Poul Anderson has 16 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 19 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 23 ratings. The most-rated is Tau Zero.
Tau Zero
Summary
This science fiction novel describes the epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine, which will take a 40-strong crew to a planet some 30 light years distant. From practically the very first minute, Tau Zero sets scientific realities in dramatic tension with the very real emotional and psychological states of the travelers, exploring the effect of time contraction due to traveling at near-light speed on the human psyche. This tension is a dynamic that Anderson explores with great success over the course of the novel, as 50 crewmembers settle in for the long journey together. While they are a highly trained team of scientists and researchers and therefore professionals, they are also a community of individuals, each of them trying to create for him or herself a life in a whole new space - or, literally, in space. It isn't long, however, before the voyage takes a turn for the worse. The ship passes through a small, uncharted nebula that makes it impossible to decelerate the ship. Their only hope is to do the opposite and speed up. But acceleration towards and within the speed of light means that time outside the spaceship passes even more rapidly, sending the crew deeper into space and further into an unknown future.
©2016 Poul Anderson (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Three Hearts and Three Lions
Summary
The gathering forces of the Dark Powers threaten the world of man. The legions of Faery, aided by trolls, demons, and the Wild Hunt itself, are poised to overthrow the Realms of Light. Holger Carlsen, a bemused and puzzled twentieth-century man mysteriously snatched out of time, finds himself the key figure in the conflict. Arrayed against him are the dragons, giants, and elfin warriors of the armies of Chaos and the beautiful sorceress Morgan le Fay. On his side are a vague prophecy, a quarrelsome dwarf, and a beautiful woman who can turn herself into a swan, not to mention Papillon, the magnificent battle horse, and a full set of perfectly fitting armor, both of which were waiting for him when he entered the magical realm. The shield bears three hearts and three lions—the only clue to Holger Carlsen’s true identity. Could Carlsen really be a legendary hero, the only man who can save the world?
©1953 Fantasy House, Inc. 1961 by Poul Anderson (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Boat of a Million Years
Summary
Others have written science fiction on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on—unaging, undying—through the centuries and millennia. This story follows them over two thousand years, up to our time and beyond—to the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars. A milestone in modern science fiction and a New York Times Notable Book when first published in 1989, this is one of a great writer’s finest works.
©1989 Poul Anderson (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Great Sci-Fi Stories, Volume 1
Summary
This volume contains a variety of imaginative stories from both famous and not-so-famous science fiction writers. Titles include: "The Six Fingers of Time" by R. A. Lafferty "Card Trick" by Randall Garret "A World Apart" by Sam Merwin, Jr. "Industrial Revolution" by Poul Anderson "The Martian and Moron" by Theodore Sturgeon "The Smiler" by Albert Hernhunter "Project Hush" by William Tenn "Hunter Patrol" by H. Beam Piper and John McGuire "A Little Journey" by Ray Bradbury "Master of the Moondog" by Stanley Mullen "The Storm" by A.E. Van Vogt "Thompson's Cat" by Robert More Williams "Scrimshaw" by Murray Leinster "The Clean and Wholesome Land" by Ralph Shoto "Tony and the Beetles" by Phlip K. Dick "Innocent at Large" by Poul Anderson "Novice" by James H. Schmitz
©2020 Jimcin Recordings (P)2020 Jimcin Recordings
Time Patrol
Summary
Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. 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 who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. But Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering - or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists - erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul.
©2006 Poul Anderson (P)2020 Tantor
The Van Rijn Method
Summary
The buck starts here! Think there's an unbridgeable gulf between human and alien thought? Not so! There's a common tongue, all right - and Nicholas Van Rijn speaks it fluently: trade. For behind the buffoonish blarney and bawdy bonhomie of the Falstaffian Van Rijn is a man who gets things done. A born wheeler-dealer who usually leaves both sides better off in the bargain. (While pocketing a hefty cut of the profits himself, of course!) With "The Man Who Counts" and a passel of other tales included, this is the first of three volumes set to contain the complete cycle of Polesotechnic League books and stories by transcendently gifted science fiction master (how does seven Hugos and three Nebula Awards strike you?) Poul Anderson - and starring Nicholas Van Rijn, his most famous character of all! Contains mature themes.
©2008 Poul Anderson (P)2020 Tantor
Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire
Summary
No longer a brash, young ensign, Captain Dominic Flandry has risen in rank but now appreciates fully that the Terran empire is old and tired, wanting to be left in peace. But the enemies it has made and the competing empire of Merseia will give it no peace. Too evenly matched for open warfare not to destroy them both, the opponents engage in subtle thrust and counter-thrust, feint and counter-feint, with Flandry in the thick of it. Though through this and his succeeding adventures he will struggle gloriously and snatch victory from the alien jaws of defeat, Flandry is yet a tragic figure: a man who knows too much history, who knows that battle, scheme, and even betray as he will, in the end it will mean nothing. For with the relentlessness of physical law the Empire is falling and the Long Night is approaching. If that darkness is not to fall in his own lifetime, if the things he cares about are to be saved, he must do what he can. And anyone, human or alien, who gets in his way will most definitely regret it. Contains mature themes.
©2010 Poul Anderson (P)2021 Tantor
Sir Dominic Flandry
Summary
Captain Dominic Flandry has been knighted for his many services to the Terran Empire - an empire which is old, jaded, and corrupt, as Flandry well knows - but he also knows that the empire is better than anything that is likely to take its place. And while that "Sir" before his name may be an added attraction to comely ladies (not that he has ever lacked for the pleasant company of the same), he expects that it will also bring him less welcome attention from envious "colleagues" within the empire. What it is not likely to do is make him more of an object of interest to the alien Merseians, whose plots against the empire he has repeatedly foiled. They already are as aware as they can be of how much simpler their plans to rule the galaxy would be if their most dangerous adversary were the late Sir Dominic Flandry. Contains mature themes.
©2010 Poul Anderson (P)2021 Tantor
Young Flandry
Summary
It is the twilight of the Terran Empire. The warriors who made it great are long gone now, and the traders of the Polesotechnic League who made it possible are the dimly remembered stuff of legend. Alien enemies prowl its outer precincts, and sector governors conspire for the Throne of Man. On Terra herself, those who occupy the labyrinthine corridors of power busy themselves with trivialities and internal politics, as outside the final darkness gathers. In this scene of terminal disarray one man stands like a giant: Dominic Flandry, agent of the Terran Empire. In three full-length novels, he will rise from young ensign to lieutenant commander as he outthinks rivals and thwarts adversaries, blazing a trail across the galaxy in defense of an empire which barely appreciates him and against alien enemies who appreciate him all too well. Contains mature themes.
©2009 Hank Davis ("Enter a Hero, Somewhat Flawed"); copyright 2008 by Sandra Miesel ("A Chronology of Technic Civilization"); copyright 1966 by Poul Anderson (Ensign Flandry); copyright 1970 by Poul Anderson (A Circus of Hells); copyright 1969 by Poul Anderson (The Rebel Worlds) (P)2021 Tantor
Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!
Summary
The Interbeing League had been formed to make contact with new intelligent races in the galaxy and offer them membership. But when the League encountered the Hokas, furry creatures strongly resembling the teddy bears of Earth, the league's agent, Alexander Jones, could have been excused for wishing he had a simpler assignment than making sense out of the Hokas - such as singlehandedly stopping an interstellar war. Not that the fuzzy aliens were unfriendly. In fact, they loved everything about humans, and adopted various Terram cultures wholesale and in every little detail - but with a bit of confusion about the differences between fact and fiction. So, if the Hokas suddenly started outing out the parts in a rip-roaring, shoot-em-up Western, or brought to life the London of Sherlock Holmes, complete with a pip-puffing, deerstalker-wearing Hoka, or suddenly decided to fly the Jolly Roger and lead a life of adventure and piracy on the high seas, mate - well, that was to be expected. And as the Hokas threw themselves wholeheartedly into progressively wilder worlds from Terran history and fiction, Jones could be excused for feeling that his grip on reality was hanging by a single, thin, increasingly frayed thread.
©1957, 1983 Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson (P)2021 Tantor
Harvest of Stars
Summary
Earth lies crushed in the grip of totalitarianism. To save her planet, Kyra Davis is sent on a mission to liberate the last bastion of freedom and to rescue its legendary leader. Her bold adventure will sweep her from Earth’s rebel enclaves to the decadent court of an exotic lunar colony.
©1993 Trigonier Trust (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
David Falkayn: Star Trader
Summary
When you trade upon a star... Think self-congratulating Federation lackeys are going to be the ones to boldly go where no one has gone before? Think again! Now second-son of nobility David Falkayn, hot to prove his worth, leads a team of alien capitalists through deadly threat and gnarly interplanetary dilemma. The mission: to keep intergalactic trade forever free - and always profitable! Contains mature themes.
©2009 Poul Anderson (P)2020 Tantor
Rise of the Terran Empire
Summary
Nicholas van Rijn, the most flamboyant member of the Polesotechnic League of star traders, could see dark times ahead. Fellow league members were using tactics verging on outright piracy, and others were all too eager to sell starships and high-tech weapons to alien barbarians. A planet not previously known for interstellar commerce suddenly revealed a secret fleet of armed starships and started building an empire. Even if Van Rijn and his right-hand man, David Falkayn, could find a way to stop this blatant aggression, the glory days of the League were over. Hereafter, for its own protection against well-armed alien marauders, the Earth must maintain a strong military fleet, and one charismatic man would found an empire that would learn nothing of the lessons history taught about the fates of other empires as it began annexing other star systems, whether they wanted to join the Terran Empire or not.... Contains mature themes.
©2009 Poul Anderson (P)2020 Tantor
The Best of Fantasy 2001
Summary
These stories are set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern listeners are accustomed, and also stories rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, along with several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. Together these stories make up a collection which provides reassuring proof of fantasy's eternal power in this technological age. Stories include: “Bones of the Earth” written and performed by Ursula K. LeGuin ”Eternity and Afterword” written by Lucius Shepard and performed by Stefan Rudnicki ”The Lady of the Wind” written by Poul Anderson and performed by Scott Brick ”Legerdemain” written by Jack O’Connell and performed by William Windom “Diving the Coolidge written by Brian A. Hopkins and performed by M.E. Willis ”The Mould of Form” written by Rosemary Edghill and performed by Terry Fishman ”Wolves Till the World Goes Down” written by Greg Van Eeckhout and performed by Jason Cole ”Ave de Paso” written and performed by Catherine Asaro ”Roxanne Hernandez Grass” written by Lawrence Miles and performed by Gabrielle de Cuir and William Windom ”Slipshot, at the End of the Universe” written by Robert Thurston and performed by Iris Bahr
©2002 iboooks, Inc. (P)2002, 2019 Audio Literature, Phoenix Books
Le Patrouilleur du temps
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L'homme a inventé le voyage dans le temps. Désormais, pour l'humanité, rien ne sera jamais plus comme avant. Et si cette révolution promet des perspectives phénoménales, c'est aussi la porte ouverte à toutes les dérives, tous les dangers. Ces dangers sont la raison d'être de la Patrouille du temps : à la fois préserver notre Histoire (et donc, notre présent !) mais aussi mieux la connaître... Ce second volume réunit trois aventures de la Patrouille : D'ivoire, de singes et de paons : Tyr la pourpre et ses ruelles bondées, sous le règne du roi Hiram, au X siècle avant notre ère ; Le Chagrin d'Odin le Goth : la brutalité des mondes goths, peu avant la chute de Rome, au temps où les dieux parcouraient encore la Terre ; La Mort et le Chevalier : les mystères du Paris des Templiers sous le règne de l'implacable Philippe le Bel. Autant d'époques en péril, autant de missions pour les Patrouilleurs du temps... Après le vertigineux Tau Zero déjà disponible en audio, découvrez le célèbre cycle de Poul Anderson dans une édition audio intégrale exceptionnelle. Poul Anderson (1926-2001) est un des auteurs majeurs de la SF américaine et du "merveilleux scientifique". Sept fois lauréat du prix Hugo, il est l'auteur de certains des plus grands monuments du genre, dont le cycle de La Patrouille du temps. En 2001, il reçoit un prix Prometheus spécial pour l'ensemble de son œuvre. Anderson a écrit un nombre très important de nouvelles dont certaines ont vu leurs thèmes repris par d'autres artistes. Avant-propos de Jean-Daniel Brèque.
©2007 Trigonier Trust et Le Bélial'. Gil Formosa pour la couverture (P)2021 Sonobook
La Patrouille du temps
Summary
"- Vous ferez l'affaire. Sans conteste. - L'affaire pour quoi ? Everard se pencha ; il sentit son pouls s'accélérer. - Pour la Patrouille. Vous allez devenir une sorte de policier. - Ouais ? Où ça ? - Partout. Et en tout temps." Préparez-vous à une surprise... Voyez-vous, notre société, quoique légale, ne constitue qu'une façade... et une source de fonds. Notre vraie fonction, c'est de patrouiller le temps. Ainsi, Manse Everard est-il recruté pour intégrer la Patrouille du temps, société tentaculaire et ultra-secrète à la mission vertigineuse : protéger l'humanité menacée au cœur même de son Histoire et à travers les âges. Commence alors pour Everard la plus fantastique des épopées, une série d'aventures temporelles échevelées pour préserver le monde des fanatiques et autres illuminés avides de réécrire notre Histoire. Bienvenue dans le tourbillon des siècles ! Accrochez-vous à votre scooter temporel et suivez Manse Everard, tout jeune membre de la Patrouille du temps, dans les premiers chants de son épopée formidable ! Après le vertigineux Tau Zero déjà disponible en audio, découvrez le célèbre cycle de Poul Anderson dans une édition audio intégrale exceptionnelle. Ce premier tome réunit cinq premières aventures de la Patrouille : La Patrouille du temps ; Le Grand Roi ; Les Chutes de Gibraltar ; Échec aux Mongols ; L'Autre univers. Poul Anderson (1926-2001) est un des auteurs majeurs de la SF américaine et du "merveilleux scientifique". Sept fois lauréat du prix Hugo, il est l'auteur de certains des plus grands monuments du genre, dont le cycle de La Patrouille du temps. En 2001, il reçoit un prix Prometheus spécial pour l'ensemble de son œuvre. Anderson a écrit un nombre très important de nouvelles dont certaines ont vu leurs thèmes repris par d'autres artistes. Avant-propos de Jean-Daniel Brèque.
©2005 Trigonier Trust et Le Bélial'. Gil Formosa pour la couverture (P)2021 Sonobook