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collection of Hugo- and Nebula-winning stories
I read all but Goat Song, which won a Nebula as well as a Hugo.The last reviewer is clearly talking about a different book, as these stories are all unrelated, and I recall no wild horse (certainly there are nochapters!).Some of these stories may be dated in that they have sincebeen imitated, but they all won Hugos - so judge for yourself.PS-typically those who cannot spell will not appreciate Anderson's work,particularly his recent novels.

BOARING!!!!!!
This is probably the most boaring book I have ever read (I have actually read an encyclopedia). It hurts to read a book this superficial and meanigless. It says a lot that five of the chapters are about an Indian boy saddeling up a wild horse. The only positive comment I can make on this book is: "its not that long" ... Read more

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Tricked into defeating the ruler of a magical city, Gratillonius, a Roman soldier, is stunned when he is made the last King of Ys and directed to fulfill a destiny that legend has foretold will end in betrayal. ... Read more

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"I remember Ys, though I have never seen her"
The King of Ys is a historical fantasy -- it is set in our world just before the fall of the Roman Empire and it mixes in the legend of the mythical city of Ys which was built below sea level on the coast of Brittany. Many of the characters in The King of Ys (Roman emperors, Christian saints, etc) are based on legendary and real historical figures and Poul and Karen Anderson include plenty of footnotes which explain the legend of Ys and the culture and religion of the 5th century.

In Roma Mater, we meet Gaius Valerius Gratillonius, a Roman centurion stationed at Hadrian's Wall. Because of his loyalty to would-be-emperor Magnus Clemens Maximus, the commander of the Roman troops in Britannia, Maximus assigns him to be Rome's prefect in Ys so that Gratillonius can keep it loyal while Maximus goes for the purple. Ys, though part of the Roman empire, has been left to itself for years because it's spooky. According to rumors, Ys is ruled by nine witches who, among other things, control the weather to keep Ys safe from enemies intending to invade by sea. These nine "witches" are the God-chosen wives of the King of Ys who is a nasty tyrant. His nine wives use their powers to ask the Gods to bring them a deliverer -- someone to challenge the king.

And so Gratillonius and his small troop arrive in Ys and soon he finds himself king. Along with inheriting the crown, Gratillonius gets the nine witch queens, too. As he sets out to reform Ys, which has suffered under the former rule, he has a lot of unfamiliar stuff to deal with: the responsibilities of a king, the different culture, a strange land and people, clashes in religious beliefs (he covertly worships Mithras who has been denounced by the newly Christian Roman Empire, and the Ysans worship three pagan gods), and satisfying nine wives who vary greatly in age, beauty, intelligence, and appreciation for men.

At first, Gratillonius balances all of this mostly successfully, and he begins to restore the prosperity of Ys. He is well-intentioned, but he can't help but occasionally go wrong as his own beliefs conflict with his people's and their gods'. One problem is that the Ysan's believe that their gods will destroy Ys by flood if they are not obeyed. So, there is a conflict between the Ysans' expectations of Gratillonius's duties at their religious rites, his desire to keep alive the worship of Mithras, and his admiration for the Christian leaders he knows. The other big problem is that when one of his wives dies, the gods choose the replacement from the priestesses who are all descendents of the previous kings and queens and the gods don't seem to care too much about age, mental ability, or consanguinity. So, not only are there nine wives, but their family tree looks more like an M.C. Escher drawing than a tree, and this kind of behavior isn't congruent with the worship of either Mithras or Christ. (But it does make for some interesting reading.)

The first two books, Roma Mater and Gallicenae, progress rather slowly and there's not much action -- and this is really my only complaint about The King of Ys. But, by the end of Gallicenae, we've seen the ways Gratillonius has had to struggle to obey the Ysan gods, and we can be rather certain about what they're going to throw at him next ... and we know he's going to defy them this time. And, we've seen some plot threads being developed (warriors preparing overseas) that are presumably being carefully set up for use in the next novel.

In the third novel, Dahut, things really come to a head, and the fallout is spectacular. The reader then realizes and appeciates how carefully the Andersons have planned and crafted this work from page one. Well done! The fourth book, Dog and Wolf, deals with the after-effects of the events in book three, develops the characters further as their lives have drastically changed, and comes to a satisfactory conclusion.

Besides being a fascinating and original tale with real historical feel, The King of Ys is beautifully written:
"The armies met south of the River Ruirthech. That was a day when clouds blew like smoke, low above the valley, underneath a sky the hue of lead. Rainshowers rushed out of them, drenched men, washed their wounds and their dead, passed away on the keening wind. All colors were dulled except those of blood and gold. Shouts, horn calls, hoofbeats, footfalls, clamorous wheels, clash and rattle of weapons, were somehow muffled. But blows fell as heavy and sharp as always."

My favorite parts were Gratillonious's internal thoughts about his wives:
"He gazed back. Over the years she had added flesh to flesh, though her frame was quite large enough that as yet she did not appear quite gross. Her features remained good in their heavy fashion and her hair was still a burnished red-brown. It was untidely piled on her head, like the raiment on her body. He had grown used to that....Well, she had her righs, and she was by no means a bad person, and a man ought to shoulder his burdens without whining about them."

And there is poetry -- even whole chapters of poetry!
"Would you know the dog from the wolf? You may look at his paw,
Comparing the claw and the pad; you may measure his stride;
You may handle his coat and his ears; you may study his jaw;
And yet what you seek is not found in his bones or his hide,
For between the Dog and the Wolf there is only the Law."

Near the end of the story, Gratillonious meets a young soldier who is in nearly the same situation he was in when he left Britain 25 years before. Shocked, he looks back and realizes that he's not the same man he was then -- he would make different choices now. Through love and loss, we learn what's important -- that's a good story. ~FanLit.net

Historical Fantasy at its best
The Andersons did a great job melding the myths and legends of Europe into this epic.You will need 2 bookmarks for this book -- it includes a very thourough and interesting appendix of factualhistorical notes about the characters, events, etc.Anyone with an interest in dark ages history or religious history will love it.Much more than just another fantasy epic.

Excellent - not just a fantasy, a psychological portrait
This is a stunning series.It has a wonderfully complex plot that weaves actual late-Roman Empire events with Breton myth, but one of its greatest attributes is the way the characters are brought to life.By the end of the books, what you remember most isn't the plot but the emotional struggleof the main character, Gratillonius, as he loses everything that was everdear to him, and has to go on.The final scene is only a few pages longbut is gut-wrenching because you feel every bit of pain it brings him.Inormally don't enjoy fantasy because many books seem like a pale attempt toimitate Tolkein.This series is completely different but yet has the sameability to pull you into the story until you feel like these eventsactually happened.A word of warning:like the Lord of the Rings, it iswritten in slightly stilted, 'epic' English, which may bother some readers.

High praise!
I usually don't care for fantasy, but this is certainly an exception.The story, like most of Anderson's, starts slow, but by the time you get to Book 3:Dahut, you will see the horrible events coming but will be unableto put the book down.Not only fantasy, but possibly also a classic ofhorror literature.

Huge, Magnificent, and Just a Shade Too Long
_The King of Ys_ enchanted me.It started as one of the very best fantasy series I've ever read.The setting is historical and meticulously detailed, containing a wealth of both magical and mundane details.Heck; the Andersons actually include an extensive collection of endnotes to each chapter detailing the factual elements of their story.In every way, this is a real world.

These people are not modern people stuck into a fantasy setting.They have the values of 4th-and-5th century people, exactly as they should.The gods aren't wimpy, ever-loving, beneficent friends; they're savage and demand obedience brutally.Bad things can happen to good people.

That's how I felt for the first three books, anyway.The fourth is kind of a letdown.The elements above are kept, but... I don't know.I can't go into exactly *why* it's a letdown, because I don't want to spoil the plot, but the story loses cohesion and really falls apart, if you ask me.

However, I still have to give it a "9" because, even though the last quarter was a disappointment, the first three quarters kept me riveted as few books have.Highly reccommended.And heck, you might even find more of worth in the end than I did. ... Read more

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FROM BACK COVER
Discover man's last frontier in these stories from the stars.

* MEMORY: They peeled his mind from his body and sent him to enslave his own planet...

* DAY OF BURNING: An interplanetary Mafia is chosen to save a strange civilization from a supernova...

* BRAKE: Only one thing could stop the ship.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

Where Men are scattered like dust between galaxies!
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Someday. Tomorrow. When Earth fails man and man leaves Earth behind, the awesomeness is waiting Out There. Empty beyond all imagining, vast beyond all reckoning, as deep as Time and twice as cold, The Dark between the stars. Here collected for the first time are the most incredible and terrifying voyages of the acclaimed master of SF adventure. Voyages to the center of a universe dark with terror. And Beyond. Collection of 9 stories: "The Sharing of Flesh," nominated, 1968 Nebula award; winner, 1969 Hugo award, best novelette; "Fortune Hunter;" "Eutopia;" "The Pugilist;" "Night Piece;" "The Voortrekkers;" "Gibralter Falls," a Time Patrol story; "Windmill," and "Call Me Joe," which was voted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. ... Read more

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Classic stories
This collection contains the following classic stories:

The Sharing of Flesh (1968)
Fortune Hunter (1972)
Eutopia (1967 Dangerous Visions)
The Pugilist (1973)
Night Piece (1961)
The Voortrekkers (1974)
Gibraltar Falls (1975)
Windmill (1973)
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A Good Starting Point
If you have never read Poul Anderson's future history stories of the Polesotechnic League, this is a great place to start.By the end of this collection of short stories and short novels you will have become very familiar with some wonderful characters and an enchanting imaginative history. My favorite stories were the last four in this work , "The Season of Forgiveness," "Lodestar," "Wingless on Avalon," and Rescue on Avalon."These specific stories further the relationship between humans and the wonderful winged ones the Ythrians.

FROM BACK COVER
One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van Rijn and the adventurer Falkayne; it rounds and completes the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and it chronicles Mankind's encounters with the great-winged Ythri, who kept record at far Stormgate.

The Earth Book of Stormgate (many stories do not feature Van Rijn) (1978). It collects:

* "Wings of Victory" (1972)
* "The Problem of Pain" (1973)
* "How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson" (1974)
* "Margin of Profit" (1956)
* "Esau" (also known as "Birthright") (1970)
* "The Season of Forgiveness" (1973)
* The Man Who Counts (first appearance of the unedited version of War of the Wing-Men) (1958)
* "A Little Knowledge" (1971)
* "Day of Burning" (also known as "Supernova") (1967)
* "Lodestar (Anderson)" (1973)
* "Wingless" (also known as "Wingless on Avalon") (1973)
* "Rescue on Avalon" (1973)
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Cover: Michael Whelan, 2nd Ace printing (follows 1967 printing). New introduction by the author. Originally published in 1966, in Analog, as 'The Ancient Gods.' A spaceship crashes on an Earth-like planet in the throes of a world war. ... Read more

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A normal man would have lain down and died.But to Hugh Calland the task before him seemed simple enough: organize a revolution by a group of primitives against their telepathic overlords; build with the help of those same primitives a spaceship virtually from scratch; cotact, via that spaceship, a third group of aliens and enlist their aid in returning home across the galactic abyss.At worst it would take a lifetime... and Mary O'Meara was waiting.

A Big World
I found a lot to enjoy in Poul Anderson's WORLD WITHOUT STARS.So much, in fact, that it made me wish I'd explored his books earlier.This is my first exposure to Anderson and I'm very impressed by his abilities as a storyteller and as a world-builder.

At first glance (and looking through the first few chapters), WORLD would appear to be a fairly standard pulp science-fiction novel, with bold humans seeking out new life forms on a strange new world where no human has gone before.But as you get further along, the story never quite goes where it's expected.There are a lot of surprises hidden in here.

The book contains loads of those neat little science fiction ideas that one expects from this type of book: human immortality, telepathic aliens, future cultural changes, etc.But what I really enjoyed in addition to the ideas (and the repercussions they have on life in the future) was Anderson's presentation style.He doesn't simply provide huge information-dumps where every aspect of some space-age development is dryly recited.Rather the clues are dropped quite subtly. On more than one occasion, I flipped back in the book to reread an earlier passage in the light of a later revelation.It's a very rewarding read if you like that sort of thing (as I do).

The plot is relatively straightforward; a group of humans is marooned on a seemingly primitive planet and must contend with strange cultures of aliens who regard these invaders with suspicion (and not for the usual reasons).However, the plot is secondary to the tour-de-force of the character of Hugh Valland who provides the book with its emotional core.He's a fascinating character, and, while bordering on cliché at times, he's entirely memorable and single-handedly brings the book to life.His back-story, slowly revealed through the novel, is what gives the novel its weight.

The back cover blurb of the Ace edition I own gives away far too much of the plot, and I recommend not reading it if you can possibly resist the temptation.This is a short book (the paperback ends at exactly the 150 page mark), but it packs quite a punch.The Valland character and the neat ideas running throughout give this book a depth that belies its size.I'll be looking out for more Poul Anderson books in the future.

A solid work from Anderson's early days
I remember reading this book many years ago, yet many details remain fresh in my memory. This book deals with the middle years of human expansion into our galaxy, at a point in the far future when Humans have become almost immortal. Emphasis on the almost.

Mr. Anderson explores the idea of the limits of immortality, the social effects this would have on both civilizations ("ultimate hospitality",shipwives) and individual relationships (an immortal love), and the way in which a group of immortals view the passage of time. I was awed by the way the immortals viewed disaster much differently than we would.

A lot of ideas are packed into this short book.

Highly recommended.

Excellent Short Novel
Having loved the Harvest of Stars series, this was my first trip back in time to one of Anderson's more common shorter works.I was delighted.It reminded me of an excellent Roald Dahl short story, which is surprising.It is told in the first person, and is a fairly exciting story.What is really remarkable is the writing; the story is so well told.There is even some thought-provoking discovery.All this is and two good characters (one excellent) are fit masterfully into less than 150 pages.The ending is fitting and Anderson pulls it off perfectly - (and be careful not to glance around when flipping to the end to see how many pages there are).I can think of no compelling reason whatsoever not to read this book.For those of you searching, my version is an old Ace.Find it. ... Read more

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A Good Read
This book is another collection of short stories by Poul Anderson, all but one (that being an engaging essay in praise of history as a subject for study) involving time travel in some form.Unlike the "Time Patrol" stories, however, the time travelers in "Past Times" are not connected by any overarching duty, and their time machines are of many different kinds.They (the travelers, that is) have a collection of motives, none of which are to save the world and humanity.One traveler, in fact, tours the whole of cosmic history in an extraordinarily roundabout attempt to get back to where he started.The Danellians, or something like them, do make one appearance in the last story, my favorite.A few jaunts into prehistory are made, one including a fight with a rather disappointingly dim-witted T-rex.We learn that Leonardo da Vinci invented a lot more than anyone knew, and even managed to build it!The misuse of a time machine (the Time Patrol would have had a fit) leads to a kind of time-hopping gang so eclectic that it becomes rather humorous.The idea of some kind of time intertia, which allows people to go into the future easily but not back into the past, is intriguing.I liked this book.Some stories were better than others, but none were duds, and some made me wish they had been developed into books.Recommended for people who enjoy the mere words, as well as the story.Be careful: with some stories (especially "The Nest"), I had to go back and read the first page or so over again once I'd figured out what was going on. ... Read more

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Good, solid, old-fashioned SF
Short stories of science fiction. This book includes

- "Earthman, Beware." A man realizes that he's not human and tries to call his people from the stars.
- "Quixote and the Windmill." The problem of leisure: what if machines do all the work?
- "Gypsy." A nice story about those who don't want to settle down, with a fairly subtle twist at the end.
- "For the Duration." A hero fights against dictatorship.
- "Duel on Syrtis." Martians were a protected species, but a rich man wanted one for a trophy.
- "The Star Beast." A man wants to be a tiger--and in the far future, it's possible. (This story has no relation to Robert Heinlein's book of the same name.) It reminds me, rather, of Andre Norton.
- "The Disintegrating Sky." One of those ironic stories.
- "Among Thieves." Interstellar warfare--well done. ... Read more

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Wonderfully Imaginative, Clever and Consistent
Enjoyed it!This I believe was the first of a series of stories of the Polesotechnic League and introduced the flamboyant character of Nicholas Van Rijn.The story moves nicely with the human-heroes trying to get back to an area of safety (because the food on this world is poisonous.)In order to pull this off they have to work with two waring factions on the planet.Along the way you learn all about the culture and the world these factions live on. There is also a extra lesson on leadership supplied at the end.What I enjoyed the most was Anderson's "World Building." Which was Wonderfully imaginative, clever and consistent. ... Read more

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Now was Eben Holbrook’s chance to play hero—and win his lady love.
Eben Holbrook was not much of a spaceman; he was just a simple nucleonics engineer, not even close to being a scientist. Yet a rare burst of inspiration on his part was what saved them from harm … or maybe just the thought that his dear Ekaterina was in danger.
After having landed on a planet which had the makings of a new Earth, Rurik’s troop discovered that someone else beat them to it. The Zolotoyans—a more highly intelligent race—started an arbitrary attack, which forced an investigation into the reason for their hostility.
Holbrook, Ekaterina and Grushenko were assigned to the task, and set out for Zolotoy. Much to their surprise, the natives did not attack them once they landed; in fact, they seemed altogether indifferent to their guests’ presence, though they were required to stay indefinitely. Holbrook knew that the atmosphere and environment weren’t conducive for humans, and sought immediately to escape, but Grushenko insisted on trying to reason with the Zolotoyans no matter what the cost.

From a Science Fiction Grand Master comes ten exciting stories from the 1950s. Over 100,000 words of the future from the past.

Also includes the stories:OUT OF THE IRON WOMB!, TURNING POINT, THE APPRENTICE WOBBLER, STAR SHIP, THE CORKSCREW OF SPACE, LORD OF A THOUSAND SUNS, THE SOLDIER FROM THE STARS, SWORDSMAN OF LOST TERRA, THE CHAPTER ENDS
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Three science fiction novels with time travel as the theme are included in the Rediscovery Trio: The Winds of Time, The Year of the Quiet Sun, and There Will Be Time. ... Read more

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"The Winds of Time" is worth the price of admission.
Just shows that different people like different stories. "The Year of the Quiet Sun" really didn't grab me personally. "There Will Be Time" was a decent story... but by far my favorite from this book was "The Winds of Time," which I thought was an excellent tale, and for which I give the book 5 stars. Based on my review and that of others, if you like this genre, you're almost certainly going to find at least one of these three that you really like.

a good collection
Plot synopses:

YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN: U.S. government casts a time machine increasingly further into the future to gather political and demographic data, in an attempt to avert a looming civil conflict.

THE WINDS OF TIME: A spacefaring race crashes a ship on earth in prehistoric times and travel to the future by hibernation, waiting for a civilization to arise with sufficient technoogy to repair their spacecraft.

THERE WILL BE TIME: Random humans are born with the ability to move themselves forward and backward through time purely by mental will.They ally and utterly change the world.

All of these are excellent stories, with THERE WILL BE TIME standing out as the best of the three.Anderson beats the stuffing out of the time travel theme, as Alfred Bester did for telepaths in THE DEMOLISHED MAN.Not only do the characters jump between historical periods, they also find interesting uses for jumps of a few minutes forward or backward.Babies time travel with surprising results.THERE WILL BE TIME is very well thought out and worth the price of the book alone.

winds of time
this is one I read more that once. Startling now, how well Oliver portrays both the emptiness and boredom of 1950's middle class life and how well he gets us to fell the sense of loss among human like aliens whose spaceship crashes on Earth..all in the course of a really good story. Don't miss it!

Excellent
Three very different tales, each excellent in its own way.Shows the versatility of the time travel idea.Interesting how gloomy these authors thought the future (in some cases, our day) would be ... Read more

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Adventure in Space
"Satan's World" by Poul Anderson, ©1968, ©1969

Mr. Anderson is an old science fiction writer. This is a good story, more adventure than science, about his Polesotechnic League people. It is quite an adventure. David Falkayn gets thrown into the story and is saved by his boss and cohorts from an ignomious fate. The characters are pretty much stereotypes from mythology and history. I was surprised to realize that Nicholas van Rijn was based on Baron Von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, of Germany. There are aspects that are not appropiate to the Baron, but a lot of Mr. van Rijn's character is similar to what I read the Baron would have felt and done.
There is a lot of daring do well in this story and some rather farfetched incidents that come out well. It is just amazing. Like Prof. Asimov and his pschohistoric saga, "Foundation", this is always peaceful to a fault. Quite a bit far from reality, but it is all science fiction.

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from the back cover of the April 1977 Berkley Medallion edition

A ROGUE PLANET frozen for a billion years by the cold of interstellar space, now boiling with titanic energies.Mysterious beings had kidnapped David Falkhayn, the celebrated explorer of new worlds.Why were they trying to prevent him, at all costs, from exploiting the devil planet's resources?The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the human race, and the sentient beings allied with it.

Good Space Opera - great science topics
Vital part of Anderson's future history (early on, before the empire that Dominic Flandry defended even existed), when Nick van Rijn's traders discovered a rogue world that was approaching a sun close enough to getwarmed up.The notion of brown bodies was new in the 1960's when this waswritten, and the human battles over this freak of nature was as good asanything Anderson has ever written.His desciption of what was going on asthe planet warmed up were great as well. ... Read more

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Not my favorite, but I hope this helps,
from the back cover of the September 1986 edition:

Earth has been destroyed.

Which alien race had committed genocide, killing a planet in the process?
The Kandemir were interested in salvage rights.

The Xo had provided two Earth nations with weapons that could do the job.

The Vorlak, an essentially peaceful race, nevertheless had made a firm treaty with the Russians.

The only surviving humans were the astronauts aboard the spaceships Benjamin Franklin and Europa.Men and women together, they would re-establish mankind - but first they must unmask their enemies and defeat them.

Not his best
Poul Anderson had a strange tendency. When his story could be made into a long novel, he made it small (like this one). On the other hand, when his story could be told in 100 pages (boat of million years) he bloated it into something like 600 pages. This story is of course something poul wrote in 2 months, or rather 1, probably to pay a mortgage or smt. It is a little promising, a little of a pager turner and not much more. The notion of the all male/all female spaceships is dated. The deus ex machina earth physicist who discovers the new physics is a very tired and used to death platitude to overcome SF problems. The aliens are too terrestrial. So, read this only if you don't have to pay for it. But better, skip it for Anderson's best novel Tau Zero.

Adam and Eve on the Grand Scale
Poul Anderson can spin a great yarn no matter what.Here he seems to havefun with the silly Adam and Eve story, and turns out a solid, excitingstory.Earth is destroyed.By chance a space ship with an all male crewand a spaceship with an all female crew are out exploring and escape thedestruction.Their problem is that they don't know the other shipsurvived.They have to look for survivors and find out how to defeat theenemy. Obviously, if each ship doesn't find the other, the human race willdie.Or if they find each other they still have to create a safe place ina hostile universe.With all these problems as background, the result is agood old-fashioned adventure story.And it's extremely refreshing that the women have adventures as well as the men.

A dead earth
The earth has been distoreyed and two survining ships, one with a male crew, one with a female crew, must search for the gilty party. ... Read more

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Delightful short stories from the creator of Lord Darcy
Randall Garrett (1927-1987) was a prolific SF and Fantasy writerin the 50s and 60's. He wrote under a number of pseudonyms and collaborations, including `Robert Randall".

He is most famous for his superb series about Lord Darcy, set in a great alternate universe where Richard the Lion Hearted didn't die from a crossbow bolt, and where Magic (under strict rules) has taken over much of what Technology does today. The series is set in the late 20th century. It's one of the best Fantasy Alternate History series out there.

This collection was done in 1982, edited by Randall's friend and collaborator Robert Silverberg. Each short story has a personal introduction by many of Randall's SF author friends. The intros are worth reading.

The stories are a mixed bag of course, since they include his first (showing great promise, but ...) and other selections. The collection contains two Lord Darcy stories, including one I have never seen collected before- starring Captain Darcy in an alternate WWI.

I heartily recommend the omnibus collection "Lord Darcy" (1983).
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The Sky People have come to enforce their vision of civilization on the People of the Sea, who have created a society based on conservation and the integrity of life. Reissue. ... Read more