Time and Stars

Not to be confused with Of Time and Stars.

Time and Stars
Dust-jacket from the first edition
Author	Poul Anderson
Cover artist	Thomas Chibbaro^[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction, short stories
Publisher	1964 (Doubleday)
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	249 pp
ISBN	NA ASIN B0000CM9GM

Time and Stars (no ISBN for original hardcover version) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Poul Anderson, published in 1964.

"Dangerous universe: Faced with machines that think by and for themselves, super-intelligent space beings bent on a suicidal course and a galaxy teeming with dangerous alien life, man had to invent new weapons, new defenses - or perish from the universe."^[2]

Source^[3]

"No Truce with Kings": A war story set on a future, semi-primitive Earth with aliens
- Original Appearance: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1963
"The Critique of Impure Reason": A robot will not work because it is infatuated with modern literature and literary criticism
- Original Appearance: If, November 1962
"Escape from Orbit": Astronauts stranded in orbit around the moon
- Original Appearance: Amazing Stories, October 1962
"Eve Times Four": Space traveler Lothario is stranded on a planet with three beautiful women
- Original Appearance: Fantastic Science Fiction Stories, April 1960
"Turning Point": A first contact story that gives a haunting portrait of the price of giftedness and the loss of innocence
- Original Appearance: If, May 1963
"Epilogue": A crew of humans return to Earth after a long absence, finding it has been taken over by a kind of transistor-based ecology of machines; a lack of understanding between the robots and the humans leads to tragedy
- Original Appearance: Analog, March 1962

Literary significance & criticism

The collection was reviewed by Algis Budrys in the February 1965 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

References

↑ isfdb
↑ From the back cover of the 1975 Manor Books paperback edition
↑ Review, Paul Camp, Amazon.com, 25 February 2010

Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 1.

External links

Time and Stars review at SF Reviews
Time and Stars at Google Books

Works by Poul Anderson

Hoka	Earthman's Burden Star Prince Charlie 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	Orbit Unlimited New America

Maurai	Maurai and Kith Orion Shall Rise

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)	Operation Chaos Operation Luna

Other novels fantasy	Three Hearts and Three Lions The Broken Sword Hrolf Kraki's Saga A Midsummer Tempest The Merman's Children Conan the Rebel War of the Gods

The Last Viking (Historical)	The Golden Horn The Road of the Sea Horse The Sign of the Raven

Historical novels	The Golden Slave Rogue Sword Mother of Kings

Anthologies	Nebula Award Stories Four The Day the Sun Stood Still A World Named Cleopatra

Selected novellas/short stories	"Brake" "Call Me Joe" "Delenda Est" "The Entity" "Eutopia" "Goat Song" "High Treason" "Lodestar" "The Longest Voyage" "The Man Who Came Early" "Marius" "Memory" "Night Piece" "No Truce with Kings" "The Pirate" "The Queen of Air and Darkness" "The Saturn Game" "The Sensitive Man" "The Sharing of Flesh" "Un-Man"

Non-Fiction	Is There Life on Other Worlds?

Time and Stars

Contents

Literary significance & criticism

References

External links