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Have I mentioned that this is not a 140 page book, but a 600+ page monster collection? I've just finished "Marque and Reprisal", which starts as a quite bad (but in a goodish way) space adventure novel, and then stops dead after ~50 pages, when it should really start...

It's a mixed bag. Most of the stories are decent to good, but the order and selection of them is incoherent. And at least some of the biographical information is plain wrong.

If one thing about this work is certain, it is that there are too many books share variations of the same title. This one is an at best semi-organised collection of short works of Poul Anderson - although so far most are not short stories. I've read novellas (like the titular one), poems, and an essay, but not a real short story. Most of the works are at least decent, but their order is a mystery full of surprises...