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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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...
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Hamburg (dpa) - A page at eBay looks like a shop window on a high
street with some pretty strange people outside when web users have a
free program, Weblin, installed.
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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 rebui...
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German authorities are trying to uncover the identity of a person who's offering child pornography in the virtual world of "Second Life."A German, whose avatar _ or online character _ is a 13-year-...
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A little more than a week into Michael Bloomberg’s pseudo-campaign for president, the inevitable backlash has begun. In accordance with the conventions of counterintuition, the on-second-thou...
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Kevin Alderman didn't bring sex to "Second Life." He just made it better.The 46-year-old entrepreneur recognized four years ago that people would pay to equip their online selves _ which start out ...
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Kevin Alderman didn't bring sex to "Second Life." He just made it better. The 46-year-old entrepreneur recognized four years ago that people would pay to equip their online selves _ which start out...
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So where do you find Truly Weird America these days? Does the “Ghost World” exist any more?
The Old, Weird America: That was the title of Greil Marcus’ admirably eccentric and il...
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So where do you find Truly Weird America these days? Does the “Ghost World” exist any more?The Old, Weird America: That was the title of Greil Marcus’ admirably eccentric and illu...
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At 2 months old, little Luke Saghir looked every bit the quintessential Park Slope pipsqueak as he lolled on his dad’s lap during a recent family outing to the neighborhood milking hole, the ...
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Poul Anderson
Poul (William) Anderson
Making 'Second Life' more like real life
