Call Me Joe

Poul Anderson

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Call Me Joe

Volume One

The Collected Short Works of

Poul Anderson

Edited by Rick Katze and Lis Carey

Call Me Joe is the first of a multi-volume compendium of Poul Anderson’s best works from a writing career that spans over 50 years. As currently planned, the volumes will contain the best of his writing, and include all his Hugo-winning and Hugo-nominated short fiction. A representative sample of Poul’s stand-alone verse is also included.

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2015

Call Me Joe: Volume One: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson

Edited by Rick Katze and Lis Carey

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First Hardcover Edition, March 2009

ISBN-10: 1-886778-75-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-886778-75-7
First E-book Edition, October 2015
ISBN-13: 978-1-61037-318-0

Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction

Poul Anderson by Greg Bear

Call Me Joe

Prayer in War

Tomorrow’s Children

Kinnison’s Band

The Helping Hand

Wildcat

Clausius’ Chaos

Journey’s End

Heinlein’s Stories

Logic

Time Patrol

The First Love

The Double-Dyed Villains

To a Tavern Wench

The Immortal Game

Upon the Occasion of Being Asked to Argue That Love and Marriage are Incompatible

Backwardness

Haiku

Genius

There Will Be Other Times

The Live Coward

Ballade of an Artificial Satellite

Time Lag

The Man Who Came Early

Autumn

Turning Point

Honesty

The Alien Enemy

Eventide

Enough Rope

The Sharing of Flesh

Barbarous Allen

Welcome

Flight to Forever

Sea Burial

Barnacle Bull

To Jack Williamson

Time Heals

MacCannon

The Martian Crown Jewels

Then Death Will Come

Prophecy

Einstein’s Distress

Kings Who Die

Ochlan

Starfog

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About the Author, Artist, and Publisher

Publication History

Acknowledgments

Praise for the works of Poul Anderson

Editor’s
Introduction

This is the first in a multi-volume collection of Poul Anderson stories. The stories are not in any discernible pattern. I hope to include at least one story from the Pulps in each volume. Future volumes will also contain selected portions of his non-fiction writing on science fiction topics.

In this volume you will find a selection of his earliest works from his first published story, “Tomorrow’s Children”, to “Genius”. which discusses the dangers in social experimentation.

There are the stories of time travel. We meet, for the first time, Manse Everard in “Time Patrol”. Poul wrote many stories about him. In “Wildcat” we are drilling for oil in prehistoric times to feed America’s needs. “The Man Who Came Early” shows us just how far a modern soldier suddenly sent back in time to the era of the Vikings can progress. “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”, it isn’t. “Time Lag” explores war between two planets, separated by light years and without faster-than light drive.