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Others have written science fiction on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live onunaging, undyingthrough the centuries and millennia. This story follows them over two thousand years, up to our time and beyondto the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars. A milestone in modern science fiction and a New York Times Not...

Earth lies crushed in the grip of totalitarianism. To save her planet, Kyra Davis is sent on a mission to liberate the last bastion of freedom and to rescue its legendary leader. Her bold adventure will sweep her from Earths rebel enclaves to the decadent court of an exotic lunar colony.

The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threaten the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons, and the Wild Hunt, are poised to overthrow the Realms of Light. Holger Carlsen, a puzzled twentieth-century man mysteriously snatched out of time, finds himself the key figure in the conflict. Arrayed against him are the dragons, giants, and elvin warriors of the armies of Chaos and a beautiful sorceress. On his side he has a vague...

For millions of years, the part of the galaxy containing our solar system has been moving through a vast force field that has been inhibiting certain electromagnetic and electrochemical processes and, thus, certain neurotic functions. When Earth escapes the inhibiting field, synapse speed immediately increases, causing a rise in intelligence, which results in a transfigured humanity reaching for the stars, leaving behind our earth to the less ...

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This volume features one of science fiction's most popular characters. When the human race spreads out among the stars, they take the profit motive with them, and none exemplifies that fact better than Nicholas Van Rijn, interstellar trader and capitalist extraordinaire. Original.

The Polesotechnic League of star traders was prospering, and Nicholas Van Rijn, its most flamboyant member, was prospering most of all as commerce flowed between the stars. But not all League members played fair when trading, nor did some of the non-human races of the galaxy object to dirty tricks. Van Rijn could not be everywhere, and relied on his representatives, foremost among them his young protege, David Falkayn, and the members of David...

When the human race spread out among the stars, they took the profit motive with them, and none exemplified that fact better than Nicholas Van Rijn, interstellar trader and capitalist extraordinaire. He might look like Falstaff and talk in a steady stream of malapropisms, but anybody who might take him for a bumbling buffoon would quickly find themselves taken--to the cleaners! In Nick Van Rijn, Poul Anderson created one of the most memorable ...

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No longer a brash young ensign, Captain Dominic Flandry has risen in rank, but now appreciates fully that the Terran empire is old and tired. And the competing empire of Merseia will give it no peace. TP: Baen.

The ultimate hard science fiction novel' James Blish

This is the third volume in the first complete edition of Anderson's Technic Civilization saga, and it includes a classic novella which appears here in book form for the first time. Original.

Two full length novels and four novellas collected for the first time in volume seven of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization science fiction adventure epic. Sir Dominic Flandry is now an admiral, but takes little joy in his new rank. He sees the rot in the Terran Empire on every hand and knows that the Long Night will inevitably fall upon the galaxy. His consolation is that measures he has taken while doing what he can to postpone the Empire'...

First Time in Mass Market for the Further Adventures of Nicholas Van Rijn, One of the Most Popular Characters in Science Fiction, and His Resourceful Assistant, David Falkayn—Including a Complete Novel, Satan's World, in a Large Volume of Science Fiction Adventure. The Polesotechnic League of star traders was prospering, and Nicholas Van Rijn, its most flamboyant member, was prospering most of all as commerce flowed between the stars. But no...

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Dark forces threaten the world of man. Holger Carlsen, a twentieth-century man snatched out of time, finds himself in a magical realm where a full set of armor awaits him. The shield bears three hearts and three lionsthe only clue to his true identity.

Dark forces threaten the world of man. Holger Carlsen, a twentieth-century man snatched out of time, finds himself in a magical realm where a full set of armor awaits him. The shield bears three hearts and three lionsthe only clue to his true identity.