David Falkayn, Poul Anderson
David Falkayn, Poul Anderson
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David Falkayn
Star Trader

Author: Poul Anderson

Narrator: BJ Harrison

Unabridged: 22 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/25/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

When You Trade Upon a Star!

Think self-congratulating Federation lackeys are going to be the ones to boldly go where no one has gone before? Think again! Now second-son of nobility David Falkayn, hot to prove his worth, leads a team of alien capitalists through deadly threat and gnarly interplanetary dilemma. The mission: to keep intergalactic trade forever free—and always profitable!

Contains mature themes.

About Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his hard science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets," he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or "Wanderer," Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on August 27, 2011

Like the previous volume, I've read many of these stories before, but not in chronological order. Overall, I find the stories in this volume more interesting than those in the previous one, largely because I find the character of Falkayn more interesting than that of Van Rijn. Van Rijn is nearly an......more

Goodreads review by Jay on May 13, 2009

This is the second book in the new compilation of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization stories, and it's going to be hard to top. Apart from the titular Falkayn and his alien trader-pioneer partners, Chee Lan and Adzel the dragon, it features Nicholas Van Rijn himself again in most of the stories, a......more

Goodreads review by Rob on March 06, 2010

...The next volume, Rise of the Terran Empire, will introduce the next phase in Technic History. Dominic Flandry, the main character in most of the stories from the Terran Empire period will not show up until part four however. I think this change of scene will be good for the readers not familiar w......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on September 12, 2020

I'm torn on this one, much as I was torn on the first volume. The Technic Civilization stories straddle the line between Space Opera and Hard Science Fiction, and that is sometimes to its benefit and other times to its detriment. There are thrilling heroics and moments of bland explorations of theor......more

Goodreads review by Scott Street on January 11, 2023

Evergreen The first SF I read (at 8) was by Robert Heinlein and Andre Norton. As soon as I moved beyond juveniles, they were joined by Poul Anderson. I will never tire of (re)reading the first two, but the titles of theirs on my shelves are far outnumbered by those of the third. Anderson does not ju......more