The Best of Poul Anderson

{{Short description|1976 collection of writings by Poul Anderson}}

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| author = Poul Anderson

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| cover_artist = Mara McAfee

| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Science fiction

| publisher = Pocket Books

| release_date = 1976

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| media_type = Print (paperback)

| pages = xvi, 287

| isbn = 0-671-80671-8

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The Best of Poul Anderson is a collection of writings by American science fiction and fantasy author Poul Anderson, first published in paperback by Pocket Books in August 1976. It was reprinted in August 1979.{{ISFDB title|id=37715}} The pieces were originally published between 1953 and 1970 in the magazines Astounding Science Fiction, Analog, Galaxy Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and the anthology The Farthest Reaches.

The book contains nine novellas, novelettes and short stories, together with an introduction by fellow science fiction writer Barry N. Malzberg and a second, general introduction and introductory notes on the individual stories by the author.