Tuesday, 14 April 2026

Poul Anderson's Series

Does anyone know how many series Poul Anderson wrote?

The Wikipedia Poul Anderson bibliography lists:

Hoka (with Gordon R. Dickson)

The Psychotechnic League (which I call the Psychotechnic History)

Tomorrow's Children, collected as Twilight World

The Technic History

Time Patrol

History of Rustum

Maurai and Kith (giving the wrong impression that these are one series)

Harvest of Stars

The King of Ys (with Karen Anderson)

Operation Otherworld

The Last Viking

The Trygve Yamamura Trilogy (not named as such)

This bibliography lists Tales Of The Flying Mountains as a collection although not as a collected series.

It does not mention:

connections between Three Hearts And Three Lions, A Midsummer Tempest, Operation Otherworld and two "Old Phoenix" short stories;

the three Wing Alak stories;

a few other connections between works.

For earlier posts on series, see here.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, if you create a world/universe, you're probably going to put more than one story in it.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Thank you, Anonymous.

Anonymous said...

Damn, that was me, Steve Stirling.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

I did think that it was Stirlingesque.

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

One thing I've noticed, reading your works, is that you prefer novel length "stories" in your series. I mean you apparently favor book length stories, while Anderson often wrote both short stories and novels set in series with the same background. It's relatively rare for you to write similarly--one exception being how "Shikari in Galveston" was set in the same time-line as THE PESHAWAR LANCERS.

Ad astra! Sean