Does it have a stated theme?
Is there an author's introduction to the volume and also to the individual stories?
The Armies Of Elfland is redundant as a collection but includes informative introductions. See:
"The Queen of Air and Darkness" And MIDSUMMER CENTURY
All the introductions need to be preserved in an Appendix to a Complete Works.
I used to regard Poul Anderson as the author of:
many series
many individual novels
many short stories, mainly to be found in collections
- but never regarded the collections themselves as literary units to be taken seriously until now.
Rereading "The Pirate" in Homeward And Beyond, then "Cold Victory" in Seven Conquests, has led us back into the temporal unity of Anderson's Psychotechnic History.
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