Time And Stars

by Poul Anderson

Some spine and cover creasing. Good solid clean copy, firm biding. Second printing. Cover art by Jack Farragasso

Genres: Science Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Anthologies, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Time Travel

Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Pseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.

Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.

Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3]

Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.


Series:
* Time Patrol
* Psychotechnic League
* Trygve Yamamura
* Harvest of Stars
* King of Ys
* Last Viking
* Hoka
* Future history of the Polesotechnic League
* Flandry

Reviews

[Alien · Rating 3 out of 5]

4 längere Stories bzw. Novellen, von den mir eine gar nicht gefiel ("Die Zentrale der Esper") und 2 ziemlich gut:
"Wendepunkt Kassiopeia" bringt eine originelle Variante zur Frage "wie sollen wir reagieren, wenn wir eine überlegene ET-Rasse antreffen?"
"Die Erde gehört uns nicht" ist eine hübsch geschriebene Geschichte zum Thema Maschinen-Evolution.

Eine komplette Aufzählung:
Die Zentrale der Esper (No Truce with Kings / 1963), Wendepunkt Kassiopeia (Turning Point / 1963), Die Erde gehört uns nicht (Epilogue / 1962), Eva mal vier (Eve Times Four / 1960).
Wie üblich fehlen mal wieder Stories des Originals: Escape from Orbit / 1962, The Critique of Impure Reason (1962)

[Manuel Alfonseca · Rating 3 out of 5]

ENGLISH: A collection of five stories by Anderson published in 1962 and 1963. The best, by far, is "Turning point." "No truce with kings" (the longest) and "Epilogue" are also quite good. The other two, I liked less.

ESPAÑOL: Colección de cinco cuentos de Anderson publicados en 1962 y 1963. El mejor, con mucho, es "Turning point". También están bastante bien "No truce with kings" (la más larga) y "Epilogue". Los otros dos me gustaron menos.

[treva · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mildly amusing, some lovely description in a few places. I did appreciate the final story; always nice to see a 60s era lady actually stand up for herself and use her brain, especially in a genre like science fiction where ladies are usually ornamental.

[Joshua Tepley · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Epilogue" is a hidden gem.

[Raj · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an excellent collection of short stories, including the Hugo-award winning No Truce with Kings, about a future feudalistic America at war with itself and dealing with an emergence of "telepathic powers" amongst some people.

The other highlight of the book was Epilogue which in some ways foreshadows Tau Zero in that a malfunctioning spaceship is knocked far into the future, but in this case returns to Earth to find it occupied by a machine civilisation.

This collection shows that Anderson is a great writer, and I look forward to reading more of his work.

[Ian Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

“Time & Stars” by Poul Anderson (1964) Science Fiction Book Club Edition

Overall Rating 6/10 – Spaced Out

Plot
Five short stories of the science fiction genre

Writing Style
Rich and full prose with attention to detail including gravity and nuance. Uncomplicated structure but difficult to visualise because of the attention to detail. Very 1940/50’s with little or no sympathy for modern writing styles.

Point of View/Voice
Written in the 3rd Person / Past Tense (standard convention)

Critique
Unfortunately, I abandoned this book after one and a half short stories for a couple of reasons. The first (and main) reason was that I was unable to watch the film play out in my head as I read the words. It’s not that I didn’t like the style of writing (I did) but, rather, that the complexity was too great to allow the “reading” and the “watching” to occur at the same time. The second reason was that the plot(s) were a little tedious with much of the story (in both cases I read) running itself around in circles and not “getting on with it”. This second reason seems to me to be very typical of the early 20th Century writings.

Nevertheless, I did enjoy reading Poul Anderson and will certainly return to him when my mindset is focused on receiving his particular style.

[A.L. Sirois · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like Poul Anderson, having first encountered his work (as far as I can remember now) through one of the stories in this anthology, Epilogue. The thing has stuck with me all my life, though I didn't have a copy and had to ask around on Facebook to see if anyone could remember a story about space travelers who return to a far future earth inhabited by living machines. Well, several people knew what that story was, and pointed me at this anthology -- and I grabbed it off of eBay. These stories aren't prime Anderson, but they're good, and that makes them better than what most other sf writers of his time were putting out. So I recommend it with reservations... if you like older stuff, this is well worth your while.

[Freder · Rating 2 out of 5]

Anderson is one of those writers that I feel guilty about Not Liking. I feel that I SHOULD appreciate his work more than I do. But try as I might, these stories -- although well-crafted -- were just Not My Cup of Fur. "No Truce With Kings" gets the show off to a bad start, as it's a military story: two strikes right there. All of the stories are longer than they need to be, and all are written from the off-putting omniscient viewpoint. I feel that Anderson writes straight from the intellect, and cares nothing at all of atmosphere. His priorities as a writer and mine as a reader seem to be diametrically opposed. Your mileage may vary.

[Joachim Boaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75/5 (collated rating: Good)

Time and Stars (1964) is a wonderful collection of short works by one of the greats, Poul Anderson. Anderson is best known for hard science fiction novels such as Tau Zero (1970) as well as fast paced pulp adventures exemplified by his Dominic Flandry (à la James Bond in space) sequence which he started in the 50s.

Only one of the six shorts in the collection [...]

Full review: https://sciencefictionruminations.com...

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very strong collection of short stories. They are quite varied, mostly hard scifi, one fantasy story. A few are more silly than the others but still very much worth reading. All previously published in magazines ca. 60 years ago, they have aged surprisingly little. I'm a long time fan of Poul Anderson and this book made me again realize how good he is.

[Adam · Rating 4 out of 5]

A 'new' author for me - just came across this in a second-hand book shop. An entertaining set of short stories. Next time I'm there I shall definitely but another couple of titles...

[Bent Andreassen · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars. A collection of 6 short stories/novelettes.
Two very good are:
No Truce with Kings (Hugo Award best short story)
Epilogue

[Marsha Valance · Rating 3 out of 5]

An engrossing collection of sf short stories. A Science Fiction Book Club selection.

[Perry Middlemiss · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of stories from novella length down to short story. It contains the Hugo-winner “No Truce With Kings”, plus 5 other stories. Competent without being anything startling. R: 3.3/5.0

[Jesse · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Epilogue" was great, so dark, but a wonderful nail biting page turner for sure

[Annise · Rating 2 out of 5]

Overall, I wasn't greatly impressed with this little book of short stories, but one or two did stand out. The first story, No Truce With Kings, was a little heavy-handed in its messages, while Escape from Orbit didn't seem to really know which of two stories it was telling, and consequently failed at both. Epilogue was a little too long, but had some interesting ideas about two types of life and intelligence that can't really comprehend each other. The Critique of Impure Reason, started out sounding a little uppity, but warmed up into an amusing little story about trying to encourage a free-thinking robot to do what it was designed for when it doesn't want to. My personal favourite was Turning Point, which provided a nice little thought experiment around discovering an intelligence that could surpass our own. Mostly, the ideas read like snippets of ideas that he couldn't quite work into novels. I've never read any other Poul Anderson, so I'd be interested to see how he handles a longer work, but I probably wouldn't go out of my way to read any more of his short stories.

[SciFiOne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grade B

[Foxtower · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good!

[Peter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Anderson is always a good read

[colleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

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