Starship

Book Details

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Author(s):

Poul Anderson

First Pub:

1982

Genre(s):

Collected Stories; Science Fiction

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Subject(s):

Science fiction

Chapters:

See 8

Foreward

Gypsy

Star Ship

Virgin Planet

Teucan

The Pirate

The Chapter Ends

Chronology of the Future

Internal ID:

13764

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

No dedication.

First Sentence:

With the development of a faster-than-light hyperdrive in 2784, the eight century-long saga of Earthlings in space entered a bold new phase.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Humankind's saga flows on.

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

Original publications:

"The Pirate" - Analog, © 1968 by Conde Nast Corporation
"Virgin Planet" - Venture © 1957 by Mercury Press, Inc.
"Teucan" - Cosmos Science Fiction and Fantasy © 1954 by Star Publications, Inc.
"The Chapter Ends" - Dynamic Science Fiction © 1953 by Columbia Publications, Inc.
"Star Ship" - Planet Stories © 1950 by Love Romances Publishing Co.
"Gypsy" - Astounding © 1950 by Street and Smith, Inc.

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Added: 08-Dec-2023

Last Updated: 08-Dec-2023

Publications

01-Feb-1983

Tor Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Feb-1983

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$2.75

Pages*:

282

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

33403

Publisher:

Tor Books

ISBN:

0-523-48533-6

ISBN-13:

978-0-523-48533-1

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Vincent DiFate - Cover Artist

THE WARS ARE OVER...

The conflicts of Planet Earth are forgotten now. Even The Solar System War with its Cold Victory is barely a memory. In this the third and final volume of THE PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE, the scale is immeasurably greater: in Space, in Time... and in violence.

Starship

Poul Anderson is one of the most highly regarded writers of science fiction of all time, ranking with Clarke, Asimov, Herbert, and Heinlein. Among his Nebula and Hugo Award-winning works are THE LONGEST VOYAGE, NO TRUCE WITH KINGS, THE SHARING OF FLESH, THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS, and GOAT SONG.

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First printing, June 1982
Second printing, February 1983
Includes:
A Chronology of the Psychotechnic Series

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Author(s)

Poul Anderson
Birth: 25 Nov 1926 Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 31 Jul 2001 Orinda, California, USA

Notes:

From "About Poul Anderson" in the 1985 edition of Brain Wave:

What would happen if...

Those are magic words, and the writer who chooses to follow out their intention finds himself suddenly released, in a world unbounded by here and now and open to the farthest reaches of logic and imagination. What would happen if philosophers were kings, if men could live forever, if the human race could suddenly surmount the limits of its present intelligence?

Such a train of thought has been the starting point for some of the most fascinating works of imaginative fiction, and it is to this class of informed speculation that BRAIN WAVE belongs. Poul Anderson (the pronunciation lies midway between "pole" and "powl") is, like many of the best writers in science fiction, a graduate physicist. (The physical sciences seem to be producing as many authors as medicine did a generation ago.) As such, he brings to fiction that sense of the possible that the widening horizon of science often bestows.

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