The Longest Voyage
"The Longest Voyage" is a science fiction short story by Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1961.
Plot summary
On a distant world the age of exploration is beginning. A party of daring explorers attempts to circumnavigate their world. In unknown waters they encounter an island civilization which claims to have a prophet who fell from the stars.
Possible Significance of this Story for Science
The story was set on a habitable satellite of a Jupiter-type gas giant planet orbiting in the 'Goldilocks' zone of its star. Current research on exo-planets is extending to efforts to pinpoint potentially habitable 'exo-moons', which could be better bets for finding evidence of extraterrestrial life than would be the case for gas giant planets more readily discovered by exo-planet astrometry techniques.
For reference, see: 'The search for life on faraway moons' by Lee Billings, Scientific American 310(1), January 2014: 39-43
Sources, references, external links, quotations
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| | The Psychotechnic League |
- Star Ways
- The Snows of Ganymede
- Virgin Planet
- The Psychotechnic League
- Cold Victory
- Starship
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| | Tomorrow's Children |
- Tomorrow's Children
- Chain of Logic
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| 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
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| 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
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| | Time Patrol |
- Time Patrol
- Brave to be a King
- The Year of the Ransom
- The Shield of Time
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| | History of Rustum | |
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| | Maurai | |
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| | Harvest of Stars |
- Harvest of Stars
- The Stars Are Also Fire
- Harvest of Fire
- The Fleet of Stars
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| Other novels
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| | 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
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| | King of Ys (fantasy) |
- Roma Mater
- Gallicenae
- Dahut
- The Dog and the Wolf
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fantasy | |
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| | The Last Viking (Historical) |
- The Golden Horn
- The Road of the Sea Horse
- The Sign of the Raven
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| | Anthologies |
- Nebula Award Stories Four
- The Day the Sun Stood Still
- A World Named Cleopatra
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| | Non-Fiction |
- Is There Life on Other Worlds?
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