"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 my own name right, and I got my back up about it. Th...

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 but returned with them to the United States after the ou...

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 writing science fiction that is well-grounded in scient...

1. Introducing Avatars AVATARA-Sanskrit.; ava-"down," tarati-"he goes, passes beyond," literally, "a descent" (OED), a conception described in the Bhagavad Gita, 4th Teaching, 1-8 where Krishna confides: "when goodness grows weak, when evil increases, I make myself a body." Originally referring to the...

CHORUS: I've got the Avatar Blues! It seems they all want me to lose My last little bit of Sanity! Why can't they just let me be? Everybody's looking near and far For the latest and the greatest...

You can always spot the novices in the virtual reality world of "Second Life": Their online characters — or avatars — stumble around awkwardly and walk into objects, as their real-world users fumble with the keyboard controls.Now, technology from Japan could help make navigating online...

All roads lead to Rome, even virtual ones.A museum on Tuesday unveiled a virtual reconstruction of one of the bustling arteries that led into ancient Rome, allowing visitors to wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city's political elite.Using a concept similar to that...