The Best of Poul Anderson

Contents:

• Recollecting Anderson (essay by Barry N. Malzberg)
• Introduction by Poul Anderson
• The Longest Voyage (1960)
  
• The Barbarian (1956)
  
• The Last of the Deliverers (1958)
  
• My Object All Sublime (1961)
  
• Sam Hall (1953)
  
• Kyrie (1968)
  
• The Fatal Fulfillment (1970)
  
• Hiding Place (1961)
  
• The Sky People (1959)
  

IN A WORLD JUST BEYOND TOMORROW...

A traveler from the stars becomes the unwilling oracle for a Stone-Age people and the pawn in a primitive power struggle.

A disaffected sociologist discovers that each of his dreams for the perfect society contains the seed of a nightmare.

The War of Judgment has thrown mankind back into the Dark Ages, where the blue-eyed marauding Sky People and their victims face off in a struggle made desperate by the survival of twentieth-century technology.

Time travel provides one society with the perfect way to punish its criminals.