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Poul Anderson

    25 november 1926 – 31 juli 2001

    Poul Anderson was een Amerikaanse sciencefictionauteur wiens carrière zich uitstrekte van de Gouden Eeuw van het genre tot in de 21e eeuw. Naast zijn productieve sciencefiction schreef hij ook fantasy, historische romans en een groot aantal korte verhalen. Zijn geschriften verkenden vaak thema's als geschiedenis, antropologie en de toekomst van de mensheid, gekenmerkt door ingewikkelde wereldopbouw en complexe personages. Anderson werd geprezen om zijn epische reikwijdte en zijn vaardigheid om wetenschappelijke concepten te verweven in meeslepende menselijke verhalen.

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    Prisma Science Fiction - 1547: Operatie Chaos
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    Het laatste kasteel
    • Het laatste kasteel

      De beste SF-verhalen van de meester

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      HET LAATSTE KASTEEL (The Last Castle, Galaxy Magazine, april 1966, vert.: Mark Carpentier Alting, illustraties: Marvano)GROENE MAGIE (Green Magic, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, juni 1963, vert.: Warner Flamen, illustraties: Lela Dowling)HET SMALLE LAND (The Narrow Land, Fantastic, juli 1967, vert: Jaime Martijn, illustraties: Tom Nesbitt)DE MENSEN KEREN TERUG (The Men Return, Infinity, juli 1957, vert: Warner Flamen, illustraties: Lela Dowling)DE DUIVEL OP DE VERLOSSINGSROTS (The Devil on Salvation's Bluff, Star Science Fiction 3, 1955, vert: Warner Flamen, illustraties: Marvano)SULWENS PLANEET (Sulwen's Planet, The Farthest Reaches, 1968, vert: Warner Flamen, illustraties: Frank ter Horst)HET GEHEIM (The Secret, Impulse, maart 1966, vert: Mark Carpentier Alting, illustraties: Lela Dowling)WANNEER DE VIJF MANEN OPKOMEN (When the Five Moons Rise, Cosmos Science Fiction, maart 1954, vert: Jaime Martijn, illustraties: Chris Vandendriessche)DE MAANVLINDER (The Moon Moth, Galaxy Magazine, augustus 1961, vert: Warner Flamen, illustraties: C. Lee Healy)

      Het laatste kasteel
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    • Met koningen geen vrede

      En 4 andere verhalen

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      MET KONINGEN GEEN VREDE (No Truce with Kings)RECHT EN GENADE (The Sharing of Flesh)KONINGIN VAN LUCHT EN DUISTERNIS (The Queen of Air and Darkness)BOKKENZANG (Goat Song)DE MAN DIE TE VROEG KWAM (The Man Who Came Early)

      Met koningen geen vrede
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    • 4 korte novellen van Poul Anderson: De tijdpatrouille Het koningschap vraagt moed De enige mogelijkheid Delenda est

      Avontuur in het verleden
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    • Galerij der giganten 4

      De beste science-fictionverhalen

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      6 verhalen van beroemde SF/Fantasy-schrijvers:Jerome Bixby: Het leven is goed (It's a good life, 1953)Poul Anderson: Zeg maar Joe (Call me Joe, 1957)Damon Knight: In het land der milden (The country of the kind, 1955)Daniel Keyes: Bloemen voor Algernon (Flowers for Algernon, 1959)Don A. Stuart: Wie is dat? (Who goes there?, 1938)Cyril M. Kornbluth: De zwakzinnigen trekken voorbij (The marching morons, 1951)

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    • Prisma Science Fiction - 1547: Operatie Chaos

      Magie, satanisme, occultisme bepalen de sfeer. Plaats van handeling: een parallelle wereld. Hoofdpersonen: weerwolf-man en zijn vrouw, chef-heks van professie.

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      Prisma Science Fiction - 1547: Operatie Chaos
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    • Sterren stralen overal

      En het felst in dit unieke boek met 18 schrijvers favorieten

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      18 SF/Fantasy-verhalen van evenzovele schrijvers.

      Sterren stralen overal
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    • Een gok om drie werelden

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      Een muitend Aards oorlogsruimteschip, voorzien van de allermodernste vernietigingswapens, terroriseert zowel de Aarde als de gekoloniseerde planeet Ganymedes. Ruimtepiloot Mark Frazer lijkt ondanks zijn ervaring geen partij voor deze machtige tegenstander. Toch stort hij zich fel en verbeten in een schijnbaar uitzichtsloos guerrilla-gevecht tegen onderdrukking en machtswellust. Nauwelijks is hij de strijd met de overmachtige vijand aangegaan of er komt een noodkreet van het verre Jupiter. Daar roept zijn intelligente, centaur-achtige vriend Theor zijn hulp in om een invasie van gruwelijke wezens het hoofd te bieden. Deze dubbele taak is één man te veel en de strijd lijkt bij voorbaat op beide fronten verloren. Langzaam en met beklemmende zekerheid dringt het tot Mark Frazer door dat het lot van drie werelden in zijn handen ligt. En hij aarzelt wanneer hij beseft dat alleen een snelle, roekeloze zelfmoordactie de problemen op kan lossen. Maar zijn aarzeling is van korte duur. Hij besluit de gok te wagen, een gok om drie werelden…. De Amerikaanse science fiction auteur Poul Anderson behoort inmiddels tot de vaste gasten in de SF-reeks van Elsevier. Zijn rijke talent blijkt uit de vele tientallen romans die hij in het genre heeft gepubliceerd. Anderson heeft diverse malen een Hugo en een Nebula gewonnen, de twee grote prijzen die de SF-wereld kent.

      Een gok om drie werelden
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    • Vlaag van verstand

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      Een vlaag van verstand overspoelt de Aarde en haar bewoners. Een I.Q. van 500 is iets heel gewoons, een moron heeft het verstand van een vroegere intellectueel. Wat gaat er veranderen op Aarde? Alles. Op dit thema baseert Poul Anderson zijn ongelooflijke, maar toch geloofwaardige vertelling. Chaos. Wanhoop. Waanzin. En nieuwe wijsheid? Klaar of niet, de mensheid is op weg naar een ongekende, overweldigende verstandspiek. Een nieuwe tijd breekt aan - opwindender, intenser - niets zal meer bij het oude blijven. En nieuwe wijsheid? Het duurt even voor de mens beseft wat hem overkomt. Ideeën schieten op in zijn geest, oplossingen voor eeuwenoude problemen liggen opoeens voor de hand; nieuwe problemen nemen echter griezelige vormen aan. Velen kunnen het niet zo gauw verwerken. De gevestigde maatschappij raakt totaal ontwricht. Tenslotte trachten verantwoordelijke mensen een nieuw verband te vinden en vooral een waardig doel voor deze nieuw verworven schat.

      Vlaag van verstand
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    • Kleine science fiction omnibus

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      Acht meesterwerkjes uit de science-fiction literatuur Inhoud: - Fata morgana - Clifford D. Simak - 'Arena' - Fredric Brown - Sam Hall - Poul Anderson - Wie de waarheid weer, wordt gek - Fredric Brown - Killdozer - Theodore Sturgeon - Een sprankje groen - Fedric Brown - Bruggehoofd - Clifford D. Simak - Want ik ben een naijverig God - Lester del Rey

      Kleine science fiction omnibus
    • Classic tales of science fiction adventure from the bestselling author of The Boat of a Million Years. From Earthman, Beware! to Flight to Forever , here are vigorous, fast-paced, spectacular tales from the Golden Age of Science stories full of startling ideas and swashbuckling adventure--as only Poul Anderson could tell them.Tell Me a StoryFlight to ForeverTerminal QuestThe Star BeastEarthman, Beware!Son of the SwordBallade of an Artificial Satellite (Poem)

      Alight in the Void
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    • Snowball

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      Preserving a significant classical work, this edition of Snowball has been meticulously reformatted and retyped for clarity and readability. Alpha Editions aims to ensure that this important text remains accessible to both present and future generations by presenting it in a modern format, distinct from scanned copies of the original.

      Snowball
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    • Hoka Hoka Hoka

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      Alexander Jones, a representative of the Interbeing League for the teddy-bear-like Hoka species, finds his assignment challenging when the human-emulating Hokas are unable to discern Earth fact from fiction.

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    • The Byworlder (Coronet Books)

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      THE SECRET OF THE SIGMAN Skip Wayburn, artist drifter, sigaroon, gulped down his food with nothing on his mind but a long evening of lovemaking. Far above him, the first emissary from interstellar space continued to orbit the globe. For three years it had been there, and still there were nothing but questions. What had lured the voyager from Sigma Dacron's to Earth? How did the creature plan to use its incredible power? And most important, why was it waiting...and for what? Then, in a blinding flash of insight, Skip Wayburn suddenly knew the answers... knew with dead certainty why the Sigman had come, who "he' was, and precisely what the Earthmen must do. But who would listen to the far-out ideas of a mere sigaroon? Skip didn't know. But someone had to listen—and fast.

      The Byworlder (Coronet Books)
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    • Exiles

      3 Novellas

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      Second in the series of classic SF novellas edited by Ben BovaGypsy by Poul Anderson...And Then There Were None by Eric Frank RussellProfession by Isaac Asimov

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    • The Long Night

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      The legendary Nicholas van Rijn had, of course, been right all along. Just as he had foreseen, the Polesotechnic League - that great empire of merchant princes - had flowered and then crumbled into the vastness of space. The same fate would befall the Terran Empire that succeeded it. Even heroes like Dominic Flandry lived under the shadow of their eventual extinction - the ever-hungry darkness that would take him and his world in the end. But for those who came after, those wretched heirs of Terran civilisation, the darkness was no impending tragedy. This time they were facing the reality of THE LONG NIGHT

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    • In book three of the King of Ys series, Gratillonius’s reign faces a deadly new threat from across the seaFor sixteen years Gratillonius has been the king of Ys, a position he has used to bring the once-teetering city-state back to stability as the Roman Empire continues to collapse around it. Rome would prefer a more malleable leader in Gratillonius’s place and makes no secret of it. As pressure from Roman leadership increases, Gratillonius must also contend with Niall maqq Echach, the leader of Northern Ireland who holds the Ysan king responsible for the death of his son. Compounding these complications is the ever-present threat of retribution by the Ysan gods, should the kingdom’s leadership make a misstep. But perhaps the greatest danger of all is unfolding from within Gratillonius’s own household, where, following the death of one of his nine wives, the gods have named an unsettling Dahut, Gratillonius’s own daughter. As treachery mounts from within and without, Gratillonius must hold to his principles in defiance of the gods while still protecting Ys from the destruction closing in on all sides. Dahut is the third book in Poul and Karen Anderson’s King of Ys series, which concludes with The Dog and the Wolf .

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    • 7 harrowing stories of men caught up in tomorrow's age of ultraviolence Kings Who Die evokes the special terrors that confront spacemen captured in interpla-netary war. Wildcat chronicles a desperate attempt to send a team of men through a time machine back into the age of brontosaurs—there to prospect for oil and pump it back into the present. Cold Victory depicts the holocaust of an interplanetary civil war fought to prevent Earth's secession from the Solar Union. Inside Straight spins the tale of a peaceful planet that employs the superstrategies of gambling tipsters to foil its archenemies. Details unfolds a suspenseful drama of international events influenced by unseen visitors. License probes the fate of man living in a world where violence is legalized by state licenses. Strange Bedfellows describes the mind-boggling intricacies of corporate political battles in tomorrow's world.

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    • DEATH TO THE EMPIRE! The Terran Empire was faced with disaster. A turmoil of unrest on the planet Diomedes was the first spark that threatened to ignite a chain reaction of insurrection. All the attention of the ruling powers was centred on Diomedes - but Sir Dominic Flandry, bon vivant and interstellar troubleshooter, was one jump ahead. Through a highly unorthodox gambit, Flandry had learned that the Diomedean troubles were a red herring masking the real location of a deadly plan for a galactic civil war that would crush the Empire out of existence. Time was running out. Only Flandry had the knowledge that could prevent devastation. And when the real trouble began, Flandry was half a universe away. (Source: back cover)

      A knight of ghosts and shadows
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    • The Broken Sword

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      The sword Tyrfing has been broken to prevent it striking at the roots of Yggdrasil, the great tree that binds earth, heaven and hell together...but now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves, who are heavily involved in their war against the trolls and only Scafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade the mighty ice-giant, Bolverk, to make the sword Thor broke whole again.But things are never easy and along the way Scafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling, who took his place in the world of men.A superb dark fantasy of the highest and most Norse order, THE BROKEN SWORD is a fantasy masterpiece.

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    • Three Hearts and Three Lions

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      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?

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    • 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 High Crusade
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    • Dangerous Visions

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      Along with Moorcock's "New Worlds," "Dangerous Visions" defined the New Wave movement in science fiction

      Dangerous Visions
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    • Flandry of Terra

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      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.

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    • Time Patrolman

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      Contents 7 • Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks • [Time Patrol • 6] • novella by Poul Anderson 117 • The Sorrow of Odin the Goth • [Time Patrol • 7] • novella by Poul Anderson

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    • Time Patrol

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      Set in a far-future agency responsible for maintaining the continuity of human history, this novel introduces new adventures within the Time Patrol series. It features a blend of fresh narratives alongside all previous tales, showcasing the author's acclaimed storytelling. With a rich backdrop of time travel and historical integrity, readers can expect a captivating exploration of the implications and challenges faced by those who guard the timeline.

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    • Time Patrol: The Shield of Time

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      Contents: 1 • The Stranger That Is Within Thy Gates • (1990) • short story by Poul Anderson 9 • Women and Horses and Power and War • (1990) • novella by Poul Anderson 125 • Before the Gods That Made the Gods • (1990) • short story by Poul Anderson 137 • Beringia • (1990) • novella by Poul Anderson 257 • Riddle Me This • (1990) • short story by Poul Anderson 267 • Amazement of the World • (1990) • novella by Poul Anderson

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    • Another war, the most terrible nuclear disaster in the history of man has scorched and crippled all life on the surface of earth. In a few isolated zones human survival has occurred. Among these groups the birth rate is said to be phenomenal. There are reports of strange mutations of the human species appearing as frequently as fifty or sixty in a hundred births. Only a few of these strange mutations have been strong enough to survive, but some are reported to be reproducing their kind. A physical and mental examination of these freaks is being undertaken at the present time

      Twilight World
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    • Mirkheim

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      A star explodes. And a billion years later, a galaxy explodes in war. When the heavy metal ruin of Mirkheim is discovered at the edge of Known Space, the gigantic planet becomes the center of a war that is fought in all the far reaches of Earth's dazzling and corrupt empire. This epic adventure of the end of a thousand-year civilization sweeps from hyperspace skirmishes in the radio glare of dark suns, to the bloody deals in the corridors of Earth itself, where the stars are traded like coins.

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    • Contents: The Saturn Game (1981) The Bitter Bread (1975) The Ways of Love (1979) The Voortrekkers (1974) Epilogue (1962) Starfog (1967)

      Explorations
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    • 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.

      There will be Time
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    • Tau Zero

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      Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so (as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will slow and so the journey of several decades will be of much shorter duration for the crew. But the ship's deceleration system is irreparably damaged when it hits a cloud of interstellar dust and acceleration continues toward light speed, tau zero. Soon the ship is speeding through galaxies and eons are passing on board the ship in the blink of an eye . . .

      Tau Zero
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    • The Stars Are Also Fire

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      Larry Niven called "Harvest of Stars" "a masterpiece."Now Poul Anderson returns to the same brilliantly conceived future to tell a story of revolution and liberation on the Moon.

      The Stars Are Also Fire
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    • 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.

      Operation Luna
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    • The Devil's Game

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      Seven people--including a porno star, a mercenary soldier, and a woman who cannot afford the treatment to save her child--come to Havener's Island to play a deadly game with a million tax-free dollars as the prize. But they are unaware their host is following the instructions of an inhuman creature--and even Havener doesn't know the real purpose of his demonic master's game.

      The Devil's Game
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    • Starfarers

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      When SETI astronomers stumble upon evidence of a highly advanced starfaring civilization, an expedition made up of a motley assortment of scientists is put together to investigate, but their journey could have unexpected ramifications.

      Starfarers
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    • A Circus of Hells

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      DEATH MOON! Crack Lieutenant Dominic Flandry was not a man easily swayed from his duty to the Empire... not, that is, until galactic vice king Leon Ammon offered him a million credit bribe, a voluptuous woman called Djana, and a commission to explore a dark and treasureladen moon. But within the desolate peaks and valleys of that strange world of ice and shadow, Flandry found more he had bargained for. Supposedly barren, the planet swarmed with a hideous race of strange, inhuman creatures... infernally controlled by a deranged and brilliant computer brain. Each creature, like a piece in a bizarre and lethal chess game, was programmed to kill. And although Flandry did not know it – so was the woman he loved...

      A Circus of Hells
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    • The Game of Empire

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      Introduces Diana Flandry, the illegitimate daughter of Dominic Flandry, and her indomitable accomplice, Targovy the Tigery

      The Game of Empire
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    • Tales of the Flying Mountains

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      Leaving behind the conflicts between Earth's inhabitants and the Asteroid Republic, the crew aboard the spaceship Astra embark on mankind's first venture beyond the solar system

      Tales of the Flying Mountains
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    • A Midsummer Tempest

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      A tale of an alternative universe with Shakespeare as a historian.

      A Midsummer Tempest
    • Poul Anderson has long been known for his love affair with the legends and myths of the great Norse heroes. Coordinating, translating, re-telling the scattered heroic literature could only be the work of a scholar and a lover of the genre. That Mr. Anderson also happens to be a talented writer is our great good luck. Ballantine Books Adult Fantasy Series is proud to present HROLF KRAKI'S SAGA, a keening, blood-rimed tale of men who walked like gods.

      Hrolf Kraki's Saga
    • Tomorrow - and the day after. When men are scattered like dust between the galaxies...In these six full-length novellas, never before published in book form, Hugo Award-winner Poul Anderson creates all the chilling terror and distant hope of man's last frontier - the vast wilderness between the stars!Memory: They peeled his mind from his body and sent him to enslave the planet of his own people...Day Of Burning: An interplanetary Mafia is chosen to save a strange civilization from a Supernova...Brake: Only one thing could stop the ship at such a speed. But with the Solar System in upheaval, who would try?The Sensitive Man: A world balances on the brink of a new dawn - or a new Dark Age. And one man can push it either way.The Moonrakers: They were space pirates with dreams of Empire - nomads from the far edge of the system who must be stopped.Starfog: The ship was trapped in a corner of space so crowded with stars that nothing could penetrate the deadly, glowing fog.

      Beyond the Beyond
    • Emerging Infections 5 is the fifth of an annual series of books based on ICAAC Symposia on Emerging Infections. It provides a complete and updated discussion of new and emerging infectious diseases, covering both basic science and clinical topics. The editors are in the forefront of the scientific and clinical communities dealing with emerging pathogens. This book and the series will be valuable to a wide range of people working in microbiology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, and clinical medicine.

      Emerging infections 5
    • Murder In Black Letter

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      Set against a backdrop that hints at legal and historical themes, this mystery novel revolves around a murder investigation, as suggested by its title. Departing from Poul Anderson's usual science fiction narratives, it immerses readers in the intricacies of the mystery genre. The term "Black Letter" may evoke a sense of Gothic intrigue, adding depth to the storyline. While specific plot details and character developments remain undisclosed, the novel promises a unique exploration of crime and investigation within a distinctive context.

      Murder In Black Letter
    • Tiger by the Tail

      • 36bladzijden
      • 2 uur lezen

      The book is a classical work that holds significant historical importance. Alpha Editions has undertaken the task of preserving it for future generations by republishing it in a modern format. The entire text has been reformatted, retyped, and designed to ensure clarity and readability, distinguishing it from typical scanned copies of older works.

      Tiger by the Tail
    • Fantasy Magazine, February 1953

      • 166bladzijden
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      Featuring a collection of classic science fiction and fantasy stories, this replica of the February 1953 FANTASY MAGAZINE includes works by renowned authors such as Robert E. Howard and Poul Anderson. Readers can explore diverse narratives, from Howard's "THE BLACK STRANGER" to Sheckley's "THE DEMONS," showcasing the genre's rich history. The magazine is in the public domain, making it accessible for fans of vintage literature and those interested in the evolution of speculative fiction.

      Fantasy Magazine, February 1953
    • IS THERE LIFE IN OTHER WORLDS?

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      Exploring the nature of life beyond Earth, the author delves into scientific insights and bold conclusions about extraterrestrial existence. Poul Anderson, a celebrated figure in science fiction, combines fast-paced storytelling with rigorous scientific knowledge. The book covers diverse topics such as intelligence, evolution, interstellar communication, and the potential for colonization of new worlds. Originally published in 1963, this authentic reproduction retains the essence of Anderson's exploration into the cosmos and the future of humanity.

      IS THERE LIFE IN OTHER WORLDS?
    • Dominic Flandry, Vol. 1

      • 228bladzijden
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      The collection features the initial four stories of Dominic Flandry, who is introduced as a Captain and later revisited as an Ensign in subsequent tales. This volume presents the early adventures of Flandry, showcasing his character development and the sci-fi universe in which he operates. Readers can explore the origins of this iconic character through these captivating narratives.

      Dominic Flandry, Vol. 1
    • FLANDRY IS BACKThis is the culmination of the greatest adventure series in the history of science fiction.With A Stone In Heaven Poul Anderson has brought the career of Dominic Flandry full cycle. From the beginning Flandry has piece by piece mortgaged his soul that the Long Night of galactic barbarism might be held off just a little longer. Now, face to face with his personal Long Night, Flandry is offered one last chance for love and honor in a universe he has come to believe holds neither...Massively illustrated.

      A Stone in Heaven
    • Entscheidung über den Wolken.

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