Title: Honorable Enemies

Title: Honorable Enemies Title Record # 62697
Author: Poul Anderson
Date: 1951-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novelette
Series: Dominic Flandry
Language: English

Synopsis: A crack agent of the human empire competes with a telepathic alien who is the top agent of a rival empire, to gain the alliance of a planet at a medieval stage of development which is situated in a strategically desirable location.

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Year	Title
1951	Honourable Enemies

Year	Language	Title
1967	Italian	Un cordiale nemico
1970^ⓘTranslated by Frank Straschitz	French	Honorables ennemis
1982^ⓘTranslated by Ingrid Rothmann	German	Viel Feind, viel Ehr!
1984^ⓘTranslated by Ingrid Rothmann	German	Viel Feind', viel Ehr'!
2007^ⓘTranslated by Dietmar Schmidt	German	Ehrenwerte Feinde

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, May 1951	1951-05-00	ed. Robert W. Lowndes	Columbia Publications, Inc.		$0.20^?$: US dollar	100	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	Leo Morey
Future combined with Science Fiction Stories No. 4	1952-06-00	ed. Robert W. Lowndes	Thorpe & Porter		1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	100	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	Leo Morey
Popular Science Fiction, #5 1954	1954-00-00	ed. Ronald Forster	Blue Diamond Publishing		1/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	64	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag
Way Out	1963-12-00	ed. Ivan Howard	Belmont Books	L92-575	$0.50^?$: US dollar	173	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Richard Powers
Agent of the Terran Empire	1965-00-00	Poul Anderson	Chilton		$3.95^?$: US dollar	198	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Roger Hane
Agent of the Terran Empire	1979-08-00	Poul Anderson	Gregg Press	0-8398-2528-5	$12.50^?$: US dollar	[x]+ 213	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Don Carter
Agent of the Terran Empire	1980-01-00	Poul Anderson	Ace Books	0-441-01066-0	$1.95^?$: US dollar	282	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Michael Whelan
Agent of the Terran Empire	1981-00-00	Poul Anderson	Ace Books	0-441-01067-9	$2.25^?$: US dollar	282	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Michael Whelan
Agent of the Terran Empire	1982-08-00	Poul Anderson	Ace Books	0-441-01068-7	$2.50^?$: US dollar	282	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Michael Whelan
Intergalactic Empires	1983-12-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh	Signet / New American Library	0-451-12624-6	$2.95^?$: US dollar	303	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Paul Alexander
Agent of the Terran Empire	1985-03-00	Poul Anderson	Ace Books	0-441-01070-9	$2.95^?$: US dollar	282	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Michael Whelan
Intergalactic Empires	1988-07-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh	Robinson	0-948164-97-2	£2.95^?£: UK pound	303	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Jim Burns
Agent of the Terran Empire	2004-04-00	Poul Anderson	ibooks	0-7434-7952-1	$11.95^?$: US dollar	198	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Ralf Heimisch
Tiger By the Tail!: Two Dominic Flandry Adventures	2009-00-00	Poul Anderson	Science Fiction Classics	978-1-55742-691-8	$2.99^?$: US dollar	62	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire	2010-02-16	Poul Anderson	Baen	978-1-4391-3333-0	$13.00^?$: US dollar	x+ 405	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	David Seeley
Agent of the Terran Empire	2011-10-00	Poul Anderson	Gateway / Orion	978-0-575-10884-4	£4.99^?£: UK pound		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire	2011-11-29	Poul Anderson	Baen	978-1-4516-3767-0	$7.99^?$: US dollar	xii+ 591	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	David Seeley
The Star Beast and Other Tales	2014-01-22	Poul Anderson	Armchair Fiction (Armchair Fiction Masters of Science Fiction #9)	978-1-61287-184-4	$16.95^?$: US dollar	320	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Alex Schomburg
Question and Answer	2017-01-00	Poul Anderson	NESFA Press (The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson #7)	978-1-61037-313-5	$32.00^?$: US dollar	550	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Vincent Di Fate
Agent of the Terran Empire	date unknown	Poul Anderson	Ace Books	0-441-01066-0	$1.95^?$: US dollar	282	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	coll	Michael Whelan
Intergalactic Empires	date unknown	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh	Signet / New American Library	0-451-12624-6	$2.95^?$: US dollar	304	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Paul Alexander

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