Notes: This unpaginated ebook is available from Webscription.net in multiple formats: Rocket eBook (.rb), Mobipocket/Kindle (.mobi), Microsoft (.lit), Sony (.lrf), Rich Text Format (.rtf) and HTML (.html) Added Notes: The ISBN of this ebook is duplicated by Webscriptions from the original Baen hardcover edition. Contents are not paginated, so placeholder numbers entered to retain the correct order. Further notes: This collection is a true 'compendium' pulling stories and introductions from various Poul writings across the years. For instance, the Afterword for the collection as a whole, first appeard as the (untitled, italiczed) introduction to Lodestar in the Astounding John W. Campbell Anthology in 1973, while the introduction to Lodestar used here is the introduction to that story which originally appeared in the Earth Book of Stormgate collection issued in 1978. The Introductions shown below to 'Day of Burning', 'A Little Knowledge', and 'Lodestar' shown below do not appear on the TOC of the html ebook the data was entered from. Because they represent identifiable bits of writing, which can be traced across multiple publications and collections (and have also been excluded from some publications), and are documented in the copyright notice as separate works, they have been identified here. These introductions previously appeared in the 1978 Earth Book of Stormgate as quotes/excerpts attributed to "—Hloch of the Stormgate Choth The Earth Book of Stormgate"