No Truce with Kings

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"No Truce With Kings"
Author	Poul Anderson
Genre(s)	Science fiction
Publisher	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Publication date	1963

"No Truce With Kings" is a science fiction short story by Poul Anderson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1964.

[edit] Plot summary

In a post-apocalyptic United States the Pacific States of America are convulsed by a bloody civil war backed on one side by the "Espers", a movement that claims its followers can achieve great psychic powers. However the Espers are just a front for an even more unusual group.

[edit] Awards

v • d • e Hugo Award for Best Short Story (1961-1980)

1961–1970	The Longest Voyage by Poul Anderson (1961) · Hothouse by Brian W. Aldiss (1962) · The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance (1963) · No Truce with Kings by Poul Anderson (1964) · Soldier, Ask Not by Gordon R. Dickson (1965) · "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison (1966) · Neutron Star by Larry Niven (1967) · I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (1968) · The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World by Harlan Ellison (1969) · Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones by Samuel R. Delany (1970)

1971–1980	Slow Sculpture by Theodore Sturgeon (1971) · Inconstant Moon by Larry Niven (1972) · Eurema's Dam by R. A. Lafferty and The Meeting by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (1973) · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) · The Hole Man by Larry Niven (1975) · Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber (1976) · Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman (1977) · Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison (1978) · Cassandra by C. J. Cherryh (1979) · The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R. R. Martin (1980)

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