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David Falkayn: Star Trader
1. Poul Anderson remains one of science fiction's most popular writers, and this generous volume of his best work, with wide-ranging themes and settings, will attract his thousands of fans and win him many new ones. 2. Included is a complete novel, Satan's World, and a number of equally exciting short novels. 3. A book with strong appeal to readers of David Drake's RCN series. 4. Many of the works in this volume have been out of print for years, and none have been previously gathered together in chronological sequence. Long-time Anderson fans will welcome old friends, and newer Anderson fans will find a host of prime, real science fiction by one of the field's very best. 5. Advertising in Lo...
David Falkayn: Star Trader
"Another member, weighing in at a ton in Earth gravity, is the reptilian Adzel. Looking like a centaurian dragon, he's as imperturbable as Chee Lan is high-strung, and abhorred violence even before becoming a Buddhist, though he has no problem defending himself, or his comrades." "Finally, there's Muddlehead, the computer who handles most of the operations of the ship. It often shows initiative at the most unexpected times, sometimes exasperating the organic members of the team, but outsmarting the bad guys at other times. Now if only it didn't sound so smug, particularly when it wins at poker. ..." "David Falkayn: Star Trader continues the complete publication in chronological order for the first time of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization series, a landmark in science fiction to equal Robert A. Heinlein's Future History series, Frank Herbert's Dune series, and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series."--BOOK JACKET.
Rise of the Terran Empire
Nicholas van Rijn, the most flamboyant member of the Polesotechnic League of star traders, could see dark times ahead. Fellow league members were using tactics verging on outright piracy, and others were all too eager to sell starships and high-tech weapons to alien barbarians. A planet not previously known for interstellar commerce suddenly revealed a secret fleet of armed starships, and started building an empire. Even if Van Rijn and his right-hand man David Falkayn could find a way to stop this blatant aggression, the glory days of the League were over. Hereafter, for its own protection against well-armed alien marauders the Earth must maintain a strong military fleet, and one charismati...
They're Here!
THE ALIENS ARE AMONG US! “Where is everybody?” Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi once asked after a discussion about the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. To sum up the Fermi Paradox, if the billions of stars in our galaxy have planets with intelligent life on them, why hasn’t anyone visited us? But maybe they have, and we just haven’t noticed—and that’s the way they want it. And if they are here in secret, why are they here? Are they tourists? Anthropologists, perhaps? Or journalists sending stories back about the quaint habits of the primitives? Or maybe the extraterrestrial equivalent of hunters or fishermen? (Any odd disappearances in your ne...
The Frog Rider
CONTENTS The Frog Rider The Wooden Horse Ma Liang and His Magic Brush The Story of Hero Shigar The Third Son and the Magistrate Seeking Her Husband at the Great Wall Olive Lake How the Brothers Divided Their Property Stories About Nasrdin Avanti
The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 1
FROM THE ASHES OF WORLD WAR III World War III has ravaged the globe. Once great nations have been brought to their knees. Now, a new science offers hope for the future: Psychodynamics, the ability to influence government and popular opinion. Led by the Psychotechnic Institute, humanity denounces its violent ways, once and for all. While peace reigns on Earth, humankind ventures out into the Solar System—and to the stars beyond. But soon the cycle of war and destruction begins anew. The first of three volumes collecting all of multiple Hugo- and Nebula-Award winning author Poul Anderson's massive future history magnum opus. Includes short stories previously uncollected in a Psychotechnic League volume! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About Poul Anderson: "One of science fiction's authentic geniuses."–Chicago Sun-Times “Anderson fuses elegiac prose and a sweeping vision of man’s technological future…”–Booklist “One of science fiction’s giants.”–Arthur C. Clarke
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 enslave¾they've launched their invasion against free Englishmen! In the end, only one alien is left alive¾and Sir Roger's grand vision is bor...
Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra
A KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR IN A SAVAGE GALAXY Captain Dominic Flandry has been knighted for his many services to the Terran Empire¾an Empire which is old, jaded, and corrupt, as Flandry well knows¾but he also knows that the Empire is better than anything that is likely to take its place. And while that _SirÓ before his name may be an added attraction to comely ladies (not that he has ever lacked for the pleasant company of the same), he expects that it will also bring him less welcome attention from envious _colleaguesÓ within the empire. What it is not likely to do is make him more of an object of interest to the alien Merseians, whose plots against the Empire he has repeatedly foiled. They...
The Van Rijn Method
The Buck Starts Here! Think there's an unbridgeable gulf between human and alien thought Not so! There's a common tongue, all right -- and Nicholas Van Rijn speaks it fluently: TRADE. For behind the buffoonish blarney and bawdy bonhomie of the Falstaffian Van Rijn is a man who gets things done. A born wheeler-dealer who usually leaves both sides better off in the bargain. (While pocketing a hefty cut of the profits himself, of course!) With The Man Who Counts and a passel of other tales included, this is the first of three volumes set to contain the complete cycle of _Polesotechnic LeagueÓ books and stories by transcendently-gifted science fiction master (how does seven Hugos and three Nebula Awards strike you ) Poul Anderson _ and starring Nicholas Van Rijn, his most famous character of all! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
