Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (November 25, 1926 - July 31, 2001) was a prolific science fiction author of the Golden Age; some of his short stories were first published using the pseudonyms "A. A. Craig", "Michael Karageorge", and "Winston P. Sanders".

He received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota and later became President of the association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

Biographical timeline

• 25 November 1926 - born in Bristol, Pennsylvania
• 1948 - received Bachelor of Science from University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 1953 - married Karen Kruse
• 31 July 2001 - died

Awards

• Gandalf Grand Master (1978)
• Hugo Award (seven times)
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2000)
• Nebula Award (three times)
• Prometheus Award (four times, including Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001)
• SFWA Grand Master (1997)

Partial Bibliography (book-length works only)

Series

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

Tomorrow's Children

• Tomorrow's Children (1947) with F. N. Waldrop
• Chain of Logic (1947)

Psychotechnic League

• Star Ways (1956)
• The Snows of Ganymede (1958)
• Virgin Planet (1959)
• The Psychotechnic League (1981)
• Cold Victory (1982)
• Starship (1982)

Hoka

• Earthman's Burden (1957) with Gordon R. Dickson
• Star Prince Charlie (1975) with Gordon R. Dickson
• Hoka! (1983) with Gordon R. Dickson

Technic History

featuring Nicholas Van Rijn (by internal chronology):

• War of the Wing-Men (also known as The Man Who Counts) (1958)
• Trader to the Stars (1964) (Prometheus Award), collects:
  • "Hiding Place" (1961)
  • "Territory" (1961)
  • "The Master Key" (1971)
• 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 (1978), 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 (also known as 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)

featuring Dominic Flandry (by internal chronology):

• 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 (1985)
• The Long Night (does not feature Flandry) (1983), collects:
  • "The Star Plunderer" (1952)
  • "Outpost of Empire" (1967)
  • "A Tragedy of Errors" (1967)
  • "The Sharing of Flesh" (1968) (Hugo, Nebula)
  • "Starfog" (1967)
• Let the Spaceman Beware (also known as The Night Face, does not feature Flandry) (1963)

Time Patrol

• Guardians of Time (1960)
• Time Patrolman (1983)
• The Year of the Ransom (1988)
• The Shield of Time (1990)
• The Time Patrol (1991)

History of Rustum

• Orbit Unlimited (1961)
• New America (1982)

Three Hearts

• Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961)
• A Midsummer Tempest (1974)

Operation Otherworld

• Operation Chaos (1971)
• Operation Luna (1999)

The Last Viking

• 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

Maurai

• Maurai and Kith (1982)
• Orion Shall Rise (1983)

Harvest of Stars

• Harvest of Stars (1993)
• The Stars Are Also Fire (1994) (Prometheus Award)
• Harvest the Fire (1995)
• The Fleet of Stars (1997)

Novels

• Vault of the Ages (1952)
• Brain Wave (1954)
• The Broken Sword (1954)
• Planet of No Return (also known as Question and Answer) (1954)
• No World of Their Own (1955)
• Perish by the Sword (1959)
• War of Two Worlds (1959)
• The Enemy Stars (also known as "'We have fed our sea—'") (1959)
• The High Crusade (1960)
• Murder in Black Letter (1960)
• Twilight World (1961)
• After Doomsday (1962)
• The Makeshift Rocket (1962) (expansion of "A Bicycle Built for Brew")
• Murder Bound (1962)
• Shield (1963)
• Three Worlds to Conquer (1964)
• The Corridors of Time (1965)
• The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck (1966)
• World Without Stars (1966)
• Tau Zero (1970) (expansion of "To Outlive Eternity")
• The Byworlder (1971)
• The Dancer from Atlantis (1971)
• Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1973)
• There Will Be Time (1973)
• Fire Time (1974)
• Inheritors of Earth (1974) with Gordon Eklund
• The Winter of the World (1975)
• The Avatar (1978)
• The Demon of Scattery (1979) with Mildred Downey Broxon
• Conan the Rebel (1980)
• The Devil's Game (1980)
• The Boat of a Million Years (1989)
• The Saturn Game (1989)
• The Longest Voyage (1991)
• War of the Gods (1997)
• Starfarers (1998)
• Genesis (2000) (John W. Campbell Memorial Award)
• Mother of Kings (2001)
• For Love and Glory(2003)

Fixups

• The Star Fox (1965) (Prometheus Award)
• Operation Chaos (1971)
• The Merman's Children (1979)

Collections

• Orbit Unlimited (1961)
• Strangers from Earth (1961)
• Twilight World (1961)
• Un-Man and Other Novellas (1962)
• Time and Stars (1964)
• 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 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)
• The Dark Between the Stars (1981)
• Explorations (1981)
• Fantasy (1981)
• The Guardians of Time (1981)
• Winners (1981) (a collection of Anderson's Hugo-winners)
• Cold Victory (1982)
• The Gods Laughed (1982)
• Maurai & Kith (1982)
• New America (1982)
• Starship (1982)
• The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness (1982)
• Conflict (1983)
• The Long Night (1983)
• Past Times (1984)
• The Unicorn Trade (1984) with Karen Anderson
• Dialogue With Darkness (1985)
• Space Folk (1989)
• The Shield of Time (1990)
• Alight in the Void (1991)
• The Armies of Elfland (1991)
• Inconstant Star (1991) - Stories set in Larry Niven's Man-Kzin universe.
• Kinship with the Stars (1991)
• All One Universe (1996)
• Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! (1998) with Gordon R. Dickson
• Going for Infinity

Omnibus

• The Worlds of Poul Anderson (1974)
• Operation Otherworld (1999)

Anthologies

• 4 Nebula Award Stories 4 (1969)
• The Day the Sun Stood Still (1972) with Gordon R. Dickson and Robert Silverberg
• A World Named Cleopatra (1977)

Non-Genre

• The Golden Slave (1960) - Historical novel
• Rogue Sword (1960) - Historical novel

Serials

• No Truce With Kings (1963)

See Also

• science fiction: authors - novels - short stories - television shows
• Ander-Saxon