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"Christopher Anvil" is a pseudonym used by author Harry C. Crosby (1922-2009).

Harry Crosby's first published short story was "Cinderella, Inc.", which appeared in the December 1952 issue of Imagination. By 1956, he had adopted the pseudonym and was being published in Astounding Magazine. His first published book was The Day the Machines Stopped (1964). He is best known for his Federation of Humanity series, which he referred to as the Colonization Series before they were published as collections. Most of his published works are short stories, and he has also produced four novels.

American writer (1925-2009)

Born	1922
Died	2009

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Pandora’s Planet

by Christopher Anvil First published in 1956 — 5 editions
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Election day 2084: a science fiction anthology on the politics of the future

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Hebert, John Jakes, Frederik Pohl, Michael Shaara, Barry N. Malzberg, Randall Garrett, and 9 others First published in 1984 — 4 editions
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Hallucination Orbit: psychology in science fiction

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Jerome Bixby, Roald Dahl, J. T. McIntosh, Donald E. Westlake, Christopher Anvil, Robert Silverberg, and 6 others First published in 1983 — 3 editions
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The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun

by Christopher Anvil First published in 1980 — 3 editions

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Space mail

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Chandler Davis, Patricia Nurse, Ray Russell, William Sambrot, Judith Merril, and 15 others First published in 1980 — 3 editions

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Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity (Federation of Man)

by Christopher Anvil First published in 2005 — 2 editions

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Pandora's Legions

by Christopher Anvil First published in 2002 — 2 editions
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Rx for Chaos

by Christopher Anvil First published in 2009 — 2 editions
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Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 24 (1962)

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, J. G. Ballard, James White, R. A. Lafferty, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber, Mark Clifton, Theodore L. Thomas, and 6 others First published in 1992 — 2 editions

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Isaac Asimov presents the great SF stories, 25 (1963)

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Fred Saberhagen, Christopher Anvil, John Brunner, Poul Anderson, Clifford D. Simak, Bruce McAllister, Hal Clement, and 6 others First published in 1992 — 2 editions
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Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 22 (1960)

by Martin H. Greenberg, Isaac Asimov, Fritz Leiber, Frederik Pohl, Ward Moore, Richard McKenna, Rick Raphael, Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Arthur C. Clarke, and 5 others First published in 1991 — 2 editions

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Starships

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Cordwainer Smith, Richard McKenna, Robert Sheckley, Christopher Anvil, Doris Pitkin Buck, Frank M. Robinson, and 6 others First published in 1983 — 2 editions
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Isaac Asimov Science Fiction 5

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Ron Goulart, Larry Niven, Christopher Anvil, Edward Wellen, Harry Harrison, Larry Eisenberg, and 6 others First published in 1986 — 2 editions

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Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Edmond Hamilton, Brian W. Aldiss, Mark Clifton, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, and 31 others First published in 1980 — 2 editions

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Science Fiction A to Z

by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Tom Godwin, Roger Zelazny, Alan Dean Foster, Richard Matheson, Fredric Brown, L. Sprague De Camp, and 44 others First published in 1982 — 2 editions
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Day the Machines Stopped

by Christopher Anvil First published in 1964 — 1 edition

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Interstellar patrol

by Christopher Anvil First published in 2003 — 1 edition
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Interstellar Patrol (The Interstellar Patrol Series)

by Christopher Anvil First published in 2004 — 1 edition

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The Trouble with Aliens

by Christopher Anvil First published in 2006 — 1 edition
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The Trouble with Humans

by Christopher Anvil First published in 2007 — 1 edition
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American writer (1925-2009)

Born	1922
Died	2009

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OLID: OL1391454A
BookBrainz: 31cb8148-ca51-4c72-a5ed-80ad58cd4c3a
ISNI: 000000005191521X
Library of Congress Names: n2003033418
LibriVox: 17427
Project Gutenberg: 46334
VIAF: 69456181
Wikidata: Q2966551
Inventaire.io: wd:Q2966551

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Harry C. Crosby

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