The 12th volume of the collected works of Poul Anderson includes the 2nd book of the “Technical History” series, which includes two novels about star traders.

An urgent task interrupts David Faulkain, a confidant of himself, from his rest powerful galactic merchant Nicholas van Rijn. There's more at stake than fortunes—the fates of entire planets. But in order to take control of the wandering planet Satan's World, you need to win the war - or prevent it. The World of Satan is an ideal place for transmutation factories; this world is claimed not only by League traders, but also by a mysterious race of minotaur-like Shen, who are ready to start an interstellar war for its sake... (“Satanic Games”)* * *The Trade and Technical League falls apart, torn by internal contradictions . And the difficult task falls on the shoulders of Nicholas van Rijn and David Falkein - to preserve what the League has created until the era of decline gives way to a new rise... (“The Abode of Darkness”)

Contents Satanic Games (translation by K. Korolev) Abode darkness (translation by A. Sharov)