Operation Afreet (1956) [Short Story]
by Poul Anderson
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Summary
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In a World where Magic and Magical Creatures are tools of war just as much as bombs and bullets, a werewolf and a witch have to cancel out the Caliphate's greatest advantage to win back the advantage for the forces of the west.
Published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1956.
Reprinted in:
- Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment, ed. David G. Hartwell, SFBC 1988
- The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (1994)
- Tomorrow Bites, ed. Greg Cox & T. K. F. Weisskopf, Baen 1995
- The Fantasy Hall of Fame (1998)
Original title: Operation Afreet
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988) [Anthology]
Authors: L. Frank Baum
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, Charles Dickens
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Robert A. Heinlein
, Mark Twain
, Samuel R. Delany
, Lord Dunsany
, Michael Moorcock
, Poul Anderson
, L. Sprague de Camp
, Fritz Leiber
, Fletcher Pratt
, Abraham Merritt
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Gene Wolfe
, Wyman Guin
, Joanna Russ
, John Collier
, Elizabeth A. Lynn
, Saki
, Anthony Boucher
, Frank R. Stockton
, William Morris
, Horace Walpole
, Lucy Lane Clifford
, Kenneth Morris
, Sara Coleridge
, Margaret St. Clair
, Stephen Vincent Benét
, Christopher Pearce Cranch
Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, the (1994) [Anthology]
Authors: Terry Pratchett
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Ray Bradbury
, Tanith Lee
, Lord Dunsany
, John Brunner
, Keith Roberts
, Lucius Shepard
, Mervyn Peake
, Peter S. Beagle
, Poul Anderson
, Larry Niven
, Jack Vance
, James Tiptree, Jr.
, Sterling E. Lanier
, Robert E. Howard
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Abraham Merritt
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Jane Yolen
, Manly Wade Wellman
, Robert Holdstock
, John Buchan
, Angela Carter
, Phyllis Eisenstein
, Richard Garnett
, Thomas Burnett Swann
Fantasy Hall of Fame, the (1998) [Anthology]
Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin
, Roger Zelazny
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, Robert A. Heinlein
, Shirley Jackson
, Harlan Ellison
, Tanith Lee
, Lucius Shepard
, Peter S. Beagle
, Poul Anderson
, James Blish
, L. Sprague de Camp
, Jack Vance
, Clifford D. Simak
, Fritz Leiber
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Robert Bloch
, Robert Silverberg
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, J. G. Ballard
, Gene Wolfe
, Jorge Luis Borges
, R. A. Lafferty
, Anthony Boucher
, Horace. L. Gold
, Terry Bisson
, Margaret St. Clair
, Ted Chiang
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