The Earth Book of Stormgate Author:Poul Anderson Central to the work of Poul Anderson is his great future history series, The History of the Polesotechnic League, featuring two of his most famous characters - the wily trader, Nicholas van Rijn, and the explorer, David Falkayn. Anderson's stories and novels of the League have grown and coalesced into one of the major works of contemporary SF. — ... more »Now, in The Earth Book of Stormgate, the final twelve stories are collected to complete the series' five volumes. The present volume brings together these stories, which span four thousand years of future history, and sets them in the context of the whole series, with a detailed chart that incorporates many of Anderson's later works in one enormous schema.