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Anderson, Poul. "How to Build a Planet." In Turning Points: Essays on the Art of Science Fiction. Edited by Damon Knight. New York: Harper and Row, 1977. Anderson explains how to create believable planet for science fiction.

——. "Science Fiction and History." Amazing Stories 63 (January 1989): 4349. Anderson here discusses how the past may be used to suggest possible futures.

"Anderson, Poul." In Contemporary Authors. Vol. 34. Edited by James G. Lesniak. Detroit: Gale, 1991: 17-21.

Lists Anderson's writings and awards, with a summary of critical opinion about Anderson's work.

Beetz, Kirk H. "Poul Anderson." In Beacham's Popular Fiction in America. Edited by Walton Beacham and Suzanne Niemeyer. Washington, DC: Beacham Publishing, 1986: 27-35.

Summarizes Anderson's career and critical reception up to 1986 and provides close analyses of Trader to the Stars, The Avatar, and The Queen of Air...
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