Poul Anderson Libri

Manse Everard, Agente Indipendente della Pattuglia del Tempo, è un uomo che ha una missione da compiere. Nella sua qualità di persona libera dalla disciplina del corpo il suo compito è di recarsi in qualsiasi luogo e in qualunque epoca, là dove, e quando!, l'armonioso futuro dell'umanità è minacciato da quanti vogliono cambiare il Tempo per i propri fini. E' questa la sua vocazione e insieme la sua maledizione. Perché quanta sofferenza può sopportare un uomo costretto a spostarsi di continuo fra i popoli delle varie ere?

Classic tales of science fiction adventure from the bestselling author of The Boat of a Million Years. From Earthman, Beware! to Flight to Forever , here are vigorous, fast-paced, spectacular tales from the Golden Age of Science stories full of startling ideas and swashbuckling adventure--as only Poul Anderson could tell them.Tell Me a StoryFlight to ForeverTerminal QuestThe Star BeastEarthman, Beware!Son of the SwordBallade of an Artificial Satellite (Poem)

Alexander Jones, a representative of the Interbeing League for the teddy-bear-like Hoka species, finds his assignment challenging when the human-emulating Hokas are unable to discern Earth fact from fiction.

THE SECRET OF THE SIGMAN Skip Wayburn, artist drifter, sigaroon, gulped down his food with nothing on his mind but a long evening of lovemaking. Far above him, the first emissary from interstellar space continued to orbit the globe. For three years it had been there, and still there were nothing but questions. What had lured the voyager from Sigma Dacron's to Earth? How did the creature plan to use its incredible power? And most important, why was it waiting...and for what? Then, in a blinding flash of insight, Skip Wayburn suddenly knew the answers... knew with dead certainty why the Sigman had come, who "he' was, and precisely what the Earthmen must do. But who would listen to the far-out ideas of a mere sigaroon? Skip didn't know. But someone had to listen—and fast.

Second in the series of classic SF novellas edited by Ben BovaGypsy by Poul Anderson...And Then There Were None by Eric Frank RussellProfession by Isaac Asimov