An Alphabetical Title Index to the NESFA Press Edition of The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson
compiled by Fred Lerner
Poul Anderson is one of the great 20th-century science fiction writers, whose stories are both highly entertaining and deeply thought-provoking. In assembling this collection of Poul’s shorter pieces Rick Katze has done science fiction readers a great service. In his Editor’s Introduction Rick writes that “the stories are not in any discernible pattern”. This admirably suits those who prefer a serendipitous approach to choosing an evening’s reading, but makes things difficult for someone looking for a
particular story. Hence this simple index to the contents of The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson.
Volume 1: Call Me Joe
Volume 2: The Queen of Air and Darkness
Volume 3: The Saturn Game
Volume 4: Admiralty
Volume 5: The Door to Anywhere
Volume 6: A Bicycle Built for Brew
Volume 7: Question and Answer
Admiralty –– 4:11-55
The adventure of the misplaced hound –– 4:56-73
The alien enemy –– 1:295-307
Among thieves –– 4:412-430
Arsenal port –– 3:244-289
Autumn [poem] –– 1:283
Backwardness –– 1:187-194
Ballad of an artificial satellite [poem] –– 1:240
Barbarous Allen [poem] –– 1:353
Barnacle bull –– 1:399-411
The barrier moment –– 4:307-312
The big rain –– 7:102-151
Birthright –– 5:418-436
The bitter bread –– 4:171-190
A bicycle built for brew –– 6:12-75
Black bodies [song] –– 4:231-232
Brake –– 2:169-195
Brave to be a king –– 2:137-166
The burning bridge –– 2:204-222
Call me Joe –– 1:11-36
Christa McAuliffe [poem] –– 2:168
Clausius’ chaos [poem] –– 1:100
The corkscrew of space –– 2:361-368
Cradle song [poem] –– 2:81
Critique of impure reason –– 2:439-454
The death will come [poem] –– 1:438
Deathwomb –– 5:35-62
Delenda est –– 4:74-103
Door to anywhere –– 5:11-34
The double-dyed villains –– 1:157-177
Einstein’s distress [poem] –– 1:444
Elementary mistake –– 3:420-431
Enough rope –– 1:308-328
Epilogue –– 2:465-501
Eutopia –– 4:334-349
Eve times four –– 3:455-480
Eventide [poem] [incomplete?] –– 1:307
Fairy gold –– 5:83-102
The fatal fulfillment –– 5:324-358
The first love, by Olaf Haraldsson [poem] –– 1:156
Flight to forever –– 1:360-398
For the duration –– 5:359-370
Genius –– 1:196-222
Gibraltar falls –– 5:146-154
Goat song –– 4:281-306
Gypsy –– 4:191-202
Haiku [poem] –– 1:195
Heinlein’s stories [poem] –– 1:107
The helping hand –– 1:58-76
Hiding place –– 3:290-318
Holmgang –– 4:257-280
Home –– 4:213-223
Honesty [poem] –– 1:294
Honorable enemies –– 7:392-409
Horse trader –– 4:350-371
Hunter’s moon –– 3:481-509
Hunters of the sky cave –– 7:468-548
The immortal game –– 1:178-186
In hoka signo vinces –– 5:201-216
In the shadow –– 7:306-322
Industrial revolution –– 2:48-80
Innocent at large –– 2:344-358
Inside straight –– 4:128-145
Jennifer’s lament [poem] –– 2:47
Jennifer’s song [poem] –– 2:196
Journey’s end –– 1:101-107
Kings who die –– 1:445-466
Kinnison’s band [song] –– 1:57
Kyrie –– 4:233-241
Last of the deliverers –– 5:408-417
The life of your time –– 5:217-230
A little knowledge –– 2:369-384
The live coward –– 1:223-240
Lodestar –– 4:146-170
Logic –– 1:108-128
The longest voyage –– 2:114-136
MacCannon [poem] –– 1:425
The man who came early –– 1:266-283
Marius –– 4:203-212
Marque and reprisal –– 2:385-435
The Martian crown jewels –– 1:426-438
The master key –– 5:103-129
A message in secret –– 7:261-305
Midsummer song [poem] –– 2:167-168
Murphy’s hall –– 4:372-382
Mustn’t touch –– 3:408-419
My object all sublime –– 2:337-343
The nest –– 5:63-82
No truce with kings –– 3:51-95
Ochlan [poem] –– 1:466
Of the sea [poem] –– 2:463-464
The only game in town –– 3:165-187
Operation afreet –– 2:82-104
Operation changeling –– 4:431-505
Operation incubus –– 5:155-167
Operation salamander –– 3:96-116
Outpost of empire –– 7:410-467
Peek! I see you –– 3:432-454
The pirate –– 2:259-280
A plague of masters –– 6:394-470
Prayer in war [poem] –– 1:36
The problem of pain –– 4:242-256
Prophecy –– 1:439-444
The pugilist –– 4:104-127
The queen of air and darkness –– 2:13-47
Question and answer –– 7:15-79
Quixote and the windmill –– 4:224-230
Recruiting nation –– 5:130-145
Robin Hood’s barn –– 3:141-164
Route song of the winged folk [poem] –– 2:359-360
Sam Hall –– 3:117-140
Sargasso of lost starships –– 5:371-407
The Saturn game –– 3:10-50
Say it with flowers –– 2:324-336
Science and creation [essay] –– 2:455-463
Science fiction and history [essay] –– 2:224-230
Science fiction and science: On imaginary
science [essay] –– 2:105-113
Science fiction and science: The hardness of hard science fiction [essay] –– 2:197-203
Sea burial [poem] –– 1:444
The sensitive man –– 6:248-290
Silent victory –– 6:291-359
Sister planet –– 4:383-411
The snows of Ganymede –– 6:150-207
The star beast –– 4:313-333
The star plunderer –– 5:231-250
Starfog –– 1:467-509
Strangers –– 5:437-452
A sun invisible –– 3:382-407
Sunjammer –– 3:221-243
Supernova –– 3:188-220
Tanka [poem] –– 2:501
Territory –– 6:208-247
There will be other times [poem] –– 1:222
Three hearts and three lions –– 6:76-149
The three-cornered wheel –– 6:360-393
Tiger by the tail –– 7:80-101
Time heals –– 1:412-425
Time lag –– 1:241-265
Time patrol –– 1:129-156
To a tavern wench [poem] –– 1:177
To build a world –– 2:281-323
To Jack Williamson [poem] –– 1:411
To outlive eternity –– 7:203-260
Tomorrow’s children –– 1:37-57
Trader team –– 7:323-391
A tragedy of errors –– 3:319-362
The troublemakers –– 7:166-202
Turning point –– 1:284-294
Un-man –– 5:251-310
Uncleftish beholding [essay] –– 2:436-438
Untitled limerick (dedicated to Isaac Asimov)–– 3:381
Untitled limerick (dedicated to Robert A. Heinlein) [poem] –– 3:164
Untitled limerick [poem] –– 3:95, 116, 28 454, 510
Untitled song (melody obvious) [song] –– 3:187, 220
Upon the occasion of being asked at a court of love to declare that about his lady which pleases him the most [poem] –– 2:113
Upon the occasion of being asked to argue that love and marriage are incompatible [poem] –– 1:186
Veleda speaks [poem] –– 2:223
Warriors from nowhere –– 7:152-165
Welcome –– 1:354-359
“What’ll you give?” –– 3:363-381
Wildcat –– 1:77-100
Wings of victory –– 5:311-323
A world called Maanerek –– 2:231-258
The year of the ransom –– 5:453-503






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