Книги автора Poul Anderson
Название: The High Crusade
Жанр: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2010
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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 village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting ship it is, are quite expert at taking over planets, and having determined from orbit that this one was suitable, they initiate standard world-conquering procedure. Ah, but this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix seek to enslave — they've launched their invasion against free Englishmen. In the end, only one alien is left alive — and Sir Roger's grand vision is born. He intends for the creature to fly the ship first to France to aid his King, then on to the Holy Land to vanquish the infidel. Unfortunately, he has not allowed for the treachery of the alien pilot, who instead takes the craft to his home planet, where, he thinks, these upstart barbarians will have no choice but to surrender. But that knavish alien little understands the indomitable will and clever resourcefulness of Englishmen, no matter how great the odds against them.
Название: Time Patrol
Жанр: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2006
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The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators.
Название: Tau Zero
Жанр: Orion Books
Год: 2009
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The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration. Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreperably and soon she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown.
Название: The Broken Sword
Жанр: Orion Books
Год: 2002
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Thor has broken the sword Tyrfing so that it cannot strike at the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds together earth, heaven and hell. But now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves in their war against the trolls, and only Scafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade Bolverk the ice-giant to make Tyrfing whole again. But Scafloc must also confront his shadow self, Valgard the changeling who has taken his place in the world of men.
Название: The Van Rijn Method
Жанр: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2009
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This volume features one of science fiction's most popular characters. When the human race spreads out among the stars, they take the profit motive with them, and none exemplifies that fact better than Nicholas Van Rijn, interstellar trader and capitalist extraordinaire.
Название: David Falkayn: Star Trader
Жанр: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2010
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Volume two in the Complete Technic Civilization Series, Star Trader continues the further adventures of Nicholas Van Rijn and his resourceful assistant, David Falkayn. This title includes the novel Satan's World.
Название: To Outlive Eternity
Жанр: Simon & Schuster
Год: 2009
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From the aftermath of World War III to a world inherited by robots, where humans are unwelcome... from a handful of human survivors on a starship desperately searching for other ships carrying survivors of the destruction of the entire Earth by an unknown enemy, who may strike again at any time, to another starship hurtling through the cosmos at a speed so close to that of light — and unable to slow down — that relativistic effects make millennia fly by for each tick of the clock on board... from a team striving to make Venus habitable for humans to a group of men who find the ominous secret behind a new quasi-religious philosophy that is sweeping the world. The wide-ranging imagination and exciting storytelling of Poul Anderson brings many different worlds to vivid life in a great volume of his best stories that will thrill all fans of science fiction.
