Poul Anderson Books In Order

Flandry of Terra

A collection of three Flandry tales: THE GAME OF GLORY: Captain Flandry follows a dying man’s clue to the watery provincial world of Nyanza, where a rebellion against the Empire may be brewing. A MESSAGE IN SECRET: Flandry ventures to the remote colonial world of Altai, whose human inhabitants haven’t been in contact with the Terran Empire for centuries, and discovers that they are cutting a Faustian deal with the Merseians. THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS: Flandry, of his own volition, decides to investigate the remote and isolated world of Unan Besar, to see exactly why it is they have had no contact with the Empire in over 300 years.

Ensign Flandry

The late Poul Anderson, who died in 2001, was one of the giants of science fiction and winner of 7 Hugo Awards, the field’s highest honor. Ensign Flandry is a classic character in the history of science fiction. This definitive omnibus of three Flandry adventures will delight Anderson’s legion of fans and continue the ibooks program of important works of science fiction as begun with its ZELAZNY, BESTER, and SILVERBERG reissues. After the first flowering of the Terran Empire, which has grown increasingly decadent and corrupt, other civilizations in the galaxy threaten to take over the Terran’s worlds. In this scenario steps the debonair, tough and pessimistic Dominic Flandry, half Hans Solo, half James Bond and a hero for the ages!

Tiger by the Tail!

Dominic Flandry is the central character in the second half of Poul Anderson’s ‘Technic History’ series. He first appeared in 1951. The space opera series is set in the thirty first century, during the waning days of the Terran Empire. Flandry is a dashing field agent of the Imperial Intelligence Corps who travels the stars to fight off imminent threats to the empire from both external enemies and internal treachery. His long time archenemy is Aycharaych, from the planet Chereion, a cultured but ruthless telepathic spymaster who weaves plots for the expansionistic rival empire of the alien Merseians. Similar to the James Bond stories which started two years later, every new adventure brings Flandry another beautiful damsel to woo and rescue. The illegitimate son of a minor nobleman, Flandry rises to considerable power within the decadent Empire by his own wits, and enjoys all the pleasures his position in society gives him. Still, he is painfully conscious of the impending fall of the Terran Empire and the subsequent ‘Long Night’ of a galactic Dark Age. His career is dedicated to holding it off for as long as possible.

War of the Gods

The story of the great King Hadding is one of the darkest and most violent to come down to us from the old North. Hadding was raised by giants far from his rightful throng, as his father, a Danish King, was slain shortly after Hadding’s birth. But the times comes when Hadding feels he must reclaim his legitimate place in the land of the old North. He must endure ferocious battles, the charms of voluptuous Valkyries, and a War of the Gods to rival Armageddon.

Harvest of Stars

Space pilot Kyra Davis, aided by an electronic ghost, risks her life in a desperate chess game to try to save a rebel corporation called Fireball from the repressive dictatorship that rules Earth.

The Stars are Also Fire

Returning to the universe of Harvest of Stars, a new era of space exploration journeys to a solar system dominated by machine intelligence, and the legacy of a single woman spells the fate for those of flesh and blood.

Harvest the Fire

Poul Anderson, a legend of SF, is the writer whom the mantle of Robert A. Heinlein descended upon. Anderson devoted his career to the visionary enterprise of creating science fiction set in a carefully extrapolated human society of the future in the spirit of Heinlein. Nowhere does he succeed more powerfully than in the works set in the future history that began in Harvest of Stars, continued in The Stars Are Also Fire, and now leaps into the distant future in Harvest the Fire. This is no less than the tale of the expansion of humanity to the limits of the solar system and beyond. It also chronicles the evolution of machine intelligence, until humans and machines come into conflict in an age when the outward urge and the urge to change are the chief barriers to utopia for many humans and for their machines. Harvest the Fire is the story of politics and poetry: of a poet, Jesse Nicol, who aspires to great work in an era when human literary greatness is apparently all in the past, who travels to the Moon and falls in love with a beautiful revolutionary, Falaire a woman determined to escape from the care of machines. For the machines are now the masters of humanity, and the great work of Falaire is freedom, which must be stolen from the machines. With the precision and clear focus of a master, Poul Anderson tells a sharp and poignant tale against an epic interplanetary background. Harvest the Fire is hard SF raised to the intensity of poetry.

The Fleet of Stars

In Fleet of Stars, Poul Anderson brings back the wildly colorful Anson Guthrie, his iconoclastic hero from Harvest of Stars. The staid, somber people of Earth are not only dependent on technology, they are all but ruled by machine intelligence. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress humankind’s last vestiges of freedom, Guthrie begins a dangerous journey across the realm of the comets, the asteroids, and the stars themselves willing to risk his life to preserve humanity’s ability to roam the universe.

Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!

One Hoka is a threat to human sanity. Two Hokas are a menace to civilization. And three Hokas…
Heaven help the galaxy, in this hilarious science fiction adventure from two of the best writers in the genre.

Three Hearts and Three Lions

The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threaten the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons and the Wild Hunt itself, are poised to overthrow the Realms of Light. Holger Carlsen, a bemused and puzzled twentieth century man mysteriously snatched out of time, finds himself the key figure in the conflict. Arrayed against him are the dragons, giants and elven warriors of the armies of Chaos, and the beautiful sorceress Morgan le Fay. On his side is a vague prophecy, a quarrelsome dwarf and a beautiful woman who can turn herself into a swan, not to mention Papillon, the magnificent battle horse, and a full set of perfectly fitting armour, both of which were waiting for him when he entered the magical realm. The shield bears Three Hearts and Three Lions the only clue to Holger Carlsen’s true identity. Could Carlsen really be a legendary hero, the only man who can save the world?

There Will Be Time

Jack Havig, a man born with the ability to move at will through the past and the future of mankind, must save the world from a doomed future of tyranny before his time runs out.

Orion Shall Rise

Years after Earth is devastated by nuclear weapons, the survivors of a floating solar station above Europe assist the emergence of a low tech civilization, until a treacherous faction seizes control of the station. Reissue.

The Legacy of Lehr (By:Katherine Kurtz)

When four large blue cats with psychic powers come aboard an interstellar luxury cruiser, a rash of murders breaks out.

Chess With A Dragon (By:David Gerrold)

Humanity tries to escape enslavement by intergalactic aliens.

A Dark Traveling (By:Roger Zelazny)

When a scientist learns that aliens in a parallel world are waging a secret war against the Earth, he disappears into that world and his children set out to find him.

Project Pendulum (By:Robert Silverberg)

Twins become involved in an experiment in time travel.

A Place of Silver Silence (By:Ardath Mayhar)

Ten year old Andraia fights with the government not to destroy the planet where she is working alone, because of an intelligent life form she has discovered there.

The Homecoming (By:Barry B. Longyear)

Inhabitants of Earth from seventy million years ago return to reclaim their planet. A struggling advertising man doin his six month reserve call up duty for the Air Force is sent to negotiate for the future existence of a newly evolved species: humanity.

Operation Chaos

This spring, Poul Anderson, winner of the Nebula Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement, published Operation Luna, the long awaited sequel to Operation Chaos. Here, available as a beautifully repackaged trade paperback, is the science fantasy extravaganza that started it all. In a war waged against black magic, the fact that Steve is a werewolf and his wife is a highly skilled witch is not unusual. But their adventures prove very unusual, even for their world, when they are given the task of neutralizing an enemys ultimate weapon, the worlds most powerful demon.

Operation Luna

Poul Anderson, recently the winner of the Nebula’s Grandmaster Award for lifetime achievement, returns to the world of his acclaimed novel Operation Chaos with the tale of one family’s mission to the moon. Ginny Greylock and Steven Matuchek are partners an Earth quite unlike our own. For starters, Ginny is a licensed witch and Steve is an engineer and werewolf. Steve moonlights by working on a spacecraft in the Arizona desert, a project which soon discovers that there is life on the moon. Neither Steve nor the US government has any inkling as to the nature of the moonsprites, and everyone is anxious to make contact. But when the time comes to test the spacecraft, a host of bugs, snafus, and angry spirits conspire to prevent the launch. It’s a recipe for perfect lunacy as Ginny and her clan struggle to figure out who, or what, is sabotaging the greatest magical and scientific achievement of the century.

Virgin Planet

He could see from above that this planet was inhabited. He emerged from the ship to find himself lassoed and captured by a beautiful redhead mounted on a strange, bird like creature. That was the first shock; the second was to realise that this world of women looked on him as a monster. For while the women of Atlantis had waited for the coming of the Men, they were certain that this creature who had landed on their planet could not possibly be a man.

The Shield of Time

Here is a science fiction story of a man from the Unattached Agent of the Time Patrol with a time mission. But how much suffering, throughout human history, can he bear to ‘preserve’?.

Vault of the Ages

Five hundred years from now, rival groups battle for the contents of a vault containing remnants of 20th century civilization which could guide their society out of its primitive state.

Brainwave

For millions of years, the part of the galaxy containing our solar system has been moving through a vast force field whose effect has been to inhibit ‘certain electromagnetic and electrochemical processes’ and thus certain neurotic functions. When Earth escapes the inhibiting field, synapse speed immediately increases, causing a rise in intelligence, which results in a transfigured humanity reaching for the stars, leaving behind our earth to the less intelligent humans and animal lifeforms. A transcendent look at the possible effects of enhanced intelligence on our planet.

The Broken Sword

Thor has broken the sword Tyrfing so that it cannot strike at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds together earth, heaven and hell. But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves in their war against the trolls, and only Scafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade Bolverk the ice giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Scafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling who has taken his place in the world of men.

The High Crusade

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world conquering procedure. Ah, but this time it’s no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave they’ve launched their invasion against free Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive and Sir Roger’s grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel. Unfortunately, he has not allowed for the treachery of the alien pilot, who instead takes the craft to his home planet, where, he thinks, these upstart barbarians will have no choice but to surrender. But that knavish alien little understands the indomitable will and clever resourcefulness of Englishmen, no matter how great the odds against them…

The Golden Slave

100 B.C. The Cimbrian hordes galloped across the dawn of history and clashed in screaming battle against the mighty Roman legions. Eodan, son of Chief Boierek, has been on the war campaign for many years. The Cimbrain army has become a hungry homeless pagan tribe. Their sworn enemy, the Romans, they have battled against gloriously. But for all the burning towns, the new caught women weeping, the wine drunk, the gold lifted, the Cimbri did not find a home. Eodan, the proud young chieftain, had been caught and sold into slavery, his infant son murdered and his beautiful wife, Hwicca, taken as a concubine. But the whips and slave chains could not break the spirit of this fiery pagan giant who fought, seduced and connived his way to a perilous freedom to rescue the woman he loved. A struggle that would make him a lover, pirate, commander, and in the end the struggle would make him a legend!

World Without Stars

Cover: Michael Whelan, 2nd Ace printing follows 1967 printing. New introduction by the author. Originally published in 1966, in Analog, as ‘The Ancient Gods.’ A spaceship crashes on an Earth like planet in the throes of a world war.

Tau Zero

For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30 light year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship’s deceleration system and it achieves light speed, Tau Zero itself.

Fire Time

The planet Ishtar has three suns: Bel, the ‘real’ sun, the Life Giver. Ea, the Companion who warms the Ishtaran summers. Anu, the Demon Star. Mostly Anu is so far away that it is just a light in the Ishtaran sky. But once every thousand years it comes close. It is then that the barbarians must flee their scorched lands, and civilizations fall. The natives call this Fire Time. Always before, its coming had meant the death of a civilization. But this time, the humans are here, and they have brought with them their magical technology. This time things could have been different. Too bad that the humans are suddenly faced with a war of their own, their own Fire Time.

The Winter of the World

Thousands of years from now, after a new Ice Age has reduced our world to frozen ruins, new civilizations and cultures arise from the Ice. But as the people of tomorrow slowly uncover the lost technology of the past, they also rediscover war, conquest, diplomacy…
and betrayal. While the might Rahidain Barammian Empire expands across the globe, Josserek Derrain, uncover agent for the freedom loving Seafolk, must find a way to save his people from the Empire’s grasp. His best hope is an alliance with the Rogaviki, a wild and nomadic race whose women are rumored to cast an unbreakable spell on any man who dares seek them out. Between barbarians and aristocrats, spied and soldiers, the battle lines are drawn in the ultimate conflict to determine who will rule over…
The Winter of the World.

New America

The benevolent, paternalistic World State regarded the freedom minded Jeffersonians as a minor embarrassment whose violent elimination would cause more disruption than their demise would merit. So both sides were happy when the chance came for voluntary exile to a distant planet. But two hundred years later the less benevolent descendant of the World State that had let them go was to decide that the cosmos was not big enough to hold both it and a free people

The Boat of a Million Years

Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.A milestone in modern science fiction, a New York Times Notable Book on its first publication in 1989, this is one of a great writer’s finest works.

Genesis

Artificial intelligence has been developed to a point where a human personality can be uploaded into a computer, achieving a sort of hybrid immortality. Astronaut Christian Brannock welcomes this technology, technology that will make it possible for him to achieve his dream of exploring the stars. A billion years later, Brannock returns to earth to check on some strange anomalies. While there he meets Laurinda Ashcroft, another hybrid upload, with whom he joins forces in investigating Gaia, the supermind dominating the planet. They must learn the truth of her shocking and terrifying secret plans for earth.

Starfarers

When evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered by SETI astronomers, an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy is planned and an eclectic team of scientists is chosen to make the trip. But because the origin of the alien signals is thousands of light years away, the crew will age only a few years while millennia pass on Earth. And though they are ready to face the ramifications of such a voyage, none of the Starfarers are prepared for what awaits them at the outer edge of the cosmos or back at the planet they once called home.

Mother of Kings

Blending characters historical and mythological, science fiction and fantasy grandmaster Poul Anderson has crafted a novel of magic, mystery and the might of ancient nations to rival Marian Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon. In the tenth century, during the violent end of the Age of the Vikings, Gunhild, the daughter of a Norse Chieftan, is sent away to learn the magic of a pair of Shamans. She learns her lessons well, and uses her power to summon her hearts desire, Eirlik Blood Ax. Gunhild’s magic is a powerful compliment to Eirik’s strength, but it is not enough to save him from death at the hands of his vicious rivals. Still, the sons they had will each become kings, and Gunhild’s own struggles are far from over.

For Love and Glory

From the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winning Grandmaster, a new novel of classic science fiction adventureMystery, discovery, and wonder on a cosmic scale are the core of Anderson’s latest novel. Lissa, a human Earth woman, and her partner, Karl, a giant alien academic who resembles Tyrannosaurs are interstellar archaeologists investigating the remote and uncharted planet Jonna. There, they seem to have hit the jackpot. For on that distant world they ve discovered an immense artifact that may have been left by the mysterious beings called the Forerunners. This race predated all the known cultures in the starfaring galaxy and vanished long before any other intelligent species had taken to the stars. But Lissa and Karl aren t the first to have made the discovery on Jonna. On the far off world the archaeologists cross paths with the two freebooters whose plans for motives towards the arcane object are not purely scientific. Their discovery may be the best preserved relic of the ancient beings yet found. Other artifacts from the Forerunners once reverse engineers have revolutionized entire fields of technology, reaping huge financial rewards. If the same holds true for this newest discovery, Lissa realizes, only she and Karl stand between the seemingly friendly freebooters and what could be the treasure of a lifetime.

Security

Poul Anderson was one of the most popular authors in SF. Born in 1921, he began his career in the Golden Age of SF in the 1950s, and was a regular contributor to Astounding SF magazine later Analog SF edited by John W. Campbell. His work encompassed science fiction and fantasy, including the Polesotechnic League series and the Terran Empire series featuring Dominic Flandry, and the fantasy Kingdoms of Ys series, written with his wife Karen. He received seven Hugo and three Nebula Awards, and a SFWA Grandmaster Award among other honors. He died in 2001.

‘Security‘ takes place in a future America, where Control and Efficiency are emphasized, and unquestioned loyalty is required. Nobody wants a repeat of the catastrophic war that happened seventy five years previously, and sacrifices must be made to insure the ultimate peace. Or so Dr. Allen Lancaster, a Sector Chief on a Project believes, until Security decides his planned vacation will be spent in space on a top secret project. People who learn too much have been jailed or even shot as Security risks. Is Dr. Lancaster’s new assignment a blessing or a curse? He will find out…

The Burning Bridge

Fleet Captain Joshua Coffin leads a cast of characters fleeing an unforgiving and unyielding Earth, to settle a colony around a far away star. But just as they are reaching ‘the point of no return,’ they receive a short message from Earth indicating that things are settling down and giving them the choice of perhaps returning home instead of fleeing into the desperate unknown. Hard choices need to be made. Is Captain Coffin up to the task, and at what cost?

Going for Infinity

A literary journey from the man USA Today called, One of science fictions most revered writersMore than just a collection of some of Poul Andersons most acclaimed works, Going for Infinity is a celebration and a memoir of Andersons distinguished sixty year career in science fiction and fantasy. Along with several Hugo and Nebula Award winning stories, which range over the entire length of Andersons career, he shares his autobiographical musings, including fond memories of such distinguished colleagues as John M. Campbell, Anthony Boucher, Gord@n R. Dickson, Jack Vance, Clifford Simak, and Harlan Ellison. Going for Infinity provides a firsthand look at six decades of science fiction and fantasy, as lived by one of the fields most honored contributors.

Sentiment, Inc.

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…
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Conflict

Ten stories deal with invasions, treason, colonies on other worlds, a brainwashing device, spies, wars in space, and a world in which assassination has replaced war.

Armies of Elfland

The author of The Broken Sword, known for his scientific accuracy and the creation of plausible fantasy worlds, presents this collection of tales of gods and warriors marching under the Armies of Elfland banners. Originally in paperback.

All One Universe

A rich, varied collection of quintessential science fiction stories, essays and adventures, by one of science fiction’s finest authors, is accompaned by extensive notes on the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author and his work.

To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories

From the aftermath of World War III to a world inherited by robots, where humans are unwelcome…
from a handful of human survivors on a starship desperately searching for other ships carrying survivors of the destruction of the entire Earth by an unknown enemy, who may strike again at any time, to another starship hurtling through the cosmos at a speed so close to that of light and unable to slow down that relativistic effects make millennia fly by for each tick of the clock onboard…
from a team striving to make Venus habitable for humans to a group of men who find the ominous secret behind a new quasi religious philosophy that is sweeping the world…
. The wide ranging imagination and exciting storytelling of Poul Anderson brings many different worlds to vivid life in a great volume of his best stories that will thrill all fans of science fiction.

Two Worlds of Poul Anderson: Science Fiction from the Golden Age

This volume collects one short novel and one short story by classic science fiction author Poul Anderson. ‘Industrial Revolution’ originally appeared in Analog Science Fact & Fiction, September 1963. ‘Duel on Syrtis’ originally appeared in Planet Stories, March 1951.

The Saturn Game

This is the third book in a multi volume series will include the very best of the short works by Poul Anderson, including all of his Hugo and Nebula nominated and winning short stories. This volume includes three of Anderson’s Hugo and Nebula award winning stories, ‘The Saturn Game‘, ‘No Truce with Kings’, and ‘Hunter’s Moon’.

Admiralty

‘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.

Conan the Adventurer (By:Robert E. Howard)

‘The lustiest adventurer in the world battles monsters, demons and magic in three of the mighty Cimmerian’s most fantastic tales: Red Nails, Jewels of Gwahlur and Beyond the Black River.’

Conan the Warrior (By:Robert E. Howard)

‘The lustiest adventurer in the world battles monsters, demons and magic in three of the mighty Cimmerian’s most fantastic tales: Red Nails, Jewels of Gwahlur and Beyond the Black River.’

Conan the Usurper (By:Robert E. Howard)

Under a sentence of death for his part in the winning the war for Aquilonia, Conan escapes from the jealous king intent on killing him and plots his revenge. Reissue.

Conan the Conqueror (By:Robert E. Howard)

‘Peace had reigned in Aquilonia, but when his beloved Queen Zenobia is stolen before his very eyes, Conan, the great barbarian king, cannot rest until he saves her. And so the most stupendous hero of fantasy adventure returns to the battlefield, matching his savage strength against the most monstrous forces of evil and doom.’

Conan the Avenger (By:Robert E. Howard)

‘Peace had reigned in Aquilonia, but when his beloved Queen Zenobia is stolen before his very eyes, Conan, the great barbarian king, cannot rest until he saves her. And so the most stupendous hero of fantasy adventure returns to the battlefield, matching his savage strength against the most monstrous forces of evil and doom.’

Conan of the Isles (By:Lin Carter)

As the Red Terror, a bizarre, magical dark force whose victims disappear without a trace, descends upon Aquilonia, King Conan sets out to destroy its source, evil, conquest hungry sorcerer priests from across the sea. Reissue.

Conan (By:Robert E. Howard)

Seven of the most exciting and fantastic adventures ever created! The unforgettable tales of the mighty Conan.

Conan the Buccaneer (By:L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter)

The hunt for a beautiful princess and a king’s treasure bring Conan to the edge of the world, where he must battle the hell fed powers of the sorcerer Thoth Ammon. Reissue.

Conan of Aquilonia (By:L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter)

A vengeful Conan journeys from the dark forests of Gunderland to the ends of the earth in pursuit of Thoth Amon and the evil wizards of the Black King who killed his son. Reissue.

Conan the Swordsman (By:L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter)

Imagine a world of gods and demons, where men are warriors, women are beautiful, life is a fantastic adventure, and the fate of kingdoms balances on the bloody blade of a fabulous hero: Conan of the iron thews, the blue eyed barbarian giant who towers above the savage Hyborian world. For the very first time in trade, this is the work that re launched Conan in both the 1970s and 80s, back in print after more than a decade. Come live the adventure again.

Conan the Liberator (By:L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter)

Aquilonia, once the proudest land in all of Hyboria, has fallen under the tyrannical reign of a mad king. As his brutal insanity sweeps the land, only one man dares stand against him: Conan the barbarian. Conan becomes the leader of an army of rebels, brave warriors who thought their battles would be fought with spear and sword, axe and dagger. In this they were mistaken, for their greatest foe is not the army of Aquilonia, but the vile sorcerer Thulandra Thuu. Dark clouds loom ahead for the people of Aquilonia, and only Conan can save them.

Conan: The Sword of Skelos (By:Andrew J. Offutt)

With the beautiful and fierce Isparana at his side, Conan must cross a brutal and deadly desert in order to deliver their precious cargo a magical amulet known as the Eye of Erlik. But rather than collecting untold riches for their rare treasure, they are betrayed by a ruthless tyrant and his evil mage. Conan has faced many mortal dangers, perils of magic and perils of steel. But when the treacherous prestidigitator unleashes the bloodthirsty Sword of Skelos, a weapon of both magic and steel a sword that can fight on its own Conan faces one of his most dire challenges. How will Conan survive this battle, when there is no foe to slay?

Conan the Rebel

A grand adventure of the mighty thewed barbarian, from one of Fantasy’s biggest namesConan, The name has inspired generations, one that resounds through time immemorial. Yet it all began with a handful of stories from Robert E. Howard. In the decades since, there have been feature films, television and comic book series, and numerous spin off novels. In 1979, Poul Anderson winner of a staggering eight Hugo and three Nebula Awards wrote what is regarded as one of the finest adventures in the canon of Conan: Conan the Rebel. Conan the barbarian and Belit, his raven haired beauty, lead a band of savage pirates striving to free Belit s people from the iron grip of an evil reptile god and its cruel minions. Striking at the heart of tyranny, Conan must break the chains of oppression before eternal darkness claims them all.

Conan and the Spider God (By:L. Sprague de Camp)

Conan is back, and at the top of his form!SFWA Grand Master L. Sprague de Camp was revered in the genre of fantasy for both his fiction and nonfiction. Booklist praised his novel The Honorable Barbarian, saying: The action is brisk, and the worlds and characters are described with de Camp’s deft, light touch…
thoroughly agreeable entertainment, while Kirkus Reviews said of The Pixilated Peeress the unassuming style and verve of the telling keep the pages turning. Pure prose junk food. But more important, L. Sprague de Camp wrote Dark Valley Destiny, the definitive biography of Conan’s creator, Robert E. Howard, leaving little wonder as to why Conan and the Spider God is considered one of the finest novels in the canon of Conan. Son of a blacksmith, a former slave and thief, Conan the Cimmerian has risen to the rank of Captain of the Royal Guard. But as usual, trouble is his bedfellow. Forced to kill while defending himself, Conan must flee the vengeance of the High Priest of Erlik. Foraging through field and forest, meeting friend and foe, Conan cuts a bloody swath through assassins and bounty hunters all the way to the sinister temple of Zath, where he encounters the huge and hideous Spider God. Facing certain death, Conan becomes both the hunter…
and the hunted. Conan and the Spider God is a thrilling adventure of the mighty barbarian, from one of the genre’s most revered authors.

Dangerous Visions

Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison’s 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards not surpising with a contributors list that reads like a who’s who of 20th century SF: Samuel D. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Roger Zelazny, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Larry Niven and Robert Silverberg. Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, honored the best of science fiction’s early short stories. This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas written between 1929 to 1964 and contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field.

Published in 1973 to honor novellas that had come before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands of young readers to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

This volume contains novellas by Poul Anderson, John W. Campbell Jr., Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, C. M. Kornbluth, Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, H. G. Wells, and Jack Williamson.

Continuum 2

Contains: ‘Stations of the Nightmare Part 2: The Startouched’ by Philip Jose Farmer; ‘Passing the Love of Women’ History of Rustum by Poul Anderson; ‘Caravans Unlimited: Stability’by Chad Oliver; ‘The Armageddon Tapes Tape II’ by Thomas N. Scortia; ‘Killashandra Crystal Singer’ by Anne McCaffrey; ‘The Death of Hyle’ by Gene Wolfe; ‘The Legend of Hombas’ Tales of a Darkening World by Edgar Pangborn; ‘The Fire Fountain’ The Night of the Storm by Gail Kimberly.

After the King

After the King presents an outstanding collection of new fantasy stories by an extraordinary assemblage of some of the very best writers to ever continue the tradition Tolkien began with The Lord of the Rings. Stephen R. Donaldson, Peter S. Beagle, Andrew Nortong, Terry Pratchett, Robert Silverberg, Judith Tarr, Gregory Benford, Jane Yolen, Poul and Karen Anderson, Mike Resnick, Emma Bull, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, John Brunner, Harrr Turtledove, Dennis L. McKiernan, Karen Haber, Barry M. Malzberg, and Charles de Lint contribute to a dazzling anthology that captures the spirit and originality of Tolkien’s great work. The millions whose lives have been touched by J.R.R. Tolkien will find the same primal storytelling magic here, undiluted an running ever on.

Murasaki

After twenty years of travel, the first ships bearing humans arrive in the Murasaki system, where they encounter the inhabitants of Murasaki‘s two mysterious worlds and where they unravel the mysteries of an alien ecosystem.

The Science Fiction Century

‘Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.’ So says David G. Hartwell in his introduction to The Science Fiction Century, an anthology spanning a hundred years of science fiction, from its birth in the 1890s to the future it predicted. David G. Hartwell is a World Fantasy Award winning editor and anthologist who has twice before redefined a genre first the horror field with The Dark Descent, then the subgenre of hard science fiction with The Ascent of Wonder, coedited with Kathryn Cramer. Now, Hartwell has compiled the mother of all definitive anthologies, guaranteed to change not only the way the science fiction field views itself but also the way the rest of literature views the field. The Science Fiction Century includes stories from the founding fathers of the field, such as H.G. Wells, C.S. Lewis, Jack London, and Rudyard Kipling; beloved mainstays of the genre, such as Philip Jos Farmer, Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, and Poul Anderson; noted female writers, including Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, and James Tiptree, Jr.; and writers who have hit their stride in the last two decades, such as Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Michael Swanwick, and James Morrow. Hartwell has also included writers widely recognized outside the genre, such as E.M. Forster, Michael Shaara, and John Crowley; and translations of foreign writers’ formative works, including Dino Buzzati and Wolfgang Jeschke. This is must have anthology for all literary interests.