Born November 25, 1926, Anderson grew up in Minnesota and Texas. Poul Anderson's first story was published in 1947, while he was attending the University of Minnesota. He continued writing following his graduation in 1948. In 1953 he married Karen Kruse and they lived in the San Francisco area for the rest of his life.
Poul was a former President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention, the winner of three Nebula Awards and seven Hugo Awards. In 1997 he received SFWA's Grandmaster Award and in 2000 he was inducted to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
On July 6, his Genesis won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science-fiction novel of the year 2000.
Over 100 novels and collections of his work were published. In an interview in Locus in 1997, he said the works that he would like to be remembered for are Tau Zero, Midsummer Tempest, The Boat of a Million Years, Three Hearts and Three Lions, The Enemy Stars and Brain Wave.

Poul Anderson passed away of cancer, near midnight on Tuesday July 31, 2001. he was in hospice care at the Anderson home in Orinda, California, following an month's hospitalization. During his last day, he received hundreds of emails and messages of love and support from friends, readers and fellow writers.

The starships out beyond the edge of civilized society had their own code, that of the Nomads. Each of the mighty space ships was a man made world, housing a clan of thousands of space gypsies, voyaging endlessly through the cosmos, pioneering for humanity.  Star Ways is an action-packed saga of these Nomads, and of Joachin of the Starship Peregrine - to whom fell the task of acting as both bait and trap for the deadliest foe the Nomad worlds have ever encountered.

For 300 years The Planet of Women Awaited the coming of Man. Then One Arrives. he is Davis Bertram, a space explorer. But how can he convince them he really is a man? Their legends have built Men into gods. trying to be worthy of the Coming, the women imitate masculine virtues. they are warlike, ambitious, ruthless. Unless Davis can convince them he is a man, they will kill him for blasphemy. But if he does convince them, the Doctor-Priests will kill him to protect their own iron control of the planet.

Born in the radioactive ashes of World War Three the Institute For Applied Psychodynamics had guided Planet earth to a period of plenty that for the first time fulfilled Science's promise. But it is the central irony of human existence that prosperity bears the seeds of its own destruction; this time not just Earth but the entire Solar System would endure the flames of war.

The conflicts of Planet Earth are forgotten now. Even the solar System War with it's Cold Victory is barely a memory. In this the third and final volume of the Psychotechnic League, the scale is immeasurably greater: in Space, in Time..and in violence.

When three Terrans--a space pilot, a planetary queen and an obese tycoon--crash-landed on Diomedes, they realized that the chances for survival were quite slim. The native food was totally poisonous to humans, and the survivors had only six weeks' worth of supplies to get them across thousands of miles of unmapped territory to the one Terran outpost. Their only hope was to enlist the aid of the winged inhabitants of Diomedes, and these barbarian tribes cared only for battle and glory. There was little that could induce them to worry about the lives of three humans.

A Rogue Planet frozen for a billion years by the cold of interstellar space, now boiling w/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.

The gigantic planet of Mirkheim was gone - blasted and vaporised by a supernova. But its core had survived the holocaust, and now, transmuted, it was the only source of certain vital supermetals. david Falkayn, agent and troubleshooter for the powerful Ppolesotechnic League, governors of the terran Empire, had plans for Mirkheim. But the Baburites - an unscrpulous alien race - were one step ahead of him and had claimed the priceless minerals as their own. the coflict could mean only one thing - war, on a titanic scale - unless Falkayn could turn the tide and negotiate a peaceful agreement. but with the Baburites, that was a near impossible task ..

They said it could never work: one was born of Earth, the other of the sky; one has organized itself into increasingly complex governments, the other stays free as the wind. Yet out of such seemingly disparate materials a single nation, forged from the best of both races, has been formed on the planet Avalon. Then the two races go to war, and Avalon is forced to choose sides--or defy both.

Dominic Flandery had a great future ahead of him as savior of the civilized universe. In later years his talent for swift action would be unmatched, his reputation fabulous. But here is at the age of nineteen, fresh out of the Naval Academy, naive.and smack in the midst of the opening battle of an interstellar war.

The Barbarians in their logn ships waiting at the edge of the Galaxy... waiting for the ancient Terran Empire to fall, while two struggle to save it; ex-Adminiral McCormac, forced to rebel against a corrupt Emperor, and Starship Commander Flandry, the brilliant young officer who served the Imperium even as he scorned it. Trapped between them was the woman they both loved, but couldn\'t share: the beautiful Kathryn - whose single word could decide the fate of a billion suns.

Dominic Flandry, Agent of Imperial Terra. His duty, as officially defined: to seek out threats to the Pax Terrestria, and to neutralize them-or, failing that, to call in His Majesty's military forces, who will end them in a more drastic and final way. As defined by Dominic Flandry: to stick his finger in the dike of civilization, to hold off for his lifetime the inevitable coming of the barbarians and the Long Night. To this end he battles gloriously, murders remorselessly, betrays outrageously. His justification? "Supple young women clad in sunlight, blooded horses stamping of the plains of Ilion, smoke curling fragrant about coffee and cognac on Terra"-in a phrase, all the joys and pleasures that, taken together, comprise human civilization.

Captain Sir Dominic Flandry was the ace secret officer of the Terran Empire's Naval Intelligence Corps. And the job needed all the ruthlessness and gulie that Flandry possessed. For the Terran Empire ruled over several thousands of intelligent races out in the vast brilliance of planet-studded space - and each seperate world was continually threatened by attack. Barbaric aliens might at any time join forces and precipitate an inter-galactic war that could destroy even Terra herself. ------ It was up to Flandry to investigate any strange occurences out in space. thwese vital missions often led him into deadly danger. For Flandry could never ber certain what nameless horror might lie waiting for him in the darkness beyond Empire's borders ..

Aeneas is the powder keg of the universe, a frontier planet where rebellion is a way of life--and death. Smarting under the thumb of the Terran Empire after an almost successful war against Imperial rule, the Aeneans are swept up in a fanatical religious movement that promises the return of the Elder Race.

DEATH TO THE EMPIRE ! -- the Terran Empire was faced with disaster. A turmoil of unrest on the planet Diomedes was the first spark that threatened to ingnite a chain reaction of insurrection. All the attention of the ruling powers was centred on Diomedes - but Sir Dominic flandry, bon vivant and interstellar troubleshooter, was one jump ahead. Through a highly unorthodox gambit, Flandry had learned that the diomedean troubles were a red herring, masking the real location of a deadly plan for a galactic civil war that would crush the Empire out of existence. ----- time was runnning out. Only Flandry had the knowledge that could prevent devastation. And when the real trouble began, Flandry was half a universe away ..

Nicholas Van Rijn was smart old bird. He guessed it was inevitable that he and all that the Merchant Princes stood for would tumble into darkness. Dominic Flandry lived in its shadow; heknw that struggle and plot though he might, the ever hungry darkness would have him and his world at last. But for those who came after, that darkness was no mere tragedy, it was reality. It was The Long Night.

Following the advice of his father, young Charlie Stuart travels to a planet 200 light years from Earth and there finds himself involved in a political struggle.

The Interbeing League had been formed to make contact with new intelligent races in the galaxy and offer them membership. But when the League encountered the Hokas, furry creatures strongly resembling the teddy-bears of Earth, the League's agent, Alexander Jones, could have been excused for wishing he had a simpler assignment than making sense out of the Hokas — such as singlehandedly stopping an interstellar war.
Not that the fuzzy aliens were unfriendly. In fact, they loved everything about humans, and adopted various Terran cultures wholesale and in every little detail—but with a bit of confusion about the differences between fact and fiction. So if the Hokas suddenly started acting out the parts in a rip-roaring, shoot-em-up western, or brought to life the London of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a pipe-puffing, deerstalker-wearing Hoka, or suddenly decided to fly the Jolly Roger and lead a life of adventure and piracy on the high seas, matey, that was only to be exptected. And as the Hokas threw themselves wholeheartedly into progressively wilder worlds from Terran history and fiction, Jones could be excused for feeling that his grip on reality was hanging by a single, think increasingly frayed thread...

When a human thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, it's time to get out a straitjacket. But when a Hoka thnks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, you'd better believe it! Particularly since there'll be hundreds of other Hokas around who know for a fact that they're the French army, mon amis, even if they're on another planet light years away from Earth, and the forces they're facing aren't the British but very nasty warlike aliens who by all reason should be expected to make mincemeat out of the Hokas.
But when it comes to Hokas, reason does not compute. These friendly, fuzzy aliens who resemble large Teddy bears have a very vivid imagination and have never quite grasped the difference between human fiction and reality, or (in the present case), between past history and the much later and rather different present. Always bet on the Hokas. Even when a young lad and his Hoka tutor find themselves stuck on a planet where they seem to be scheduled to fulfill an ancient (and lethal) prophecy that neither of them had ever heard of until now, Hokas as usual find that reality is merely optional and the good guys — and bears — always win, quicker than you can say Hokas Pokas!

In the year 1532, Francisco Pisarro and his band of conquistadors have captured the Inca Atahualpa. In the year 1987, a young American woman takes a day of relax ation after working all summer as a guide in the Galapagos Islands. In the year 1885, a wife in London worries and wonders whether she will ever see her husband again. In the year 1610, outlaws plan t o steal the ransom of Atahualpa. In the peculiar world of the Time Patrol, all these events are ti ed together, and it is Manse Everard's job to sort them out and keep them from changing history.

As agents of the Time Patrol dedicated to preserving the integrity of the past, Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly find themselves involved in ever-widening circles of intrigue that endanger the fabric of time itself.

Transported into a magical alternate world of dragons, witches, and fairy-folk, skeptical engineer Holger Carlsen finds himself at the center of a looming conflict in which he is inexplicably a key figure. He will meet an ancient witch who means him no good and a suspicious dwarf who will become a close ally. He will fight for Order against the gathering forces of Chaos. And he will learn who he really is..

The senile gods of Ys have decided that Dahut, daughter of the King of YS, must become Queen of the Christ-cursed city before her father dies. The King would rather kill himself than allow this evil pact, but the gods need him too much to allow him to do that.

Just as England remembers King Arthur, so do the people of Brittany recall a great and noble leader who held back the barbarian darkness for a time. His name was Gratillonius, the King of Ys.

In the near-future, Earth will be overrun by a totalitarian regime that will all but force people off-world. The last hope lies in a space pilot and the computer-stored personality of the leader of the one non-government-controlled corporation.

Harvest the Fire is the story of politics and poetry: of a poet, Jesse Nicol, who aspires to great work in an era when human literary greatness is apparently all in the past, who travels to the Moon and falls in love with a beautiful revolutionary, Falaire--a woman determined to escape from the care of machines. For the machines are now the masters of humanity, and the great work of Falaire is freedom, which must be stolen from the machines.

The staid, somber people of Earth are not only dependent on technology, they are all ruled by machine intelligence. Suspecting a conspiracy to supress humankind's last vestiges of freedom, Guthrie begins a dangerous journey across the realm of the comets, the astroids, and the stars themselves -- willing to risk his life to preserve humanity's ability to roam the universe.

Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow them through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond-to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars.

The colonists' ship sped toward the far star--they were free at last from the tyrannical government which had opressed them from birth. Then came the message from Earth--'Return at once--new government--guarantee your freedom--at home! ' Was this a reprieve from death--for the perilous ordeal of colonizing an unknown planet would cost many lives--or a trick?

The freedom-minded Jeffersonians chose voluntary exile to a distant planet. Now now two hundred years later, the World State that had let them go has decided that the cosmos is not big enough for both it and a free people.

After Armageddon the People of the Sea created a new kind of civilization. one based on the integrity of Life and the moral as well as pragmatic necessity of conservation. But the Sky People live by a different vision, and they have come to enforce it.

After nuclear weapons ravaged the Earth, only Skyholm, a huge solar-powered station floating above Europe, remains in possession of high technology. But as Skyholm is seized by a religious faction, a young noble escapes to the ground below and joins a group who conspire to use the power of the atom, outlawed for centuries, to regain the lost heritage of space flight.

In a war waged against Black Magic, the fact that Steve is a werewolf and his wife is a highly skilled witch is not unusual. But their adventures prove very unusual, even for their world, when they are given the task of neutralizing an enemy's ultimate weapon--the world's most powerful demon.

Ginny Greylock and Steven Matuchek are partners on an Earth quite unlike our own. For starters, Ginny is a licensed witch and Steve is an engineer and werewolf. Steve moonlights by working on a spacecraft in the Arizona desert, a project which soon discovers that there is life on the moon.

Conan, The name has inspired generations, one that resounds through time immemorial. Yet it all began with a handful of stories from Robert E. Howard. In the decades since, there have been feature films, television and comic book series, and numerous spin-off novels. In 1979, Poul Anderson—winner of a staggering eight Hugo and three Nebula Awards—wrote what is regarded as one of the finest adventures in the canon of Conan:
Conan the Rebel.
Conan the barbarian and Belit, his raven-haired beauty, lead a band of savage pirates striving to free Belit’s people from the iron grip of an evil reptile god and its cruel minions. Striking at the heart of tyranny, Conan must break the chains of oppression before eternal darkness claims them all.