Seven Conquests
A Fiction, Science Fiction book. Nice collection of a handful of short stories by my favorite author. All have the...
7 harrowing stories of men caught up in tomorrow's age of ultraviolenceKings Who Die evokes the special terrors that confront spacemen captured in interpla-netary war.Wildcat chronicles a desperate attempt to send a team of men through a time machine back into the age of brontosaurs—there to prospect for oil and pump it back into the present.Cold Victory depicts the holocaust of an interplanetary civil war fought to prevent Earth's secession from the Solar Union.Inside Straight spins the tale of a peaceful planet that employs the superstrategies of gambling tipsters to foil its archenemies.Details unfolds a suspenseful drama of international events influenced by unseen...
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Nice collection of a handful of short stories by my favorite author. All have the theme of conquest and war, and why man fights. I get the impression that some of the stories in this collection are kind of obscure; I certainly had not read any of them in any of the other Anderson anthologies I have. This is a collection of stories on the same theme -- the theme of war, and well, obviously, conquest. That can get a bit samey, reading them in one sitting, but it's an interesting collection (each with a short introduction by the author explaining the germ of the story idea).Some of them are pretty well written -- they've got an emotional... Foreword (Seven Conquests) (1969) essay by Poul AndersonKings Who Die (1962) novelette by Poul AndersonWildcat (1958) novelette by Poul AndersonCold Victory [Psychotechnic League] (1957) novelette by Poul AndersonInside Straight (1955) novelette by Poul AndersonDetails (1956) novelette by Poul AndersonLicense (1957) novelette by Poul...
