Poul Anderson Books in Order

Gratillonius has restored stability to Ys, but Rome wants a more compliant ruler and an Irish king seeks revenge. When the gods select Gratillonius's daughter Dahut as a royal wife, danger also emerges within his own household.

After Ys falls, Gratillonius leads the survivors in an attempt to rebuild their city. With King Niall still determined to destroy them and Europe entering the Dark Ages, shelter and survival depend on holding their fragile community together.

Future bandits raid the ransom demanded for the Inca emperor in 1533, unleashing a chain of temporal crimes. A conquistador steals a time machine and kidnaps a Time Patrol agent's niece, turning the pursuit into a rescue across centuries.

Stories portray people making difficult decisions about humanity’s future in space. Their willingness to take risks and contribute to a larger dream shapes the possibilities for exploration, asking whether human ambition can create a lasting future beyond Earth.

A handful of people who never age live through successive civilizations, hiding their unusual condition and searching for others like themselves. Their journey from ancient history into the future explores the loneliness and changing meaning of an indefinitely long life.

Robert Saxtorph and the crew of Rover take peaceful exploration jobs that repeatedly bring them into conflict with the Kzinti. Alien dangers and a mission to clear a woman's father's name draw them deeper into hostile space.

Time Patrol agent Manse Everard protects history from travelers who would change it, while scientist Wanda Tamberley finds her decisions carrying unexpected weight. Together they face threats to humanity's future and the painful cost of preserving the past.

This collection brings together Anderson's early science fiction adventures, including Earthman, Beware! and Flight to Forever. The stories range through speculative situations and journeys beyond familiar human experience, offering shorter explorations of the ideas that shaped his fiction.

A hunt for the last wild alien, an economy built around gambling and a literature-loving robot appear in this collection. Other stories broaden the encounters with unfamiliar societies and minds, linking adventure with questions about humanity’s place among the stars.

Gods, warriors and magical encounters populate this collection of Anderson’s fantasy stories. The Queen of Air and Darkness appears alongside adventures featuring Cappen Varra and other tales, where unexpected dangers test courage, judgment and the relationship between legend and reality.

Space pilot Kyra Davis must protect the electronically preserved mind of Fireball founder Anson Guthrie from an oppressive Earth regime. Their resistance faces a particularly dangerous opponent: another copy of Guthrie's personality, reprogrammed to serve their enemies.

Artificial intelligences increasingly control humanity's future while genetically altered Lunarians struggle to defend their freedom and resources. Generations of political conflict converge around a secret from the Moon's early colonization that could overturn the machine-dominated order.

Astronaut Christian Brannock uploads his mind to pursue the stars. Billions of years later, anomalies bring him back to Earth, where another uploaded human joins his investigation of the supermind controlling the planet and its simulations of human history.

Pilot and aspiring poet Jesse Nichol becomes entangled in a Lunarian conspiracy against Earth's ruling artificial intelligence. The rebels need antimatter to preserve their independence, while a downloaded investigator tracks their plans and puts Nichol's loyalties under pressure.

Science fiction stories share this collection with essays and commentary on Anderson’s work and fellow writers. Pieces about Rudyard Kipling and John Campbell accompany varied imagined worlds, while the author’s reflections connect the fiction with his own literary interests.

Anson Guthrie and fellow uploaded colonists have established a new existence beyond Earth. Back home, humanity depends on the controlling Teramind, prompting Guthrie to investigate a suspected conspiracy and undertake a dangerous journey through the realm of comets.

Raised among giants after violence threatens his royal family, Hadding becomes caught between mortal blood feuds and the rivalry of Odin and Njord. His struggle for Denmark's throne unfolds in a world where divine plans shape human warfare.

Evidence of distant starships prompts humanity to send the Envoy toward an advanced civilization. Its crew accepts a journey whose round trip will span 120,000 Earth years, risking a return to a home that may have become unrecognizable.

In a world powered by magic, werewolf engineer Steve Matuchek helps build a spacecraft for a lunar mission. Supernatural sabotage destroys the attempt, drawing Steve and his witch wife Ginny into an investigation and a new effort to reach the Moon.

Gunnhild learns sorcery and marries Eirik, bringing her ambition and magical power into the struggles of tenth-century Norse royalty. As enemies threaten her family, she fights to preserve its influence and secure a future for her sons.

Stories and novel excerpts accompany Anderson’s recollections of six decades writing science fiction and fantasy. Reflections on fellow writers, editors and his own experiences connect imagined adventures with a personal account of the literary world that shaped his career.

Human adventurer Lissa Windholm and alien scientist Karl uncover relics linked to mysterious Forerunners. Their discoveries intersect with a concealed astronomical threat, competing seekers of the artifacts, and a dictatorship determined to keep crucial knowledge to itself.

Stories follow humanity through nuclear devastation, encounters with robots, Venus’s terraforming and voyages endangered by relativistic time. After Doomsday accompanies shorter adventures, bringing together people struggling against planetary catastrophe, unfamiliar societies and threats that could destroy their remaining hopes.

Early science fiction stories and verse trace the range of Anderson’s shorter work. The collection brings together Call Me Joe, Time Patrol, The Sharing of Flesh and other tales, alongside poems and introductory reflections on the author.

Nineteen works combine science fiction, poetry and essays in this collection led by The Queen of Air and Darkness. Stories such as The Burning Bridge and Industrial Revolution accompany reflections on imagined science and the relationship between fiction and history.

A resourceful bard confronts danger, a society built around security exposes its contradictions, and a space voyage tests human resolve. These three stories explore how ingenuity and courage respond to threats that challenge ordinary assumptions.

Five stories follow a hunter pursuing forbidden Martian prey, a society obsessed with security, and a man resisting a conspiracy for global power. Across distant worlds, dangerous ambitions and technological failures test the ingenuity of their human participants.

Artificially changing the associations behind human feelings promises to transform love and loyalty. When an enterprising researcher uses the process to redirect romantic attachments, a man whose beloved has been manipulated must confront the power behind her apparent change of heart.

The Saturn Game, No Truce with Kings and Hunter’s Moon lead this collection of Anderson’s shorter science fiction. Other adventures bring together explorations, encounters and conflicts across his imagined worlds, presenting a varied selection of stories rather than a single continuing narrative.

Terran agent Dominic Flandry is abducted by the Scothani, whose leaders plan to invade his empire. Trapped among his enemies, he studies their ambitions and rivalries, looking for a way to turn their politics against the coming conquest.

Humanity’s conflicts with alien empires share this collection with time travelers, magical worlds and a man determined to recover his lost love. Stories including Admiralty, Goat Song and Delenda Est explore choices that can alter lives and entire histories.

Stories revisit time travelers Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly, agent Dominic Flandry, trader Nicholas van Rijn and the Hokas. Magical adventures with Stephen Matuchek and Virginia Graylock add another setting to this collection spanning Anderson’s science fiction and fantasy.

An invasion threatens an asteroid community in the humorous title story, where beer and a talking parrot complicate resistance. Other collected adventures include the original magazine version of Three Hearts and Three Lions, planetary wars and interstellar traders.

Questions about first contact lead a collection ranging from Venus’s terraforming to interstellar trading and multigenerational voyages. Dominic Flandry encounters his enduring enemy, while other short novels and stories explore the political and personal challenges of humanity’s expanding worlds.

Three adventures pit swordsmen against sorcery and the remnants of lost civilizations. A condemned pirate accepts a perilous voyage, a stranger threatens a dynasty, and a warrior seeks stolen weapons powerful enough to decide his world’s future.

A naive Martian finds himself among worldly operators whose schemes threaten to overwhelm him. This short science fiction adventure follows the collision of innocence and sharp dealing as an outsider tries to navigate an unfamiliar society.

Three science fiction novellas bring together Un-Man, Margin of Profit and The Live Coward. This collection gathers Anderson’s shorter narratives originally written for magazines, presenting separate adventures together rather than following one character through a continuous novel.