Poul Anderson

The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object at all. Often, what we call a “change of heart” comes about sheerly from a change in the many associations which make up our present viewpoint. Now, suppose that these associations could be altered artificially, at the option of the person who was in charge of the process....

This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Trygve Yamamura is a Hawaii born half-Norwegian, half-Japanese private detective who works as a college professor at Berkeley, California. An expert in the field of Japanese Samurai swords and a skilled marshal artist, he presents a great threat to the criminals in San Francisco Bay Area. When a teaching assistant in the Berkeley history department is found murdered,...

Discover the golden age of science fiction with some of the best stories of intergalactic battles, space adventures and alien contact in this Poul Anderson collection of selected SF stories: Captive of the Centaurianess Lord of a Thousand Sun Out of the Iron Womb Sargasso of Lost Starships Star Ship Swordsman of Lost Terra The Virgin of Valkarion Tiger by the Tail Witch of the Demon Seas

He got the lock open as they retreated for another charge. For an instant his teeth flashed under the moon, the cold grin of Daryesh the warrior who had ruled a thousand suns in his day and led the fleets of Vwyrdda.

We have said that there are many and strange shadows, memories surviving from dim pasts, in this FANTASTIC UNIVERSE of ours. Poul Anderson turns to a legend from the Northern countries, countries where even today the pagan past seems only like yesterday, and tells the story of Cappen Varra, who came to Norren a long, long time ago. “Let little Cappen go,” they shouted. “Maybe he can sing the trolls to sleep—”

At the advent of the modern space age an enterprising company has set up a mining endeavor on an out-world. After initial success, Earth’s government attempts to shut down and take over the operation.

Bold and ruthless, he was famed throughout the System as a big-game hunter. From the firedrakes of Mercury to the ice-crawlers of Pluto, he’d slain them all. But his trophy-room lacked one item; and now Riordan swore he’d bag the forbidden game that roamed the red deserts . . . a Martian!

A hayseed Martian among big-planet slickers . . . of course he would get into trouble. But that was nothing compared to the trouble he would be in if he did not get into trouble!

Set in a dystopian future where America has become a police state, «Security» shows us just how important our freedoms and rights are. A mesmerizing cautionary tale from one of the best writers science fiction ever produced.

Poul Anderson (1926 – 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. This volume collects 8 classic stories:<P> WITCH OF THE DEMON SEAS (1951)<BR> DUEL...

A pre-Renaissance manuscript, an old treatise on witchcraft, and black magic feature in the murder of a quiet, young teacher at the University of California.<P> <P>"The writer, already well know to science fiction readers, gives us a startling detective in his Norwegian-Japanese Trygve Yamamura who, this time, finds the murderer of a young university who knew too much about a medieval Book of Witches and who was tortured before his death. Good suspense and excellent puzzle." – The...

Jutukoguga «Aja valvurid» (The Guardians of Time; 1981) saab alguse ulmekirjanduse suurmeistri Poul Andersoni (1926–2001) legendaarne Ajapatrulli-tsükkel. Ajapatrull on omalaadne ajapolitsei, mille ülesanne on kaitsa minevikku kurjategijate eest, kes soovivad ajalugu muuta. Ajapatrulli esimese kogumiku jutud viivad lugeja varakeskaegsesse Britanniasse, iidsesse Pärsiasse, miljonite aastate tagusesse minevikku, mil tekkis Vahemeri, 13. sajandi Ameerikasse, kuhu on väĺja jõudnud mongolid, ning...