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The Longest Voyage

Poul Anderson

First published December 1960
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

On a distant planet populated by humans, a sailing ship from a culture going through an analog of Europe's Age of Exploration encounters a culture similar to earth's aboriginal island dwellers, and learns they have a legend about a demigod who came to them from the stars and still lives among them.

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1961 Hugo Award Best Short Fiction Winner

Publications (38)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
December 1960 Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, December 1960 Street & Smith Publications, Inc. MAGAZINE 8
April 1961 Analog Science Fact -> Fiction, April 1961 Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd MAGAZINE 4
1962 The Hugo Winners Doubleday Anthology |10
1962 The Hugo Winners Doubleday Anthology |10
December 1962 The Hugo Winners Doubleday / SFBC Anthology 279
1963 The Hugo Winners Dennis Dobson Anthology |10
1964 The Hugo Winners Avon Anthology 281
1964 The Hugo Winners Avon Anthology 281
October 1964 The Hugo Winners Penguin Books Anthology 301
1968 The Hugo Winners Penguin Books Anthology |10
January 1972 The Hugo Winners, Volumes One and Two Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Omnibus 236
April 1973 The Hugo Winners, Volume 1 Fawcett Crest Anthology 281
1974 The Hugo Winners, Volume 1 Fawcett Crest Anthology 281
June 1974 The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson Chilton Collection 170
June 1975 The Book of Poul Anderson DAW Books Collection 153
June 1975 The Book of Poul Anderson DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Collection 153
August 1976 The Best of Poul Anderson Pocket Books Collection 3
June 1978 The Book of Poul Anderson DAW Books Collection 153
December 1978 The Book of Poul Anderson DAW Books Collection 153
August 1979 The Best of Poul Anderson Pocket Books Collection 3
August 1979 The Best of Poul Anderson Pocket Books Collection 3
October 1979 The Hugo Winners Fawcett Crest Anthology 281
December 1980 The Analog Anthology #1 Davis Publications Anthology 261
1981 Analog's Golden Anniversary Anthology The Dial Press Anthology 261
1981 The Hugo Winners Fawcett Crest Anthology 281
August 1981 Winners Tor / Pinnacle Collection 97
1982 Fifty Years of the Best Science Fiction from Analog Davis Publications Anthology 261
October 1983 The Book of Poul Anderson DAW Books Collection 153
February 1991 The Longest Voyage / Slow Lightning Tor Anthology 3
February 1994 Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction St. Martin's Press Anthology 65
February 1994 Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction St. Martin's Press / SFBC Anthology 65
July 1994 The Mammoth Book of Contemporary SF Masters Robinson Anthology 65
September 1994 Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction St. Martin's Press Anthology
April 2000 Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons St. Martin's Griffin Anthology 90
May 2000 Exploring the Horizons: Explorers, and the Furthest Horizon Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus 91
August 2002 Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons Anthology 90
September 2009 The Queen of Air and Darkness NESFA Press Collection 114
October 2014 Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction St. Martin's Press Anthology