Enough Rope 308
• The Sharing of Flesh 329
• Barbarous Allen 353
• Welcome 354
• Flight to Forever 360
• Barnacle Bull 399
• To Jack Williamson 411
• Time Heals 412
• MacCannon 425
• The Martian Crown Jewels 426
• Then Death Will Come 438
• Prophecy 439
• Sea Burial 444
• Einstein's Distress 444
• Kings Who Die 445
• Ochlan 466
• Starfog 467

Table of Contents:

• Editor's Introduction (Rick Katze)
• Poul Anderson by Mike Resnick
• The Queen of Air and Darkness
• Jennifer's Lament
• Industrial Revolution
• Cradle Song
• Operation Afreet
• On Imaginary Science
• Upon the Occasion of Being Asked at a Court of Love to Declare That About His Lady Which Pleases Him the Most
• The Longest Voyage
• Brave to Be a King
• Midsummer Song
• Christa McAuliffe
• Brake
• Jennifer's Song
• The Hardness of Hard Science Fiction
• The Burning Bridge
• Veleda Speaks
• Science Fiction and History
• A World Called Maanerek
• The Pirate
• To Build a World
• Say It with Flowers
• My Object All Sublime
• Innocent at Large
• Route Song of the Winged Folk
• The Corkscrew of Space
• A Little Knowledge
• Marque and Reprisal
• Uncleftish Beholding
• The Critique of Impure Reason
• Science and Creation
• Of the Sea
• Epilogue
• Tanka

This multi-volume series includes the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories. Volume 3 includes three of Anderson's Hugo and Nebula award-winning stories, "The Saturn Game", "No Truce with Kings", and "Hunter's Moon".

Table of Contents

• Editor's Introduction
• Introduction by Tom Easton
• The Saturn Game
• No Truce with Kings
• Operation Salamander
• Sam Hall
• Robin Hoods Barn
• The Only Game in Town
• Supernova
• Sunjammer
• Arsenal Port
• Hiding Place
• A Tragedy of Errors
• What'll You Give
• A Sun Invisible
• Musn't Touch
• Elementary Mistake
• Peek, I see You.
• Eve Times 4
• Hunter's Moon
• and Untitled Limericks and Songs

"Admiralty: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson" (volume 4) continues the series of presenting the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over a writing career of 50 years. It includes "Admiralty", a story in the foreseeable future when man has colonies on other planets and is in conflict with an alien empire, "Goat Song", the Hugo and Nebula award winning story about a man's determination to bring his lost love back to life, "Operation Changeling", a world where magic and demons co-exist, "Delenda Est", a story of the time patrol and the choices that must be made to keep our existence intact, "The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound", co-written with Gordon R. Dickson, where the aliens are living on their own planet, a portion of which is created as Victorian England with Scotland Yard and Sherlock Holmes, "Marius", which shows that the only thing we lean from history is history, and the delightful "Inside Straight", in which an understanding of poker defeats an invasion.

Table of Contents

• Introduction by David G. Hartwell
• Admiralty
• Among Thieves
• Delenda Est
• Eutopia
• Goat Song
• Gypsy
• Holmgang
• Home
• Horse Trader
• Inside Straight
• Kyrie
• Lodestar
• Marius
• Murphy's Hall
• Operation Changeling
• Quixote and the Windmill
• The Problem of Pain
• Sister Planet
• The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound
• The Barrier Moment
• The Bitter Bread
• The Pugilist
• The Star Beast

Door to Anywhere is the fifth of a multivolume compendium of Poul Anderson's best works from a writing career that spans over 50 years. This volume contains stories about Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly, Dominic Flandry, the Hokas, Nicholas van Rijn, and Stephen Matuchek and Virginia Graylock.

Table of Contents:

• Editor's Introduction - essay by Rick Karze
• An Appreciation of Poul Anderson - essay by Jerry Pournelle
• Door to Anywhere - (1966) - novelette
• Deathwomb - (1983) - novelette
• The Nest - (1953) - novelette
• Fairy Gold - (1984) - novelette
• The Master Key - (1964) - novelette
• Recruiting Nation - (1970) - shortstory
• Gibraltar Falls - (1975) - shortstory
• Operation Incubus - (1959) - shortstory
• The White King's War - (1969) - novelette
• In Hoka Signo Vinces - (1953) - novelette with Gordon R. Dickson
• The Life of Your Time - (1965) - novelette
• The Star Plunderer - (1952) - novelette
• Un-Man - (1953) - novella
• Wings of Victory - (1972) - novelette
• The Fatal Fulfillment - (1970) - novella
• For the Duration - (1957) - shortstory
• Sargasso of Lost Starships - (1952) - novella
• The Last of the Deliverers - (1958) - shortstory
• Birthright - (1970) - novelette
• Strangers - (1988) - novelette
• The Year of the Ransom - (1988) - novel

A Bicycle Built for Brew: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson (volume 6) continues the series of presenting the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over a writing career of 50 years. It includes 5 short novels and 3 novellas.

A Bicycle Built for Brew, the lead short novel mixes beer, air-tight drums, a talking parrot guaranteed to repeat phrases laced with 4-letter indignities, a romance between an English lass and a Scottish soldier, and the need to communicate the fact of the invasion to British authorities on a nearby asteroid in a very humorous tale.

The original magazine version of Three Hearts and Three Lions, long unavailable except for the original magazines published in 1953, in which Holger Carlsen, fighting the Nazis, is suddenly transported to a world where magic and a growing battle between good and evil is raging.

Silent Victory in which Mars has defeated Earth in a war but things are never that simple.

"Territory" features Nicholas van Rijn, A Plague of Masters features Dominic Flandry, "Three Cornered Wheel" features David Falkyn, "The Sensitive Man" and "The Snows of Ganymede".

Table of Contents:

• Editor's Introduction - essay by Rick Katze
• My Father, Poul Anderson - essay by Astrid Anderson Bear
• A Bicycle Built for Brew - (1958) - novella
• Three Hearts and Three Lions - (1961) - novel
• The Snows of Ganymede - (1955) - novella
• Territory - (1963) - novella
• The Sensitive Man - (1954) - novella
• Silent Victory - (1953) - novella
• The Three-Cornered Wheel - (1963) - novelette
• A Plague of Masters - novella

Question and Answer: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson (volume 7) continues the series of the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over his writing career of 50 years. It contains 6 short novels, 2 novellas, and 4 short stories.

"Question and Answer", the lead short novel tells the story of what may or may not be the first meeting between two different species, with a touch of politics and a mystery. The book's two-page frontispiece is an illustration of this story. "The Big Rain" is set on Venus while it is still being terraformed, and concludes the "Un-Man stories". Dominic Flandry is well represented in this volume, including the first time he meets Aycharaych of Chereion, his life-long nemesis. "The Troublemakers" examines life aboard a slower-than-light transport ship as it makes a voyage that will last over three generations. Finally, but not least, David Falkyn and his trader team open a planet for trade.

Table of Contents:

• 2 - Frontispiece (Question and Answer) - interior artwork by Vincent Di Fate
• 10 - Editor's Introduction (Question and Answer) - essay by Rick Katze
• 12 - Poul Anderson - essay by Vincent Di Fate
• 15 - Question and Answer - (1978) - novella (variant of Planet of No Return 1956)
• 80 - Tiger by the Tail - [Dominic Flandry] - (1951) - novelette
• 102 - The Big Rain - [Psychotechnic League] - (1954) - novella
• 152 - Warriors from Nowhere - [Dominic Flandry] - (1954) - short story (variant of The Ambassadors of Flesh)
• 166 - The Troublemakers - [Psychotechnic League] - (1953) - novella
• 203 - To Outlive Eternity - (1967) - novella
• 261 - A Message in Secret - [Dominic Flandry] - (1959) - novella
• 306 - In the Shadow - (1967) - novelette
• 323 - Trader Team - [David Falkayn] - (1965) - novella
• 392 - Honorable Enemies - [Dominic Flandry] - (1951) - novelette
• 410 - Outpost of Empire - [Dominic Flandry] - (1967) - novella
• 468 - Hunters of the Sky Cave - [Dominic Flandry] - (1965) - novel (variant of We Claim These Stars! 1959)