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Poul Anderson Alphabetical Title Index

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