Russell's ebook Library
After Doomsday
Poul Anderson
The astronauts aboard the spaceships Benjamin Franklin and Europa are determined to find out which of three alien races is responsible for the destruction of the Earth.
Agent of the Terran Empire
Poul Anderson
If it pleased Ruethen of the Long Hand to give a feast and ball at the Crystal Moon for his enemies. He knew they must come. Pride of race had slipped from Terra, while the need to appear well-bred and sophisticated had waxed correspondingly.The fact...
The Boat of A Million Years
Poul Anderson
Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own.Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on, unaging, undying, through the centuries and millenia. We follow t...
The Byworlder
Poul Anderson
Early in the 21st century the world is enjoying an uneasy peace, with a distinct division between the "straight" society and the various fringe groups that go to form the Byworld.Tension grows, however, over the presence of an alien spaceship that is...
The Enemy Stars
Poul Anderson
Four disparate human explorers, marooned in deep space by a terrifying failure of technology, must work together to achieve the impossible and escape a floating prison in this classic of hard science fiction.In the twenty-third century, when humankin...
Ensign Flandry
Poul Anderson
The late Poul Anderson, who died in 2001, was one of the giants of science fiction and winner of 7 Hugo Awards, the field's highest honor.ENSIGN FLANDRY is a classic character in the history of science fiction.After the first flowering of the Terran ...
Fire Time
Poul Anderson
The planet Ishtar has three suns:Bel, the "real" sun, the Life Giver.Ea, the Companion who warms the Ishtaran summers.Anu, the Demon Star.Mostly Anu is so far away that it is just a light in the Ishtaran sky. But once every thousand years it comes cl...
The High Crusade
Poul Anderson
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little...
The People of the Wind
Poul Anderson
Like two giants the old enemies faced each other across the reaches of the galaxy - the Terran Empire and the Ythrian Domain. Terra was a Leviathan, encroaching ever further among the stars, promising peace and prosperity - but at the price of freedo...
The Star Fox
Poul Anderson
Earthmen and Aleriona have met in space and neither side can afford to let the other get too strong. The Aleriona have captured the human outpost, New Europe, and claim that all the inhabitants were killed.The World Federation on Earth seems committe...
Tau Zero
Poul Anderson
For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau...
There Will Be Time
Poul Anderson
Jack Havig seemed like an ordinary man. But since he was a small child he had kept a frightening and exhilarating secret. He was a born time-traveller - a man who could cross the centuries just by willing himself to.Over the years, he had investigate...
