Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Poul Anderson tells a breathtaking tale of Earth. Immortal humans take to the skies to travel to the stars and galaxies in a great space adventure.Nominated for the Nebula Award in 1989.Nominated for the Hugo Award in 1990.

First Published in Galaxy Science Fiction, February 1956. From the collection The High Ones and Other Stories by Poul Anderson published in 2010 by Wonder Publishing Group.www.WonderPublishingGroup.com

A power struggle for time itself.The corridors of time connect the ages to each other. Through them, one can travel backwards and forwards over the history of man. But rival factions have waged war for centuries.... Malcolm is an ordinary man of today, caught up in a time war beyond his comprehension....

Victims of the vortex!The voices pierced Duncan’s own, and brought him jerkily about. Three! A yellow-bearded man in spike-topped helmet and chainmail; a short, leather-coated, fur-capped rider on a rearing pony; a tall, slender woman in knee-length white dress. And Duncan Reid.The horseman got his mount under control. At once he snatched a double-curved bow that hung at his saddle, an arrow from the quiver beside, and had the weapon strung and armed. The blond man roared and lifted an ax. The woman drew a knife of reddish metal.Reid struggled to wake from this nightmare....

With this story, I’ve enter a future in which mankind has spread itself far out into the galaxy of which Earth’s sun — and Earth itself, of course — are such microscopically small bits of dust. In Anderson’s concept, most life forms encountered seem to be essentially humanoid. In this story, indeed, they are not only humanoid, but measurably “human” in their psychological reactions. If one wanted to draw some comparisons, one could, I suppose, compare Cundaloa in this tale with the islands of the Pacific, and Skontar with the Scandinavian countries. Sweden, for example, is Swedish through and through. Hawaii? Whatever Hawaii is, and it sounds wonderful for a vacation, it surely no longer belongs to the original Hawaiians… You will get the point of this analogy as you read on, of course.Poul Anderson

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 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!Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1961.

Like two giants the old enemies faced each other across the reaches of the galaxy — the Terran Empire and the Ythrian Domain. Terra was a Leviathan, encroaching ever further among the stars, promising peace and prosperity — but at the price of freedom. Ythri was smaller, but an empire in its own right, peopled by birdlike beings with a civilization and intellect that easily matched Terra’s own.Nominated for Nebula Award in 1973, Hugo and Locus awards in 1974.

Won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1969.Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novelette in 1969.

Earthmen and Aleriona have met in space and neither side can afford to let the other get too strong. The Aleriona have captured the human outpost, New Europe, and claim that all the inhabitants were killed. The World Federation on Earth seems committed to peace at any price, but there are those, and ex-navy Captain Gunnar Heim is one of them, who know that appeasement will only lead to further Alerion encroachment, and he passionately believes that there must be a showdown now, before its too late.The Star Fox is a novelization of three stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: “Marque and Reprisal” (February, 1965), “Arsenal Port” (April, 1965), and “Admiralty” (June, 1965).“Marquee and Reprisal” was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966.

Earthmen and Aleriona have met in space and neither side can afford to let the other get too strong. The Aleriona have captured the human outpost, New Europe, and claim that all the inhabitants were killed. The World Federation on Earth seems committed to peace at any price, but there are those, and ex-navy Captain Gunnar Heim is one of them, who know that appeasement will only lead to further Alerion encroachment, and he passionately believes that there must be a showdown now, before its too late.The Star Fox is a novelization of three stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: “Marque and Reprisal” (February, 1965), “Arsenal Port” (April, 1965), and “Admiralty” (June, 1965).“Marquee and Reprisal” was nominated for Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1966.

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.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1973.

Wie is de beeldschone Storm Darroway? En wat verwacht zij van Malcolm Lockridge?Het zijn vragen die de zojuist uit de gevangenis ontslagen Lockridge nauwelijks interesseren. Voor hem is zij immers in de eerste plaats een redder in hoge nood en al spoedig daarna — en onder wat voor onvermoede omstandigheden! — zijn minnares.Toch zijn er mensen die haar met andere ogen bezien. De Tenil Orugaray noemen haar vol ontzag ‘De Storm’. Anderen zien haar als de onsterfelijke godin die leven schenkt. Voor Brann en zijn gardisten is zij onmiskenbaar een misdadige avonturierster, een meedogenloze vijand die even meedogenloos vernietigt dient te worden.Samen met deze raadselachtige vrouw betreedt Lockridge de tunnels van de tijd, een web van tijdlijnen dat toegang geeft tot verleden, heden en toekomst. Daar, tijdens de talrijke, gevaarvolle zwerftochten die het uiterste van zijn geest en lichaam vergen, leert hij vele aspecten van haar wezen kennen. Maar helemaal doorgronden kan hij haar nooit.Bovendien woedt rondom hem een oorlog waarin hem, zo blijkt al spoedig, een belangrijke rol is toebedeeld. Een oorlog ook die hem dwingt een keuze te maken: voor of tegen Storm. Een keuze die niet alleen voor hem, maar ook voor de toekomst van onpeilbaar groot belang is…

The time is the 23rd century, and ships are crawling outward from Earth into the interstellar depths. It will take them centuries to reach even the nearer stars, but once they do, future travel will be instantaneous. The ships carry matter transmitters which are not subject to the limitations of lightspeed. In the meantime crews can flit back and forth between the ships and Earth, but until now their only purpose has been to stand watch. Until now. At last one ship has made contact with the stars.First published in Astaunding Science Fiction magazine in 1958. Later published in slightly changed book form as The Enemy Stars.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1959.

Zaklęty miecz jest spragniony! Rozszczepia najtęższe żelazo. Śpiewa o rozłupanych czerepach. Gasi pragnienie w strumieniach krwi.Trwa straszna wojna między Królestwem Elfów a chłodną krainą Trollów, które starły się w najkrwawszej z bitew. I jedyną nadzieją Elfów jest porwany przez nich młodzieniec, Skaflok…