Afterword
With the publication of this volume, the eighth in Baen’s reissue of the writings of Christopher Anvil, Baen Books has now put back in print everything Anvil wrote in the way of science fiction. Anvil died recently, on November 30, 2009. The last science fiction story he ever wrote, “The Anomaly,” was written for this volume and is now seeing its first publication.
What follows is a complete bibliography of Christopher Anvil’s science fiction works. The bibliography is arranged in chronological order, by publication date.
EDITOR’S NOTES TO BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Note 1. The column titled “Volume” refers to the volume in the Baen edition of Anvil’s writings. Those volumes are:
Pandora’s Legions, Baen Books (February 2002)
Interstellar Patrol I, Baen Books (April 2003)
Interstellar Patrol II, Baen Books (March 2005)
The Trouble With Aliens, Baen Books (August 2006)
The Trouble With Humans, Baen Books (August 2007)
War Games, Baen Books (December 2008)
Rx For Chaos, Baen Books (December 2008)
The Power of Illusion, Baen Books (this edition)
Note 2. Most of the stories which were included in Pandora’s Legions, including the original novel Pandora’s Planet, were reworked by Anvil into a unitary novel for this volume. The only exception is “Sweet Reason,” which was reissued in the same form in which it was originally published.
Note 3. The first three stories in the Interstellar Patrol setting—“Strangers to Paradise,” “The Dukes of Desire” and “The King’s Legions”—were reissued by Tower Books in 1969 as a novel under the title Strangers in Paradise. The editors of that volume ignored Anvil’s advice, and he always disliked the end result. So, when I began putting together the first of the Interstellar Patrol volumes for this edition, I followed Anvil’s desires and we reissued the three stories as they were originally published in Astounding Science Fiction.
Eric Flint