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)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Interstellar Patrol II (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Day The Machines Stopped (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pandora's Planet (1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Warlord's World (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pandora's Legions (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trouble with Aliens (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trouble with Humans (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Prescription for Chaos/Rx for Chaos (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Strangers In Paradise (1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
War Games (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Power of Illusion (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Mind Partner and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy(1961)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, February 1964(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 1964(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog 3(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, January 1965(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1965 July(1965)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction And Fact, March 1967(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1967(1967)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1968(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 1969(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine, February 1988(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The World Turned Upside Down(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Note: Prescription for Chaos was also published as Rx for Chaos.

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