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Poul Anderson Books in Order

Find every Poul Anderson book in order, including standalone titles and complete series reading orders with publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 197 books / 24 series

American author Poul Anderson, best known for the science fiction series *Tales of the Flying Mountains* and the *Technic Civilization* saga, won seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. This page provides the Poul Anderson books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

All Poul Anderson Books in Chronological Order

1951 Duel on Syrtis POoSS / 1 Buy
1951 Inside Earth POoSS / 2 Buy
1952 Vault of the Ages POoSN / 1 Buy
1953 Un Man, And Other Novellas POoSSC / 1 Buy
1953 Three Hearts and Three Lions POoHDB / 1 Buy
1953 The War of Two Worlds POoSN / 2 Buy
1953 Security POoSS / 3 Buy
1954 Brainwave POoSN / 3 Buy
1954 The Sensitive Man POoSS / 4 Buy
1954 The Broken Sword POoSN / 4 Buy
1955 Guardians of Time POoTPB / 1 Buy
1955 No World of Their Own / The Long Way Home POoSN / 5 Buy
1955 Flight to Forever POoSS / 5 Buy
1956 The Peregrine / Star Ways POoPLB / 1 Buy
1956 Planet of No Return / Question and Answer POoSN / 6 Buy
1956 The Man Who Came Early POoSS / 6 Buy
1957 Earthman's Burden POoHB / 1 Buy
1958 War of the Wing-Men / The Man Who Counts POoFHOTPLB / 1 Buy
1958 The Snows of Ganymede POoPLB / 2 Buy
1958 The Enemy Stars / We Have Fed Our Seas POoSN / 7 Buy
1959 We Claim These Stars POoFB / 1 Buy
1959 Perish by the Sword POoTYB / 1 Buy
1959 Virgin Planet POoPLB / 3 Buy
1960 Murder in Black Letter POoTYB / 2 Buy
1960 Earthman, Go Home! POoFB / 2 Buy
1960 The Burning Bridge POoSS / 7 Buy
1960 Rogue Sword POoSN / 8 Buy
1960 The High Crusade POoSN / 9 Buy
1960 The Golden Slave POoSN / 10 Buy
1961 Orbit Unlimited POoSSC / 2 Buy
1961 Strangers From Earth POoSSC / 3 Buy
1961 Mayday Orbit POoFB / 3 Buy
1961 Twilight World POoSN / 11 Buy
1962 Murder Bound POoTYB / 3 Buy
1962 The Makeshift Rocket POoSN / 12 Buy
1962 After Doomsday POoSN / 13 Buy
1963 Industrial Revolution POoSS / 8 Buy
1963 Shield POoSN / 14 Buy
1963 Let the Spacemen Beware! / The Night Face POoSN / 15 Buy
1964 Trader to the Stars POoFHOTPLB / 2 Buy
1964 Time and Stars POoSSC / 5 Buy
1964 Three Worlds To Conquer POoSN / 16 Buy
1965 Agent of the Terran Empire POoFB / 4 Buy
1965 Flandry of Terra POoFB / 5 Buy
1965 The Star Fox POoSN / 17 Buy
1965 The Corridors of Time POoSN / 18 Buy
1966 The Trouble Twisters POoFHOTPLB / 3 Buy
1966 Ensign Flandry POoFB / 6 Buy
1966 The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin POoSS / 9 Buy
1967 World Without Stars POoSN / 19 Buy
1968 Is There Life on Other Worlds? POoNB / 1 Buy
1968 The Horn of Time POoMB / 1 Buy
1968 Satan's World POoFHOTPLB / 4 Buy
1969 The Infinite Voyage POoNB / 2 Buy
1969 Seven Conquests POoSSC / 6 Buy
1969 The Rebel Worlds / Commander Flandry POoFB / 7 Buy
1969 Beyond the Beyond POoSSC / 7 Buy
1970 A Circus of Hells POoFB / 8 Buy
1970 Tales of the Flying Mountains POoSSC / 8 Buy
1970 Tau Zero POoSN / 20 Buy
1971 Operation Chaos POoOOB / 1 Buy
1971 The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories POoSSC / 9 Buy
1971 The Dancer From Atlantis POoSN / 21 Buy
1971 The Byworlder POoSN / 22 Buy
1972 There Will Be Time POoMB / 2 Buy
1973 The People of the Wind POoFHOTPLB / 5 Buy
1973 The Day of Their Return POoFB / 9 Buy
1973 Hrolf Kraki's Saga POoSN / 23 Buy
1974 A Midsummer Tempest POoHDB / 2 Buy
1974 The Book of Poul Anderson / The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson POoSSC / 10 Buy
1974 Inheritors of Earth(With: Gordon Eklund) POoSN / 24 Buy
1974 Fire Time POoSN / 25 Buy
1975 Star Prince Charlie POoHB / 2 Buy
1975 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows / Knight Flandry POoFB / 10 Buy
1975 Homeward and Beyond POoSN / 26 Buy
1975 The Winter of the World POoSN / 27 Buy
1976 Homebrew POoSSC / 11 Buy
1976 The Best of Poul Anderson POoSSC / 12 Buy
1977 Writing & Selling Science Fiction POoNB / 3 Buy
1977 Mirkheim POoFHOTPLB / 6 Buy
1978 Conan the Swordsman(By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter,Bj’rn Nyberg) POoC(B / 1 Buy
1978 The Earth Book of Stormgate POoFHOTPLB / 7 Buy
1978 The Night Face and Other Stories POoSSC / 13 Buy
1978 Two Worlds POoSN / 28 Buy
1978 The Avatar POoSN / 29 Buy
1979 Conan the Liberator(By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter) POoC(B / 2 Buy
1979 Conan: The Road of Kings(By: Karl Edward Wagner) POoC(B / 3 Buy
1979 The Sword of Skelos(By: Andrew J. Offutt) POoC(B / 4 Buy
1979 A Stone In Heaven POoFB / 11 Buy
1979 The Merman's Children POoSN / 30 Buy
1979 The Demon of Scattery(With: Mildred Downey Broxon) POoSN / 31 Buy
1980 The Golden Horn POoLVB / 1 Buy
1980 The Road of the Sea Horse POoLVB / 2 Buy
1980 The Sign of the Raven POoLVB / 3 Buy
1980 Conan and the Spider God(By: L. Sprague de Camp) POoC(B / 5 Buy
1980 Conan the Rebel POoC(B / 6 Buy
1980 The Devil's Game POoSN / 32 Buy
1981 The Psycho-technic League POoPLB / 4 Buy
1981 Fantasy POoSSC / 14 Buy
1981 Explorations POoSSC / 15 Buy
1981 The Dark Between Stars POoSSC / 16 Buy
1981 Winners POoSSC / 17 Buy
1982 Maurai & Kith POoMB / 3 Buy
1982 Cold Victory POoPLB / 5 Buy
1982 Starship POoPLB / 6 Buy
1982 The Gods Laughed POoSN / 33 Buy
1982 New America POoSN / 34 Buy
1983 Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! POoHC / 1 Buy
1983 Time Patrolman POoTPB / 2 Buy
1983 Hoka! POoHB / 3 Buy
1983 Orion Shall Rise POoMB / 4 Buy
1983 The Long Night POoFB / 12 Buy
1983 Conflict POoSSC / 18 Buy
1984 Past Times POoSSC / 19 Buy
1984 The Unicorn Trade(With: Karen Anderson) POoSSC / 20 Buy
1985 The Game of Empire POoFB / 13 Buy
1985 Dialogue with Darkness POoSSC / 21 Buy
1986 Roma Mater POoKOYB / 1 Buy
1986 The Legacy of Lehr(By: Katherine Kurtz) POoMB / 1 Buy
1987 Chess With A Dragon(By: David Gerrold) POoMB / 2 Buy
1987 The Gallicenae POoKOYB / 2 Buy
1987 A Dark Traveling(By: Roger Zelazny) POoMB / 3 Buy
1987 Project Pendulum(By: Robert Silverberg) POoMB / 4 Buy
1988 Dahut POoKOYB / 3 Buy
1988 The Dog and the Wolf POoKOYB / 4 Buy
1988 The Forever City(By: Richard A. Lupoff) POoMB / 5 Buy
1988 The Year of the Ransom POoMB / 6 Buy
1988 Joe Gosh(By: Tom De Haven) POoMB / 7 Buy
1988 A Place of Silver Silence(By: Ardath Mayhar) POoMB / 8 Buy
1989 The Homecoming(By: Barry B. Longyear) POoMB / 9 Buy
1989 Space Folk POoSSC / 22 Buy
1989 No Truce with Kings & Ship of Shadows(With: Fritz Leiber) POoSN / 35 Buy
1989 The Boat of a Million Years POoSN / 36 Buy
1990 The Shield of Time POoTPB / 3 Buy
1990 Inconstant Star POoSN / 37 Buy
1991 Kinship with the Stars POoSSC / 23 Buy
1991 Alight in the Void POoSN / 38 Buy
1992 Armies of Elfland POoSSC / 24 Buy
1993 Harvest of Stars POoHOSB / 1 Buy
1994 The Stars are Also Fire POoHOSB / 2 Buy
1995 Harvest the Fire POoHOSB / 3 Buy
1995 Genesis POoSN / 39 Buy
1996 All One Universe POoSSC / 25 Buy
1997 War of the Gods POoHB / 1 Buy
1997 The Fleet of Stars POoHOSB / 4 Buy
1998 Losers' Night POoSS / 10 Buy
1998 Starfarers POoSN / 40 Buy
1999 Operation Luna POoOOB / 2 Buy
2000 Hokas Pokas! POoHB / 4 Buy
2001 Mother of Kings POoSN / 41 Buy
2002 Going for Infinity POoSS / 11 Buy
2003 For Love and Glory POoSN / 42 Buy
2007 To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories POoSSC / 26 Buy
2008 The Van Rijn Method POoTCSB / 1 Buy
2009 Call Me Joe POoCSWOPAB / 1 Buy
2009 Star Trader POoTCSB / 2 Buy
2009 The Queen of Air and Darkness POoCSWOPAB / 2 Buy
2009 Rise of the Terran Empire POoTCSB / 3 Buy
2009 Young Flandry POoTCSB / 4 Buy
2009 The Valor of Cappen Varra and Two Other Science Fiction Tales POoSSC / 27 Buy
2010 The Saturn Game POoCSWOPAB / 3 Buy
2010 Defender of the Terran Empire POoTCSB / 5 Buy
2010 Sir Dominic Flandry POoTCSB / 6 Buy
2010 The Valor of Cappen Varra POoSS / 12 Buy
2010 Sentiment, Inc. POoSS / 13 Buy
2010 Tiger by the Tail! POoFB / 14 Buy
2010 Two Worlds of Poul Anderson: Science Fiction from the Golden Age POoSSC / 28 Buy
2010 Fragile and Distant Suns POoSSC / 29 Buy
2011 Admiralty POoCSWOPAB / 4 Buy
2011 Flandry's Legacy POoTCSB / 7 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 POoTPWB / 1 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 POoTPWB / 2 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 POoTPWB / 3 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 POoTPWB / 4 Buy
2013 Door to Anywhere POoCSWOPAB / 5 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 POoTPWB / 5 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 POoTPWB / 6 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 POoTPWB / 7 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 POoTPWB / 8 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 POoTPWB / 9 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 POoTPWB / 10 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 POoTPWB / 11 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 POoTPWB / 12 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 POoTPWB / 13 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 POoTPWB / 14 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 POoTPWB / 15 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 POoTPWB / 16 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 POoTPWB / 17 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers POoTPWB / 18 Buy
2013 Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 POoTPWB / 19 Buy
2014 A Bicycle Built for Brew POoCSWOPAB / 6 Buy
2016 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI(By: Robert Sheckley) POoTGAoSFB / 1 Buy
2017 Question and Answer POoCSWOPAB / 7 Buy
2018 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV(By: Robert Sheckley) POoTGAoSFB / 2 Buy
2018 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X(With: James Blish,Clifford D. Simak,Fritz Leiber,Harry Harrison,Roger Dee,Anthony Gilmore,Robert Hoskins,Richard Rein Smith) POoTGAoSFB / 3 Buy
2020 Swordsmen from the Stars POoSSC / 30 Buy
2023 Conan the Barbarian: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation(By: L. Sprague de Camp) POoC(B / 7 Buy

Poul Anderson Book Series Reading Orders / browse all ->

01 Call Me Joe 2009 Buy
02 The Queen of Air and Darkness 2009 Buy
03 The Saturn Game 2010 Buy
04 Admiralty 2011 Buy
05 Door to Anywhere 2013 Buy
06 A Bicycle Built for Brew 2014 Buy
07 Question and Answer 2017 Buy
Maurai Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1968-1983
01 The Horn of Time 1968 Buy
02 There Will Be Time 1972 Buy
03 Maurai & Kith 1982 Buy
04 Orion Shall Rise 1983 Buy
01 Duel on Syrtis 1951 Buy
02 Inside Earth 1951 Buy
03 Security 1953 Buy
04 The Sensitive Man 1954 Buy
05 Flight to Forever 1955 Buy
06 The Man Who Came Early 1956 Buy
07 The Burning Bridge 1960 Buy
08 Industrial Revolution 1963 Buy
09 The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin 1966 Buy
10 Losers' Night 1998 Buy
11 Going for Infinity 2002 Buy
12 The Valor of Cappen Varra 2010 Buy
13 Sentiment, Inc. 2010 Buy
01 The Golden Horn 1980 Buy
02 The Road of the Sea Horse 1980 Buy
03 The Sign of the Raven 1980 Buy
King Of Ys Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1986-1988
01 Roma Mater 1986 Buy
02 The Gallicenae 1987 Buy
03 Dahut 1988 Buy
04 The Dog and the Wolf 1988 Buy
01 Operation Chaos 1971 Buy
02 Operation Luna 1999 Buy
01 The Peregrine / Star Ways 1956 Buy
02 The Snows of Ganymede 1958 Buy
03 Virgin Planet 1959 Buy
04 The Psycho-technic League 1981 Buy
05 Cold Victory 1982 Buy
06 Starship 1982 Buy
Standalone Books in Reading Order 42 books / 1952-2003
01 Vault of the Ages 1952 Buy
02 The War of Two Worlds 1953 Buy
03 Brainwave 1954 Buy
04 The Broken Sword 1954 Buy
05 No World of Their Own / The Long Way Home 1955 Buy
06 Planet of No Return / Question and Answer 1956 Buy
07 The Enemy Stars / We Have Fed Our Seas 1958 Buy
08 Rogue Sword 1960 Buy
09 The High Crusade 1960 Buy
10 The Golden Slave 1960 Buy
11 Twilight World 1961 Buy
12 The Makeshift Rocket 1962 Buy
13 After Doomsday 1962 Buy
14 Shield 1963 Buy
15 Let the Spacemen Beware! / The Night Face 1963 Buy
16 Three Worlds To Conquer 1964 Buy
17 The Star Fox 1965 Buy
18 The Corridors of Time 1965 Buy
19 World Without Stars 1967 Buy
20 Tau Zero 1970 Buy
21 The Dancer From Atlantis 1971 Buy
22 The Byworlder 1971 Buy
23 Hrolf Kraki's Saga 1973 Buy
24 Inheritors of Earth(With: Gordon Eklund) 1974 Buy
25 Fire Time 1974 Buy
26 Homeward and Beyond 1975 Buy
27 The Winter of the World 1975 Buy
28 Two Worlds 1978 Buy
29 The Avatar 1978 Buy
30 The Merman's Children 1979 Buy
31 The Demon of Scattery(With: Mildred Downey Broxon) 1979 Buy
32 The Devil's Game 1980 Buy
33 The Gods Laughed 1982 Buy
34 New America 1982 Buy
35 No Truce with Kings & Ship of Shadows(With: Fritz Leiber) 1989 Buy
36 The Boat of a Million Years 1989 Buy
37 Inconstant Star 1990 Buy
38 Alight in the Void 1991 Buy
39 Genesis 1995 Buy
40 Starfarers 1998 Buy
41 Mother of Kings 2001 Buy
42 For Love and Glory 2003 Buy
01 Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 2013 Buy
02 Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 2013 Buy
03 Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 2013 Buy
04 Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 2013 Buy
05 Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 2013 Buy
06 Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 2013 Buy
07 Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 2013 Buy
08 Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 2013 Buy
09 Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 2013 Buy
10 Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 2013 Buy
11 Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 2013 Buy
12 Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 2013 Buy
13 Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 2013 Buy
14 Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 2013 Buy
15 Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 2013 Buy
16 Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 2013 Buy
17 Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 2013 Buy
18 Anthology of Sci-Fi V21, the Pulp Writers 2013 Buy
19 Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 2013 Buy
01 Un Man, And Other Novellas 1953 Buy
02 Orbit Unlimited 1961 Buy
03 Strangers From Earth 1961 Buy
05 Time and Stars 1964 Buy
06 Seven Conquests 1969 Buy
07 Beyond the Beyond 1969 Buy
08 Tales of the Flying Mountains 1970 Buy
09 The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories 1971 Buy
10 The Book of Poul Anderson / The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson 1974 Buy
11 Homebrew 1976 Buy
12 The Best of Poul Anderson 1976 Buy
13 The Night Face and Other Stories 1978 Buy
14 Fantasy 1981 Buy
15 Explorations 1981 Buy
16 The Dark Between Stars 1981 Buy
17 Winners 1981 Buy
18 Conflict 1983 Buy
19 Past Times 1984 Buy
20 The Unicorn Trade(With: Karen Anderson) 1984 Buy
21 Dialogue with Darkness 1985 Buy
22 Space Folk 1989 Buy
23 Kinship with the Stars 1991 Buy
24 Armies of Elfland 1992 Buy
25 All One Universe 1996 Buy
26 To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories 2007 Buy
27 The Valor of Cappen Varra and Two Other Science Fiction Tales 2009 Buy
28 Two Worlds of Poul Anderson: Science Fiction from the Golden Age 2010 Buy
29 Fragile and Distant Suns 2010 Buy
30 Swordsmen from the Stars 2020 Buy
Millenium Books in Reading Order 9 books / 1986-1989
01 The Legacy of Lehr(By: Katherine Kurtz) 1986 Buy
02 Chess With A Dragon(By: David Gerrold) 1987 Buy
03 A Dark Traveling(By: Roger Zelazny) 1987 Buy
04 Project Pendulum(By: Robert Silverberg) 1987 Buy
05 The Forever City(By: Richard A. Lupoff) 1988 Buy
06 The Year of the Ransom 1988 Buy
07 Joe Gosh(By: Tom De Haven) 1988 Buy
08 A Place of Silver Silence(By: Ardath Mayhar) 1988 Buy
09 The Homecoming(By: Barry B. Longyear) 1989 Buy
01 Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! 1983 Buy
01 War of the Gods 1997 Buy
01 Conan the Swordsman(By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter,Bj’rn Nyberg) 1978 Buy
02 Conan the Liberator(By: L. Sprague de Camp,Lin Carter) 1979 Buy
03 Conan: The Road of Kings(By: Karl Edward Wagner) 1979 Buy
04 The Sword of Skelos(By: Andrew J. Offutt) 1979 Buy
05 Conan and the Spider God(By: L. Sprague de Camp) 1980 Buy
06 Conan the Rebel 1980 Buy
07 Conan the Barbarian: The Official Motion Picture Adaptation(By: L. Sprague de Camp) 2023 Buy
01 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI(By: Robert Sheckley) 2016 Buy
02 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV(By: Robert Sheckley) 2018 Buy
03 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X(With: James Blish,Clifford D. Simak,Fritz Leiber,Harry Harrison,Roger Dee,Anthony Gilmore,Robert Hoskins,Richard Rein Smith) 2018 Buy
Flandry Books in Reading Order 14 books / 1959-2010
01 We Claim These Stars 1959 Buy
02 Earthman, Go Home! 1960 Buy
03 Mayday Orbit 1961 Buy
04 Agent of the Terran Empire 1965 Buy
05 Flandry of Terra 1965 Buy
06 Ensign Flandry 1966 Buy
07 The Rebel Worlds / Commander Flandry 1969 Buy
08 A Circus of Hells 1970 Buy
09 The Day of Their Return 1973 Buy
10 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows / Knight Flandry 1975 Buy
11 A Stone In Heaven 1979 Buy
12 The Long Night 1983 Buy
13 The Game of Empire 1985 Buy
14 Tiger by the Tail! 2010 Buy
01 War of the Wing-Men / The Man Who Counts 1958 Buy
02 Trader to the Stars 1964 Buy
03 The Trouble Twisters 1966 Buy
04 Satan's World 1968 Buy
05 The People of the Wind 1973 Buy
06 Mirkheim 1977 Buy
07 The Earth Book of Stormgate 1978 Buy
Hoka Books in Reading Order 4 books / 1957-2000
01 Earthman's Burden 1957 Buy
02 Star Prince Charlie 1975 Buy
03 Hoka! 1983 Buy
04 Hokas Pokas! 2000 Buy
01 Perish by the Sword 1959 Buy
02 Murder in Black Letter 1960 Buy
03 Murder Bound 1962 Buy
01 Is There Life on Other Worlds? 1968 Buy
02 The Infinite Voyage 1969 Buy
03 Writing & Selling Science Fiction 1977 Buy
01 Harvest of Stars 1993 Buy
02 The Stars are Also Fire 1994 Buy
03 Harvest the Fire 1995 Buy
04 The Fleet of Stars 1997 Buy
01 Guardians of Time 1955 Buy
02 Time Patrolman 1983 Buy
03 The Shield of Time 1990 Buy
01 The Van Rijn Method 2008 Buy
02 Star Trader 2009 Buy
03 Rise of the Terran Empire 2009 Buy
04 Young Flandry 2009 Buy
05 Defender of the Terran Empire 2010 Buy
06 Sir Dominic Flandry 2010 Buy
07 Flandry's Legacy 2011 Buy
01 Three Hearts and Three Lions 1953 Buy
02 A Midsummer Tempest 1974 Buy

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