The winner of several Nebula and Hugo awards, Poul Anderson is a prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy with well over one hundred novels and short story collections to his credit. Known for w...
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"Although I was born in the USA, my parents were from Scandinavia, and named me for a grandfather; hence the spelling. This was in 1926.""In grade school the teachers kept telling me I wasn't spelling...
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Shortly after Poul Anderson's birth, his father, an engineer, moved the family to Texas, where they lived for over ten years. Following Anton Anderson's death his widow took her children to Denmark bu...
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Critical Essay by Theodore Sturgeon
Poul Anderson's beefy, beery, big-brained van Rijn, merchant adventurer extraordinary, stars in three long novelettes [in Trader to the Stars]—good o...
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Critical Essay by Roger Baker
Poul Anderson's future [in The Enemy Stars] bears no resemblance to anything. This could be a less than admirable example of his work, for he is renowned among sc...
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Critical Essay by Sandra Miesel
It is not enough for [Anderson] to merely state the problem of mortal man in a finite universe. His concern lies with the effects of the problem: how should mortal man...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Jonas
For the science-fiction or fantasy writer, the rules governing the genre serve as a reminder of the importance of discipline; without discipline, imaginative literature...
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Critical Essay by Poul Anderson
[There] is a basic attitude, I suppose, which underlies my writing—namely, that this is a wonderful universe in which to live, that it's great to be aliv...
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Critical Essay by Joanna Russ
"It was a brutal age," says Anderson defensively in his afterword about the 9th-century setting [of his novel The Demon of Scattery]. Then why write about ...
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Poul Anderson liked to keep his work simple. That way, he said, he could devote more time to pleasing his readers. In his stories, Anderson created technologically advanced worlds. Yet the world An...
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Critical Essay by Theodore Sturgeon
Poul Anderson's Literature Was Out Of This World
