Operation Chaos (novel)

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Operation Chaos

Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Poul Anderson
Cover artist Pat Steir
Country United States
Language English
Genre Science fiction, Fantasy novel
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
 1971
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
ISBN 0-385-00588-1
Followed by Operation Luna, 2000

Operation Chaos is a 1971 science fiction/fantasy fixup novel by Poul Anderson. A sequel, Operation Luna, was published in 2000.

Plot summary

In an alternate world, where the existence of God has been scientifically proven and magic has been harnessed for the practical needs of the adept by the degaussing of cold iron, the United States is part of an alternative Second World War in which the enemy is not Germany but a resurgent Islamic Caliphate, which has invaded the United States. Werewolf Steven Matuchek and witch Virginia Graylock meet on a military mission to stop the invading Islamic army from unleashing a secret superweapon, a genie released from a bottle in which it had been sealed by King Solomon. Together, they fight against the demon and incidentally fall in love with each other.

After the end of the war (an Allied victory as in our World War II, but US forces remain in occupation of former enemy lands for much longer) the two of them continue and deepen their liaison and have various additional adventures (which were originally published as a series of independent stories). Among other things they stop an elemental summoned as a student prank which had gone amok, confront a succubus/incubus on their honeymoon, and enter the Hell dimension to save their daughter (who has been kidnapped and taken there, with a changeling left in her crib in her place).

Magazine publication

  • "Operation Afreet", in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1956
  • "Operation Salamander", in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1957
  • "Operation Incubus", in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1959
  • "Operation Changeling" (serial), in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May–June 1969
Works by Poul Anderson
Hoka
The Psychotechnic League
  • Star Ways
  • The Snows of Ganymede
  • Virgin Planet
  • The Psychotechnic League
  • Cold Victory
  • Starship
Tomorrow's Children
  • Tomorrow's Children
  • Chain of Logic
Technic History
Polesotechnic League period
of Nicholas van Rijn
  • War of the Wing-Men
  • Trader to the Stars
  • The Trouble Twisters
  • Satan's World
  • The Earth Book of Stormgate
  • Mirkheim
  • The People of the Wind
Technic History
Terran Empire period
of Dominic Flandry
  • Ensign Flandry
  • A Circus of Hells
  • The Rebel Worlds
  • The Day of Their Return
  • Agent of the Terran Empire
  • Flandry of Terra
  • A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows
  • A Stone in Heaven
  • The Game of Empire
  • The Long Night
  • Let the Spacemen Beware
Time Patrol
  • Time Patrol
  • Brave to be a King
  • The Year of the Ransom
  • The Shield of Time
History of Rustum
Maurai
Harvest of Stars
  • Harvest of Stars
  • The Stars Are Also Fire
  • Harvest of Fire
  • The Fleet of Stars
Other novels
science-fiction
  • Flight to Forever
  • Vault of the Ages
  • Brain Wave
  • Question and Answer
  • No World of Their Own
  • The Long Way Home
  • Perish by the Sword
  • War of Two Worlds
  • The Enemy Stars
  • The High Crusade
  • Murder in Black Letter
  • Twilight World
  • After Doomsday
  • The Makeshift Rocket
  • Murder Bound
  • Shield
  • Three Worlds to Conquer
  • The Corridors of Time
  • The Star Fox
  • The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck
  • World Without Stars
  • Tau Zero
  • The Byworlder
  • The Dancer from Atlantis
  • There Will Be Time
  • Fire Time
  • Inheritors of Earth
  • The Winter of the World
  • The Avatar
  • The Demnon of Scattery
  • The Devil's Game
  • The Boat of a Million Years
  • The Saturn Game
  • The Longest Voyage
  • War of the Gods
  • Starfarers
  • Genesis
  • Mother of Kings
  • For Love and Glory
Collections
  • Strangers from Earth
  • Un-Man and Other Novellas
  • Time and Stars
  • The Horn of Time
  • Beyond the Beyond
  • Seven Conquest
  • Tales of the Flying Mountains
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories
  • The Worlds of Poul Anderson
  • The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson
  • Homeward and Beyond
  • The Best of Poul Anderson
  • Homebrew
  • The Night Face & Other Stories
  • The Dark Between the Stars
  • Explorations
  • Fantasy
  • Winners
  • Cold Victory
  • The Gods Laughed
  • Starship
  • The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness
  • Conflict
  • The Long Night
  • Past Times
  • The Unicorn Trade
  • Dialogue With Darkness
  • Space Folk
  • Alight in the Void
  • The Armies of Elfland
  • Inconstant Star
  • Kinship With the Stars
  • All One Universe
  • Going for Infinity
King of Ys (fantasy)
  • Roma Mater
  • Gallicenae
  • Dahut
  • The Dog and the Wolf
Operation Otherworld (fantasy)
Other novels
fantasy
The Last Viking (Historical)
  • The Golden Horn
  • The Road of the Sea Horse
  • The Sign of the Raven
Historical novels
Anthologies
  • Nebula Award Stories Four
  • The Day the Sun Stood Still
  • A World Named Cleopatra
Selected novellas/short stories
Non-Fiction
  • Is There Life on Other Worlds?
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