Poul Anderson - Libros y biografía

"Five of our worlds are missing". That was the essence of the report that shocked the galactic Nomads at their annual meeting. For each of the mighty star-ships reported vanished was a world of its...

There were three of them - Adzel who measured four and a half metres and resembled a dragon, Chee Lan who was furry, catlike and female, and David Falkayn, a dare-devil rakehell from space.When they learned...

Centuries after a worldwide nuclear war has decimated Earth's population and devastated the land, four opposing pockets of civilisation vie for control of the planet - and of the precious resources that...

The Terran Empire was faced with disaster. A turmoil of unrest on the planet Diomedes was the first spark that threatened to ignite a chain reaction of insurrection. All the attention of the ruling powers...

Another war, the most terrible nuclear disaster in the history of man has scorched and crippled all life on the surface of earth. In a few isolated zones human survival has occurred. Among these groups...

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...

Starfarers is the story of an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy, where answers to mankind's greatest questions await. The saga begins when evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered...

Steve Matuckek Book 2Ginny Greylock and Steve Matuckek are partners on an Earth quite unlike our own. Ginny is a licensed witch and Steve is an engineer and werewolf. He works on a spacecraft out in the...

Exceptionnel best of réunissant les meilleurs récits de science-fiction de l’un des plus considérables auteurs du domaine, soit neuf longues novellas, dont pas moins de six prix Hugo ! Au sommaire de...

Dans le cadre d’un jeu littéraire, l’écrivain américain Keith Laumer avait demandé à quatre de ses confrères de rédiger la suite d’un prologue, à la fin duquel mourait le protagoniste. Poul Anderson le...

Nous ne sommes pas seuls dans l’univers. Les Galactiques sont arrivés à bord de leur gigantesque vaisseau spatial et ont invité la Terre à rejoindre la grande Fédération des planètes. Joe Husting, spécialiste...

Après un voyage de huit ans, l’équipage d’un vaisseau spatial approche enfin des abords de Saturne pour une mission d’exploration des satellites Titan et Japet. Au cours de l’interminable trajet, pour...

L’Amérique, après l’apocalypse. Ce qu’il reste de l’humanité tente, tant bien que mal, de se reconstruire, mais les guerres demeurent inévitables. Jusqu’à ce que soit découverte la présence d’êtres très...

En ce XXIIIe siècle trépidant, l’humanité s’est implantée sur nombre de planètes, se frottant à un univers exotique grouillant de vie. Afin de protéger leurs intérêts, les négociants interstellaires ont...

En 1950, Poul Anderson imagine l'anéantissement de la diversité culturelle par un impérialisme intergalactique. Poul Anderson (1926-2001) il a publié sa première nouvelle en 1947 dans le mythique pulp...

En ce XXIIIe siècle trépidant, l’humanité s’est implantée sur nombre de planètes, se frottant à un univers exotique grouillant de vie. Afin de protéger leurs intérêts, les négociants interstellaires ont...

« Mon nom, c’est Sam Hall, et je vous hais tous autant que vous êtes ! »Thornberg a un problème : son lien de parenté avec un soldat soupçonné de trahison envers sa patrie — des États-Unis sur la pente...

Il est harpiste, et son épouse est morte de la morsure d’un serpent. Pour avoir une chance de la sauver, il lui faut descendre aux Enfers. Des Enfers qui ne sont, dans ce futur lointain, que l’antre d’un...

Afin de mieux étudier le passé, trois scientifiques sont envoyés dans la Rome antique, sous le règne d’Auguste. Les lois du voyage dans le temps imposent que, par compensation, trois Romains parviennent...

Anu, red giant companion-star to Bel and Ea, was relentlessly approaching Ishtar - scorching the land, forcing the barbarians of the North ever southward away from the Inferno. Fire Time was fast confronting...

Their space-yacht, pursued by angry Adderkops thirsting for their blood, has run into serious engine trouble. Picking up the trail of another alien spaceship, they decide to board it and force its crew...

'Imagine that tomorrow neurotic response is so accelerated on this earth that an I.Q. of 500 is commonplace, a moron has the thinking capacity of yesterday's intellectual. Poul Anderson's detailedly plausible...

Dominic Flandry had a great future ahead of him as saviour of the civilised universe. In later years his talent for swift, decisive action would give him an intergalactic reputation. But at the age of...

Archaeologists, studying the past, are handicapped by the fact that relics are usually few and in poor condition. Often, one is not even sure where to look for them. Out of such finds, from tombs, ruined...

Early in the 21st century the world is enjoying an uneasy peace, with a distinct division between the "straight" society and the various fringe groups that go to form the Byworld.Tension grows, however,...

The corridors of time connect the ages to each other. Through them, one can travel backwards and forwards over the history of man. But rival factions have waged war for centuries: the gates onto time...

The Fleet of Stars sees the return of Anson Guthrie, Poul Anderson's iconoclastic hero from Harvest of Stars. Suspecting a conspiracy to suppress humankind's freedom, Guthrie begins a dangerous journey...

In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through...

A dozen years had passed since Mark Fraser and his family had fled to Ganymede, hoping to find the peace and freedom which had eluded them on Earth. Now violence and terror had pursued them to their new-found...

"If it pleased Ruethen of the Long Hand to give a feast and ball at the Crystal Moon for his enemies. He knew they must come. Pride of race had slipped from Terra, while the need to appear well-bred and...