Poul Anderson Reading Order

71 books (1958–2018)

Start with Astounding Science Fiction, November 1958, the first of 71 books in the Anthologies series.

#	Title
1	Astounding Science Fiction, November 1958 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	Swords & Sorcery 1963Buy 🇺🇸
3	Alien Worlds 1964Buy 🇺🇸
4	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1965 July 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	Analog Science Fiction And Fact, March 1967 1967Buy 🇺🇸
6	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1967 1967Buy 🇺🇸
7	Dangerous Visions 1967Buy 🇺🇸
8	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1968 1968Buy 🇺🇸
9	Backdrop of Stars 1968Buy 🇺🇸
10	Nebula Award Stories 4 1968Buy 🇺🇸
11	Tales of Time and Space 1969Buy 🇺🇸
12	Swords Against Tomorrow 1970Buy 🇺🇸
13	Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1971 1971Buy 🇺🇸
14	Never In This World 1971Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Day the Sun Stood Still 1972Buy 🇺🇸
16	More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 1973Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series 1973Buy 🇺🇸
18	The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding 1973Buy 🇺🇸
19	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A 1973Buy 🇺🇸
20	Continuum 1 1974Buy 🇺🇸
21	Continuum 2 1974Buy 🇺🇸
22	Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974Buy 🇺🇸
23	Wondermakers 2 1974Buy 🇺🇸
24	Science Fiction Hall of Fame: The Novellas Book 1 1975Buy 🇺🇸
25	Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium 1975Buy 🇺🇸
26	Beyond Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸
27	A World Named Cleopatra 1977Buy 🇺🇸
28	Study War No More 1977Buy 🇺🇸
29	Destinies: The Paperback Magazine of Science Fiction and Speculative Fact 1979Buy 🇺🇸
30	Other Worlds Volume 1 1979Buy 🇺🇸
31	Get Out of My Sky 1980Buy 🇺🇸
32	Other Worlds Volume 2 1980Buy 🇺🇸
33	The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980Buy 🇺🇸
34	Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor 1982Buy 🇺🇸
35	Mercenaries of Tomorrow 1983Buy 🇺🇸
36	Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction 1984Buy 🇺🇸
37	Berserker Base 1985Buy 🇺🇸
38	Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton 1985Buy 🇺🇸
39	Terrorists of Tomorrow 1985Buy 🇺🇸
40	Barbarians 1986Buy 🇺🇸
41	Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment 1988Buy 🇺🇸
42	Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers 1988Buy 🇺🇸
43	Space Wars 1988Buy 🇺🇸
44	A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling 1989Buy 🇺🇸
45	The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes 1989Buy 🇺🇸
46	Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories 1990Buy 🇺🇸
47	After the King 1991Buy 🇺🇸
48	Power 1991Buy 🇺🇸
49	The Longest Voyage & Slowlightning 1991Buy 🇺🇸
50	The Night Fantastic 1991Buy 🇺🇸
51	Murasaki 1992Buy 🇺🇸
52	The Williamson Effect 1996Buy 🇺🇸
53	The Science Fiction Century 1997Buy 🇺🇸
54	Explorers 2000Buy 🇺🇸
55	Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2001 2001Buy 🇺🇸
56	Meditations on Middle-Earth 2001Buy 🇺🇸
57	Supermen 2002Buy 🇺🇸
58	The Hard SF Renaissance 2003Buy 🇺🇸
59	The World Turned Upside Down 2005Buy 🇺🇸
60	Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 2010Buy 🇺🇸
61	The Fleet 2011Buy 🇺🇸
62	Already Among Us 2012Buy 🇺🇸
63	Science Fiction Gems, Volume Four, Jack Sharkey and Others 2012Buy 🇺🇸
64	Contact: Stories of the New World 2013Buy 🇺🇸
65	Anthropomorphic Aliens 2014Buy 🇺🇸
66	Classic Martian Stories 2014Buy 🇺🇸
67	Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories 2015Buy 🇺🇸
68	The 12th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® 2016Buy 🇺🇸
69	Worst Contact 2016Buy 🇺🇸
70	Space Pioneers 2018Buy 🇺🇸
71	The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X 2018Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2009–2017)

Start with Call Me Joe, the first of 7 books in the Collected Short Works Of Poul Anderson series.

#	Title
1	Call Me Joe 2009Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Queen of Air and Darkness 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Saturn Game 2010Buy 🇺🇸
4	Admiralty 2011Buy 🇺🇸
5	Door to Anywhere 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	A Bicycle Built for Brew 2014Buy 🇺🇸
7	Question and Answer 2017Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1978–2023)

Start with Conan the Swordsman(By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter,Björn Nyberg), the first of 7 books in the Conan (Bantam) series.

#	Title
1	Conan the Swordsman(By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter,Björn Nyberg) 1978Buy 🇺🇸
2	Conan the Liberator(By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
3	Conan: The Road of Kings(By: Karl Edward Wagner) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Sword of Skelos(By: Andrew J. Offutt) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
5	Conan and the Spider God(By: L. Sprague de Camp) 1980Buy 🇺🇸
6	Conan the Rebel 1980Buy 🇺🇸
7	Conan the Barbarian: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation(By: L. Sprague de Camp) 2023Buy 🇺🇸

15 books (1959–2011)

Start with We Claim These Stars, the first of 15 books in the Flandry series.

#	Title
1	We Claim These Stars 1959Buy 🇺🇸
2	Earthman, Go Home! 1960Buy 🇺🇸
3	Mayday Orbit 1961Buy 🇺🇸
4	Agent of the Terran Empire 1965Buy 🇺🇸
5	Flandry of Terra 1965Buy 🇺🇸
6	Ensign Flandry 1966Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Rebel Worlds / Commander Flandry 1969Buy 🇺🇸
8	A Circus of Hells 1970Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Day of Their Return 1973Buy 🇺🇸
10	A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows / Knight Flandry 1975Buy 🇺🇸
11	A Stone In Heaven 1979Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Long Night 1983Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Game of Empire 1985Buy 🇺🇸
14	Tiger by the Tail! 2010Buy 🇺🇸
15	Flandry's Legacy 2011Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (1958–1978)

Start with War of the Wing-Men / The Man Who Counts, the first of 7 books in the Future History Of The Polesotechnic League series.

#	Title
1	War of the Wing-Men / The Man Who Counts 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	Trader to the Stars 1964Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Trouble Twisters 1966Buy 🇺🇸
4	Satan's World 1968Buy 🇺🇸
5	The People of the Wind 1973Buy 🇺🇸
6	Mirkheim 1977Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Earth Book of Stormgate 1978Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1997–1997)

#	Title
1	War of the Gods 1997Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1993–1997)

Start with Harvest of Stars, the first of 4 books in the Harvest Of Stars series.

#	Title
1	Harvest of Stars 1993Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Stars are Also Fire 1994Buy 🇺🇸
3	Harvest the Fire 1995Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Fleet of Stars 1997Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1957–2000)

Start with Earthman's Burden, the first of 4 books in the Hoka series.

#	Title
1	Earthman's Burden 1957Buy 🇺🇸
2	Star Prince Charlie 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	Hoka! 1983Buy 🇺🇸
4	Hokas Pokas! 2000Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1983–1983)

#	Title
1	Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! 1983Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1953–1974)

Start with Three Hearts and Three Lions and read in order.

#	Title
1	Three Hearts and Three Lions 1953Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Midsummer Tempest 1974Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1986–1988)

Start with Roma Mater, the first of 4 books in the King Of Ys series.

#	Title
1	Roma Mater 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Gallicenae 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Dahut 1988Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Dog and the Wolf 1988Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1980–1980)

Start with The Golden Horn and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Golden Horn 1980Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Road of the Sea Horse 1980Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Sign of the Raven 1980Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1968–1983)

Start with The Horn of Time, the first of 4 books in the Maurai series.

#	Title
1	The Horn of Time 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	There Will Be Time 1972Buy 🇺🇸
3	Maurai & Kith 1982Buy 🇺🇸
4	Orion Shall Rise 1983Buy 🇺🇸

9 books (1986–1989)

Start with The Legacy of Lehr(By: Katherine Kurtz), the first of 9 books in the Millenium series.

#	Title
1	The Legacy of Lehr(By: Katherine Kurtz) 1986Buy 🇺🇸
2	A Dark Traveling(By: Roger Zelazny) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
3	Chess With A Dragon(By: David Gerrold) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
4	Project Pendulum(By: Robert Silverberg) 1987Buy 🇺🇸
5	A Place of Silver Silence(By: Ardath Mayhar) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
6	Joe Gosh(By: Tom De Haven) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Forever City(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1988Buy 🇺🇸
8	The Year of the Ransom 1988Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Homecoming(By: Barry B. Longyear) 1989Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1968–1977)

Start with Is There Life on Other Worlds? and read in order.

#	Title
1	Is There Life on Other Worlds? 1968Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Infinite Voyage 1969Buy 🇺🇸
3	Writing & Selling Science Fiction 1977Buy 🇺🇸

2 books (1971–1999)

Start with Operation Chaos and read in order.

#	Title
1	Operation Chaos 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Operation Luna 1999Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1956–1982)

Start with The Peregrine / Star Ways, the first of 6 books in the Psychotechnic League series.

#	Title
1	The Peregrine / Star Ways 1956Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Snows of Ganymede 1958Buy 🇺🇸
3	Virgin Planet 1959Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Psycho-technic League 1981Buy 🇺🇸
5	Cold Victory 1982Buy 🇺🇸
6	Starship 1982Buy 🇺🇸

13 books (1951–2010)

Start with Duel on Syrtis, the first of 13 books in the Short Stories/Novellas series.

#	Title
1	Duel on Syrtis 1951Buy 🇺🇸
2	Inside Earth 1951Buy 🇺🇸
3	Security 1953Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Sensitive Man 1954Buy 🇺🇸
5	Flight to Forever 1955Buy 🇺🇸
6	The Man Who Came Early 1956Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Burning Bridge 1960Buy 🇺🇸
8	Industrial Revolution 1963Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin 1966Buy 🇺🇸
10	Losers' Night 1998Buy 🇺🇸
11	Going for Infinity 2002Buy 🇺🇸
12	Sentiment, Inc. 2010Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Valor of Cappen Varra 2010Buy 🇺🇸

30 books (1953–2020)

Start with Un Man, And Other Novellas, the first of 30 books in the Short Story Collections series.

#	Title
1	Un Man, And Other Novellas 1953Buy 🇺🇸
2	Orbit Unlimited 1961Buy 🇺🇸
3	Strangers From Earth 1961Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Makeshift Rocket 1962Buy 🇺🇸
5	Time and Stars 1964Buy 🇺🇸
6	Beyond the Beyond 1969Buy 🇺🇸
7	Seven Conquests 1969Buy 🇺🇸
8	Tales of the Flying Mountains 1970Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories 1971Buy 🇺🇸
10	The Book of Poul Anderson / The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson 1974Buy 🇺🇸
11	Homebrew 1976Buy 🇺🇸
12	The Best of Poul Anderson 1976Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Night Face and Other Stories 1978Buy 🇺🇸
14	Explorations 1981Buy 🇺🇸
15	Fantasy 1981Buy 🇺🇸
16	The Dark Between Stars 1981Buy 🇺🇸
17	Winners 1981Buy 🇺🇸
18	Conflict 1983Buy 🇺🇸
19	Past Times 1984Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Unicorn Trade(With: Karen Anderson) 1984Buy 🇺🇸
21	Dialogue with Darkness 1985Buy 🇺🇸
22	Space Folk 1989Buy 🇺🇸
23	Kinship with the Stars 1991Buy 🇺🇸
24	Armies of Elfland 1992Buy 🇺🇸
25	All One Universe 1996Buy 🇺🇸
26	To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories 2007Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Valor of Cappen Varra and Two Other Science Fiction Tales 2009Buy 🇺🇸
28	Fragile and Distant Suns 2010Buy 🇺🇸
29	Two Worlds of Poul Anderson: Science Fiction from the Golden Age 2010Buy 🇺🇸
30	Swordsmen from the Stars 2020Buy 🇺🇸

42 books (1952–2003)

Start with Vault of the Ages, the first of 42 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Vault of the Ages 1952Buy 🇺🇸
2	The War of Two Worlds 1953Buy 🇺🇸
3	Brainwave 1954Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Broken Sword 1954Buy 🇺🇸
5	No World of Their Own / The Long Way Home 1955Buy 🇺🇸
6	Planet of No Return / Question and Answer 1956Buy 🇺🇸
7	The Enemy Stars / We Have Fed Our Seas 1958Buy 🇺🇸
8	Rogue Sword 1960Buy 🇺🇸
9	The Golden Slave 1960Buy 🇺🇸
10	The High Crusade 1960Buy 🇺🇸
11	Twilight World 1961Buy 🇺🇸
12	After Doomsday 1962Buy 🇺🇸
13	The Makeshift Rocket 1962Buy 🇺🇸
14	Let the Spacemen Beware! / The Night Face 1963Buy 🇺🇸
15	Shield 1963Buy 🇺🇸
16	Three Worlds To Conquer 1964Buy 🇺🇸
17	The Corridors of Time 1965Buy 🇺🇸
18	The Star Fox 1965Buy 🇺🇸
19	World Without Stars 1967Buy 🇺🇸
20	Tau Zero 1970Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Byworlder 1971Buy 🇺🇸
22	The Dancer From Atlantis 1971Buy 🇺🇸
23	Hrolf Kraki's Saga 1973Buy 🇺🇸
24	Fire Time 1974Buy 🇺🇸
25	Inheritors of Earth(With: Gordon Eklund) 1974Buy 🇺🇸
26	Homeward and Beyond 1975Buy 🇺🇸
27	The Winter of the World 1975Buy 🇺🇸
28	The Avatar 1978Buy 🇺🇸
29	Two Worlds 1978Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Demon of Scattery(With: Mildred Downey Broxon) 1979Buy 🇺🇸
31	The Merman's Children 1979Buy 🇺🇸
32	The Devil's Game 1980Buy 🇺🇸
33	New America 1982Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Gods Laughed 1982Buy 🇺🇸
35	No Truce with Kings & Ship of Shadows(With: Fritz Leiber) 1989Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Boat of a Million Years 1989Buy 🇺🇸
37	Inconstant Star 1990Buy 🇺🇸
38	Alight in the Void 1991Buy 🇺🇸
39	Genesis 1995Buy 🇺🇸
40	Starfarers 1998Buy 🇺🇸
41	Mother of Kings 2001Buy 🇺🇸
42	For Love and Glory 2003Buy 🇺🇸

7 books (2008–2011)

Start with The Van Rijn Method, the first of 7 books in the Technic Civilization Saga series.

#	Title
1	The Van Rijn Method 2008Buy 🇺🇸
2	Rise of the Terran Empire 2009Buy 🇺🇸
3	Star Trader 2009Buy 🇺🇸
4	Young Flandry 2009Buy 🇺🇸
5	Defender of the Terran Empire 2010Buy 🇺🇸
6	Sir Dominic Flandry 2010Buy 🇺🇸
7	Flandry's Legacy 2011Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (2016–2018)

Start with The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI(By: Robert Sheckley) and read in order.

19 books (2013–2013)

Start with Anthology of Sci-Fi V1, the first of 19 books in the The Pulp Writers series.

#	Title
1	Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 2013Buy 🇺🇸
2	Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 2013Buy 🇺🇸
3	Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 2013Buy 🇺🇸
4	Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 2013Buy 🇺🇸
5	Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 2013Buy 🇺🇸
6	Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 2013Buy 🇺🇸
7	Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 2013Buy 🇺🇸
8	Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 2013Buy 🇺🇸
9	Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 2013Buy 🇺🇸
10	Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 2013Buy 🇺🇸
11	Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers 2013Buy 🇺🇸
12	Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 2013Buy 🇺🇸
13	Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 2013Buy 🇺🇸
14	Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 2013Buy 🇺🇸
15	Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 2013Buy 🇺🇸
16	Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 2013Buy 🇺🇸
17	Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 2013Buy 🇺🇸
18	Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 2013Buy 🇺🇸
19	Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 2013Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1955–1990)

Start with Guardians of Time and read in order.

#	Title
1	Guardians of Time 1955Buy 🇺🇸
2	Time Patrolman 1983Buy 🇺🇸
3	The Shield of Time 1990Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1959–1962)

Start with Perish by the Sword and read in order.