The Demon of Scattery (With: Mildred Downey Broxon)
1979
The Devil’s Game
1980
Conan the Rebel
1980
The Boat of a Million Years
1989
War of the Gods
1997
Starfarers
1998
Genesis
2000
Mother of Kings
2001
For Love and Glory
2003
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Strangers from Earth
1961
Un-Man and Other Novellas
1962
Time and Stars
1964
The Horn of Time
1968
Seven Conquests / Conquests
1969
Beyond the Beyond
1969
Tales of the Flying Mountains
1970
The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories
1973
The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson / The Book of Poul Anderson
1974
Homeward and Beyond
1975
The Best of Poul Anderson
1976
The Night Face and Other Stories
1978
Winners
1981
Fantasy
1981
Explorations
1981
The Dark Between the Stars
1981
The Gods Laughed
1982
Conflict
1983
The Unicorn Trade (With: Karen Anderson)
1984
Past Times
1984
Dialogue with Darkness
1985
Space Folk
1989
Inconstant Star
1991
Alight in the Void
1991
Kinship with the Stars
1991
The Armies of Elfland
1992
All One Universe
1996
Going for Infinity
2002
Publication Order of Children’s Books
The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin
1966
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Is There Life on Other Worlds?
1963
Thermonuclear Warfare
1963
The Infinite Voyage: Man’s Future in Space
1969
About Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was an American science fiction and fantasy author who published from the 1940s until his death, and who also wrote historical novels and mysteries. He won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards, and is best known for the Technic History stories, the Time Patrol series and novels such as “Tau Zero”, “The Broken Sword” and “The High Crusade”.
Anderson was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, on 25 November 1926 to Danish parents. The family moved to Texas soon afterwards, and after his father died his mother took the children to Denmark. They returned to the United States after the outbreak of the Second World War and settled on a farm in Minnesota. He took a degree in physics at the University of Minnesota in 1948 and went straight into freelance writing, having already sold “Tomorrow’s Children”, written with F. N. Waldrop, to Astounding Science Fiction in 1947. In 1953 he married Karen Kruse and moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where they made their home in Orinda, California.
His first novel was “Vault of the Ages” (1952), written for young readers. Two of his most admired books followed in 1954: “Brain Wave” and “The Broken Sword”, a fantasy set in the Viking Age that draws on Norse mythology. “The High Crusade” (1960) imagines an alien scout ship landing in medieval England, while “Tau Zero” (1970), about a starship that cannot stop accelerating, is a standard example of hard science fiction and was nominated for the Hugo Award.
Much of his science fiction belongs to the Technic History, a single future history. Its first half follows the trader Nicholas van Rijn and the Polesotechnic League; its second half follows Dominic Flandry, an intelligence agent in the waning days of the Terran Empire. The Time Patrol stories began in 1955 and were first collected in “Guardians of Time” (1960). He wrote the Hoka stories with Gordon R. Dickson and the four King of Ys novels (1986 to 1988) with his wife Karen.
Anderson was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism in 1966, became president of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972 and was later named one of its Grand Masters. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2000. His last large project was the four-volume Harvest of Stars sequence (1993 to 1997), and “Genesis” (2000) won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He died in Orinda on 31 July 2001; “For Love and Glory” appeared in 2003.
