Order of Christopher Anvil Books
Christopher Anvil is the pen name of American author Harry Christopher Crosby (1925-2009), best known for his science fiction short stories. His stories often appeared in Astounding Magazine due to the fact that he could write a plot that was a favourite of editor John W. Campbell – aliens who had superior firepower being defeated due to superior intelligence and ingenuity of humans.
Harry Christopher Crosby first got published in the December 1952 issue of Imagination with the short story Pandora’s Planet (later expanded into a novel). He would start using the pen name Christopher Anvil in 1956, when he first started getting published in Astounding Magazine. His first novel was The Day the Machines Stopped, published in 1964. Below is a list of Christopher Anvil’s books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Intersellar Patrol/Federation Of Humanity Books
| Interstellar Patrol | (2003) |    |
| Interstellar Patrol II | (2005) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Day The Machines Stopped | (1964) | |
| Pandora's Planet | (1972) | |
| Warlord's World | (1975) | |
| The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun | (1980) | |
| Pandora's Legions | (2002) | |
| The Trouble with Aliens | (2006) | |
| The Trouble with Humans | (2007) | |
| Prescription for Chaos/Rx for Chaos | (2009) | |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Strangers In Paradise | (1969) | |
| War Games | (2008) | |
| The Power of Illusion | (2010) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Mind Partner and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy | (1961) | |
| Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1965 July | (1965) | |
| Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969 | (1969) | |
| Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, February 1988 | (1988) | |
| The World Turned Upside Down | (2005) | |
Note: Prescription for Chaos was also published as Rx for Chaos.
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