Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 3: Cosmic Knights (1985)

Although Asimov doesn't give us a story of his own for the collection,his introduction takes us on a quick tour of the knights of yore and his rather jaundiced view of them (to put it politely).

Although knights and their deed tend to be dealt with by fantasy writers when we aren't talking history, the great majority of the stories here are science fiction based, from John T Phillefent's rather humourous 'The Stainless Steel Knight' (and cleaned up version if you've read the original), all the way through to Keith Laumer's Retief story 'Diplomat-At-Arms' which is probably the most serious entry in the anthology. Rather surprisingly, the Poul Anderson contribution wasn't a Flandry story, but a rather weird tale of a computer controlled chess game. ( )

Collection of Fantasy and Scifi stories about "Knights" - volume 3