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Author: Poul Anderson Title: The Star Fox Publisher:   Panther Country: UK Date: 1968 Format: Paperback Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller Cat#: 026312 Total Editions: 10 First Published:   1965 Rating: 10.0  Rate Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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first uk p/b edition published 1968 by panther books, no longer ltd. but a part of granada publishing ltd; 02631 2 in their newly-acquired panther books series after buying panther books ltd and its assets, including office leaseholds, (3 upper james street, golden square, london) distribution centre (frogmore, st. albans) etc, outright, but before establishing a coherent corporate identity, image, etc, for colophon & indica.

204pp incl. 6pp titles, + 1p advertising panther books series authors' names, 2pp adverts. for j. g. ballard's "the crystal world" (5/-) & for isaac asimov's foundation trilogy (5/- each)

cover illustration by bob haberfield, cover price 5/-
(also: australia 80¢, new zealand 75¢, south africa 60¢; but no addresses given for publishers or distributors in these territories)

first published in great britain in hardcover by victor gollancz ltd, henrietta street, london 1966

part one: marque and reprisal
part two: arsenal port
part three: admiralty

parts published in somewhat different form in issues of the magazine of fantasy & science-fiction ("f&sf") 2, 4 & 6/1965

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Poul Anderson - The Star Fox - Doubleday - Hardcover - USA (1965)

Comments and Reviews

ppint. 18th Sep 2020		gunnar heim reappears in the also excellent novel, ''fire time'' (1974), q.v.; but this is not an immediate sequel to the events of ''the star fox''.
ppint. 31st Jan 2016		Rated 10/10 one of poul anderson's best thought-out, plotted and realised adventure-thriller sf series of novellas/fix-up novels of the fifties-through-sixties, which means one of the best such by any sf writer of the period. humanity and the young, expanding and militarist alerion empire have rubbed up against each other, and alerion has conquered the fairly recently human-colonised planet, christened "new europe" - saying that there were, alas, no human survivors. this being so, the world federation on earth sees no point in turning a highly regrettable incident into a war - but retired captain gunnar heim is amongst a passionate minority who believe alerion's expansionism must be faced, and halted - and he meets a man who says he knows the settlers are not dead, but retreated into the haute garance - which heim already knows as good guerilla country from earlier visits to the settler-world, and where friends, perhaps including an old flame of his, are still holding out - for a while. - unable to gain any official support for military action by the world federation, nor from any of its member states, the gunnar heim of heimdall space motors outfits a ship at his own expense - and sets out "armed" with letters of marque and reprisal - for no-one has thought to close a loophole of national powers unexploited since the nineteenth century, and never since used - nor ever contemplated by anyone as being seriously even in possibility being applicable in space... - after initial successes, gunnar heim discovers unexpectedly that time is not on the colonists' side, as he had thought it would be - and therefore, nor can it be on his side; and he must bring matters to a critical decision point where the advantage is not his: how he responds, and how his moves are answered by the alerion commander he faces, eventually presents him with a decision difficult on more than one level, on top of the gamble he and his comrades've been prepared to make, of their own lives. - good, absorbing adventure sf with food for thought, in which the aleriona are not evil; nor are they depicted as being so. 3 people found this review helpful.   ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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