Violence

In Poul Anderson's Technic History:

"Lodestar" begins as natives of the planet, Tametha, attack Polesotechnic League merchants, including the familiar trader team;

in "A Tragedy of Errors," Roan Tom's spaceship is almost immediately attacked when it arrives on the planet, Nike;

"The Sharing of Flesh" begins with the murder of an extra-planetary visitor by a dweller on the planet, Lokon.

Does Poul Anderson write about violence for the sake of violence? No, although we might get that impression if we read no further. In each case, the violence is an expression of a problem and the ensuing story is about finding the solution to that problem.

Fiction is easier to cope with than life. We are not attacked or killed while reading these stories...