"Operation Afreet," "Operation Salamander," "Operation Incubus" and "Operation Changeling" were collected as Operation Chaos;
Operation Chaos and its sequel, Operation Luna, were collected as Operation Otherworld, which is the middle volume of the trilogy;
the opening and concluding volumes are Three Hearts And Three Lions and A Midsummer Tempest;
the two-part appendix comprises the short stories, "House Rule" and "Losers' Night," which could be collected with A Midsummer Tempest.
However, I still also like my earlier suggestion (see The House Of Sorrows) that these two stories plus another two short stories form a conceptual sequence:
"The House of Sorrows," an alternative history;
"Eutopia," travel between alternative histories;
"House Rule" and "Losers' Night," an inn between alternative histories.
Thus, there could be a fourth volume to be entitled The Old Phoenix And Other Universes.
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Kaor, Paul!
In a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON, I would favor collecting THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS (with the prefatory comments Anderson wrote for the excerpt in GOING FOR INFINITY) as one volume, next the two OPERATION books as another volume, and last A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST with the two Old Phoenix stories as an appendix. Your proposed collection THE OLD PHOENIX AND OTHER UNIVERSES works best as an independent collection of stories by Anderson.
Ad astra! Sean
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