BAEN Books is in the middle of reprinting all of Poul Anderson’s Psychotechnic League stories. This second volume features mostly stories from the 1950s when Anderson was just formulating his projected Future. The third and final volume in THE COMPLETE PSYCHOTECHNIC LEAGUE series will be published in July 2018. If you’re a fan of Poul Anderson, you’ll love these stories. If you’re a fan of classic science fiction, it doesn’t get much better than this. My review of The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 1 can be found here. GRADE: A
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Forward By Sandra Miesel 3
Quixote and the Windmill 7
Holmgang 19
Cold Victory 53
What Shall It Profit? 73
The Troublemakers 91
The Snows of Ganymede 141
Brake 217
Gypsy 255
Star Ship 273
I’m reading Volume 1 now, strted it last night after finishing ORIGIN. You know I love Poul Anderson. (BTW, typo in your first sentence)
Rick, I grew up reading Poul Anderson. I think the first Poul Anderson SF novel I ever read was VAULT OF THE AGES in the Winston SF series. Thanks for the heads up!
George, my first Poul Anderson novel was BRAIN WAVE. I was totally hooked. Anderson has given us many wonderful stories over the years.
Jerry, I’m always impressed with Poul Anderson’s quality control. I especially like his books and stories from the 1950s and 1960s.
My first Anderson was Brain Wave. My favorite is The Broken Sword. Read a lot of his stuff in the 60’s and early 70’s. Mostly his short fiction.
Steve, I enjoyed reading both BRAIN WAVE and THE BROKEN SWORD when I was a kid. Great stuff!
Don’t think it was my first, but a strong memory is reading “War of the Wing-Men” in Astounding SF (published as THE MAN WHO COUNTS). A terrific story.
Rick, I always liked the ACE Double cover to WAR OF THE WING-MEN! It captured that “sense of wonder” when I was a kid.
Usually enjoy Anderson’s work enormously…notable at the beginning of his career for the degree to which his work, like that of Leigh Brackett, was among the best published by both PLANET STORIES and ASTOUNDING, theoretically at opposite poles (not Pouls) of sf…but not really…
Todd, I grew up reading Poul Anderson’s SF and fantasy. I have a lot of fond memories of curling up and reading an ACE Double with Poul Anderson’s work on Both Sides!