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Not to be confused with Poul Andersen, a Danish resistance fighter and publisher. Poul Dalby Andersen ( April 19, 1922 — May 29, 2006) was a printer who served in the Danish resistance movement during World War
Poul Anderson
Pen name A. A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a Pseudonym adopted by an Author or their publishers to conceal their identity A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley[1]
Occupation Novelist, short story author
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Time travel fiction, historical fiction
Influenced

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926–July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Historical fiction is a sub-genre of Fiction that often portrays alternate accounts or dramatization of historical figures or events Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American Science fiction and mainstream author Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The first Golden Age of Science Fiction, often recognized as a period from the late 1930s or early 1940s through to the 1950s was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide Poul Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.

He received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities ( U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He married the former Karen Kruse in 1953. Karen Kruse Anderson (kruːzi born 1932 is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson, and mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to the science fiction author Greg Bear. Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American Science fiction and mainstream author

He was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. Science Fiction Writers of America, or SFWA (ˈsɪfwə or /ˈsɛfwə/ was founded in 1965 by Damon Knight. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

He was also a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. The Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA is the name of a literary group of American fantasy authors active from the 1960s through the 1980s noted Heroic fantasy is a sub-genre of Fantasy literature which chronicles the tales of heroes and their conquests in imaginary lands Linwood Vrooman Carter ( June 9, 1930 - February 7, 1988) was an American author of Science fiction and Fantasy Flashing Swords! was a series of Fantasy anthologies published by Dell Books from 1973 to 1981 under the editorship of Lin Carter.

He was also a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Society for Creative Anachronism (usually shortened to SCA) is a historical re-creation and Living history group founded in 1966 which

He died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.

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Survey of Political, Moral and Literary Themes

Anderson is probably best known for adventure stories in which larger-than-life characters succeed gleefully or fail heroically. He also wrote some quieter works, generally of shorter length, which appeared more during the latter part of his career. However, Anderson was seldom interested in psychological analysis.

Much of his science fiction is thoroughly grounded in science (with the addition of dubious but standard speculations such as faster-than-light travel). A specialty was imagining scientifically plausible non-Earthlike planets. Perhaps the best known was the planet of The Man Who Counts — Anderson adjusted its size and composition so that humans could live in the open air but flying intelligent aliens could evolve, and he explored consequences of these adjustments. His stories often depicted a shipwrecked or stranded hero's struggle to survive in the hostile environment of an alien world through ingenuity and sheer drive.

Space and Liberty

In many stories, Anderson commented on society and politics. Whatever other vicissitudes his views went through, he firmly retained his belief in the direct and inextricable connection between human liberty and expansion into space - for which reason he strongly cried out against any idea of space exploration being "a waste of money" or "unnecessary luxury".

The connection between space flight and freedom is clearly (as is stated explicitly in some of the stories) an extension of the essential Nineteenth Century American concept of the Frontier, where malcontents can always advance further and claim some new land, and pioneers bring life to what were barren asteroids as in "The Tales of the Flying Mountains" or settle on earthlike planets teeming with life but having no native intelligence (for example, "New Europe" in "Star Fox"). A frontier is a Political and Geographical term referring to areas near or beyond a boundary, or of a different nature

As he repeatedly expressed in his nonfiction essays, Anderson firmly held that going into space was not an unnecessary luxury but an existential need, and that abandoning space would doom humanity to "a society of brigands ruling over peasants".

This is graphically expressed in the chilling short story "Welcome" in which humanity abandoned space and as a result ended with an overcrowded Earth where a small elite not only treats all the rest as chattel slaves but also regularly practices cannibalism, its members getting their chefs to prepare "roast suckling coolie" for their banquets. Cannibalism (from Spanish es ''caníbal'' in connection with cannibalism among the Antillean Caribs, also called anthropophagy (from Greek ἄνθρωπος Breastfeeding is the feeding of an Infant or young Child with Breast milk directly from human Breasts, not from a Baby bottle or other Coolie (variously spelled Cooly Kuli Quli Koelie etcis A historical term for manual labourers from Asia particularly China and India, in the 19th

Conversely, in the bleak Orwellian world of "The High Ones" - where the Soviets won the Third World War and gained control of the whole world - the dissidents still have some hope, precisely because space flight has not been abandoned. The adjective Orwellian describes the situation idea or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free-society The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 World War III (also WWIII, or Third World War) denotes a successor to World War II (1939&ndash1945 that would be on a global scale with By the end of the story, rebels have established themselves at another stellar system - where their descendants, the reader is told, would eventually build a liberating fleet and set out back to Earth.

World Government

While naturally horrified by the prospect of the Soviets winning complete rule over the Earth, Anderson was not enthusiastic about having Americans in that role, either. In fact, several stories and books describing the aftermath of a total American victory in the Third World War - such as "Sam Hall" and its loose sequel "Three Worlds to Conquer" as well as "Shield" - are scarcely less bleak than the above-mentioned depictions of a Soviet victory. World War III (also WWIII, or Third World War) denotes a successor to World War II (1939&ndash1945 that would be on a global scale with Like Heinlein in "Solution Unsatisfactory", Anderson assumed that the imposition of an American military rule over the rest of the world would necessarily entail the destruction of American democracy and the imposition of a harsh tyrannical rule over the United States' own citizens. Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7 1907 – May 8 1988 was an American Novelist and Science fiction Writer. Solution Unsatisfactory is a Science fiction Short story by Robert A

Interestingly, both Anderson's depiction of a Soviet-dominated world and that of an American-dominated one mention a rebellion breaking out in Brazil in the early 21st Century, which is in both cases brutally put down by the dominant world power - the Brazilian rebels being characterized as "Counter-Revolutionaries" in the one case and as "Communists" in the other. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld

In the early years of the Cold War - when he had been, as described by his later, more conservative self, a "flaming liberal" - Anderson pinned his hopes on the United Nations developing into a true world government. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security World government is the concept of a political body that would make interpret and enforce International law. This is especially manifest in "Un-man", a future thriller where the Good Guys are agents of the UN Secretary General working to establish a world government while the Bad Guys are nationalists (especially American ones) who seek to preserve their respective nations' sovereignty at all costs. Un-Man is a Science fiction Novella by Poul Anderson that was first published in the January 1953 issue of Astounding Science Fiction The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security World government is the concept of a political body that would make interpret and enforce International law. (The title has a double meaning — the hero is literally a UN man and has superhuman abilities which make his enemies fear him as an "un-man").

In later years Anderson completely repudiated this idea (a half-humorous remnant is the beginning of Tau Zero — a future where the nations of the world entrusted Sweden with overseeing disarmament and found themselves living under the rule of the Swedish Empire). Tau Zero is a Science fiction novel by Poul Anderson. The novel was based upon the short story "To Outlive Eternity" appearing in Galaxy "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. In Star Fox, his unfavorable depiction of a future peace group called "World Militants for Peace" indicates clearly where he stood with regard to the Vietnam War, raging when the book was published. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia A more explicit expression of the same appears in the later The Shield of Time where a time-traveling young American woman from the 1990s pays a brief visit to a university campus of the 1960s and is not enthusiastic about what she sees there.

Libertarianism

Instead of a world government, the above-mentioned "Shield" resolves the problem of an American-dominated world dictatorship in a truly libertarian manner: The protagonist, who is hunted by various power groups for the secret of a personal impregnable force field which he brought from Mars, finally decides to simply reveal it to the entire world, so that every individual could thumb his or her nose at each and every Authority. Libertarianism is a term used by a broad spectrum of political philosophies which prioritize individual Liberty and seek to minimize or even abolish the In Science fiction and Fantasy literature a force field or protective shield is a barrier made up of energy to protect a person area or object from

Anderson often returned to libertarianism (which accounts for his Prometheus Awards) and to the business leader as hero, most notably his character Nicholas van Rijn. Libertarianism is a term used by a broad spectrum of political philosophies which prioritize individual Liberty and seek to minimize or even abolish the The Prometheus Award is an award for Libertarian science fiction novels given out annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society which also publishes a quarterly journal Nicholas van Rijn (2376 to c 2500 AD is a fictional character who plays the central role in the first half of Poul Anderson 's Technic History. Van Rijn is, however, far from the modern type of business executive, being a kind of throwback to the merchant venturer of the Dutch Golden Age of the Seventeenth Century - if he spends any time in boardrooms or plotting corporate takeovers, the reader remains ignorant of it, since virtually all his appearances are in the wild space frontier. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar

Beginning in the 1970s, Anderson's historically grounded works were influenced by the theories of the historian John K. Hord, who argued that all empires follow the same broad cyclical pattern — in which the Terran Empire of the Dominic Flandry spy stories fit neatly. Dominic Flandry is the central character in the second half of Poul Anderson 's Technic History Science fiction. The Genre of spy fiction —sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to Spy-fi —arose before

The writer Sandra Miesel (1978) has argued that Anderson's overarching theme is the struggle against entropy and the heat death of the universe, a condition of perfect uniformity where nothing can happen. Sandra Louise Miesel (born 1941 is a Medievalist and Writer. Her early work was Science fiction and Fantasy criticism fields in which she has In Thermodynamics (a branch of Physics) entropy, symbolized by S, is a measure of the unavailability of a system ’s Energy The heat death is a possible final state of the universe, in which it has " run down " to a state of no Thermodynamic free energy to sustain

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

A nonfiction essay that is embedded in There Will Be Time and attributed to the book's fictional protagonist, but seems to reflect Anderson's own views, sharply criticizes the American Left of 1972 (when it was written) for two instances of a double standard: for neglecting to address human rights violations in the Soviet Union and for failing to notice Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A double standard refers to one class of entities being treated differently from another class of entities and implies an unfair or unjustified differentiation The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics.

References to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict crop up quite frequently in Anderson's fiction, through various analogues and the conflict's past, future, and alternate permutations. Significantly, Anderson's position on the Middle East conflict was considerably more dovish than his stance towards the United States' own wars, such as his the aforementioned support for the military involvement in Vietnam. Consistently, he regarded the conflict as one in which both Israelis and Palestinians have some measure of justice on their side, and Israeli characters often express criticism of their country's policies.

Thus, in the story "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks", the Time Patrol's resident agents in the Tyre of King Hiram are a Twentieth Century Israeli couple, who express their wish to help the ancient Tyrians "in order to compensate a bit for what our country is going to do here". Tyre ( Arabic صور Ṣūr, Phoenician Phoenician wawsvg|12px|ו]] Ṣur, Hebrew Hiram I ( Hebrew: חִירָם "high-born" Standard Hebrew Ḥiram, Tiberian vocalization Ḥîrām) according to (The story was written during the Lebanon War of 1982, when Israeli planes bombed the modern Tyre and caused heavy civilian casualties). Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar)

The aggressive mutants of Dromm in "Inside Straight", who totally subdued their own planet and embarked on interstellar conquest, had started as a persecuted minority. The Dromman character in the story - who is clearly the villain but is nevertheless depicted with considerable empathy - thinks of his people's history of having been the target of "whipped up xenophobia, pogroms and concentration camps", in one of which his own grandfather died. Xenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries A pogrom is a form of Riot directed against a particular group whether ethnic religious or other and characterized by destruction of their Homes Businesses Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people commonly in large groups without trial He also thinks of how angry his people were when an off-world philosopher told them: "Unjust treatment is apt to produce paranoia in the victim. Your race has outlived its oppressors, but not the reflexes they built into your society. Your canalised nervous system make you incapable of regarding anyone else as anything but a dangerous enemy".

"Fire Time" gives the detailed history of a prolonged escalating conflict on a planet colonized simultaneously by humans who call it Mundomar and the nonhuman Naqsans who call it Tseyakka: The historical film of the human leader Sigurdsson declaring the independent republic of Eleutheria in the midst of war is clearly reminiscent of Ben Gurion declaring Israel's independence in 1948; in a later war, the Eleutherians conquer the Naqsan continent of G'yaaru, rename it Sigurdssonia and establish settlements in it. Fire Time is a Science fiction novel by Poul Anderson, first published in 1974 Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

There is in this context a short reappearance of Gunnar Heim, the protagonist of "Star Fox". In the earlier book, Heim personally, as a privateer waging an undeclared war on the Aleriona, forced a reluctant Earth into an all-out war - which Heim felt was needed since the Aleriona were ideologically committed to the universal conquest of everybody else (apparently, in this context, the analogue of Communism - though the Aleriona do not resemble Communists in any particular detail). Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based With regard to Mundomar/Tseyakka, however, the same Heim is the voice of moderation, calling for compromise and coexistence between the two warring parties and strongly condemning the uncritical support of Earth for the aggressive Eleutherians (which seems an analogue of US support of Israel).

In a related story, a group of isolated humans had been living for several generations on an alien planet, on extremely good terms with its non-human inhabitants and without the slightest conflict with them. Nevertheless, the captain of an arriving Earth ship forces them at gunpoint to leave the planet, stating: "Can you speak for your grandchildren and for their grandchildren, for generations which will grow more and more numerous and need more and more land? When my ancestors arrived in Palestine, they did not intend to despose the local Arabs and drive them into refugee camps - but in the end, that's what they did. " (The captain's family name is "Ben Yehuda" - the name of the noted Zionist linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda who had a major share in transforming Hebrew, a purely liturgical language for many centuries, into a spoken language again. For the street named for Eliezer Ben Yehuda in Jerusalem, Israel, see Ben Yehuda Street. )

This is a typical example of Anderson's frequent motif of a tragic conflict - a story with no villains at all, with all protagonists having the best of good intentions and still forced into bitter conflict.

Fairness to the Adversaries

In his numerous books and stories depicting conflict in science-fictional or fantasy settings, Anderson takes trouble to make both sides' points of view comprehensible. Even where there can be no doubt as to whose side the author is on, the antagonists are usually not depicted as villains but as honourable on their own terms. The reader is given access to their thoughts and feelings, and they have often a tragic dignity in defeat. Typical examples are The Winter of the World and The People of the Wind.

A common theme in Anderson's works, and one with obvious origins in the Northern European legends, is that doing the "right" (wisest) thing often involves performing actions that, at face value, seem dishonorable, illegal, destructive, or downright evil. The Man who Counts, Nicholas van Rijn is "The Man" because he is prepared to be tyrannical and callously manipulative so that he and his companions can survive. In "High Treason" the protagonist disobeys orders and betrays his subordinates to prevent a war crime that would bring severe retribution upon Humanity. In A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Dominic Flandry first (effectively) lobotomizes his own son and then bombards the home planet of the Chereionite race in order to do his duty and prop up the Terran empire. These actions affect their characters in different ways, and dealing with the repercussions of having done the "right" (but unpleasant) thing is often the major focus of his short stories. The general lesson seems to be that guilt is the penalty for action.

In Star Fox, a relationship of grudging respect is built up between the hero, space privateer Gunnar Heim, and his enemy Cynbe — an exceptionally gifted member of the Alerione, trained from a young age to understand his species' human enemies to the point of being alienated from his own kind. In the final scene, Cynbe challenges Heim to a space battle which only one of them would survive. Heim accepts, whereupon Cynbe says, "I thank you, my brother. "

Underestimating "Primitives" as a Costly Mistake

Anderson set much of his work in the past, often with the addition of magic, or in alternate or future worlds that resemble past eras. A specialty was his ancestral Scandinavia, as in his novel versions of the legends of Hrólf Kraki (Hrolf Kraki's Saga) and Haddingus (The War of the Gods). Terminology and usage As a cultural term "Scandinavia" has no official definition and is subject to usage by those who identify with the culture in question as well Hrólfr Kraki, Hroðulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage (early 6th century) was a Legendary Danish king who appears both in Hrolf Kraki's Saga is a Fantasy Novel by Poul Anderson. It was first published by Ballantine Books as the sixty-second volume Main article Haddingjar. Hadingus was one of the earliest Legendary Danish kings according to Saxo Grammaticus ' Frequently he presented such worlds as superior to the dull, over-civilized present. Notable depictions of this superiority are the prehistoric world of "The Long Remembering", the quasi-medieval society of "No Truce with Kings", and the untamed Jupiter of "Call me Joe" and Three Worlds to Conquer. "Call me Joe" (1957 is a science fiction story by Poul Anderson. He handled the lure and power of atavism satirically in "Pact", critically in "The Queen of Air and Darkness" and The Night Face, and tragically in "Goat Song".

In many stories, a representative of a technologically advanced society underestimates "primitives" and pays a high price for it. In The High Crusade, aliens who land in medieval England in the expectation of an easy conquest find that they are not immune to swords and arrows. The High Crusade is a science-fiction Novel by American writer Poul Anderson. In "The Only Game in Town", a Mongol warrior, while not knowing that the two "magicians" he meets are time travellers from the future, correctly guesses their intentions — and captures them with the help of the "magic" flashlight they had given him in an attempt to impress him. In another time-travel tale, The Shield of Time, a "time policeman" from the Twentieth Century, equipped with information and technologies from much further in the future, is outwitted by a medieval knight and barely escapes with his life. Yet another story, The Man Who Came Early, features a 20th-century United States Army soldier stationed in Iceland who is transported to the tenth century. " The Man Who Came Early " is a Science fiction Short story by Danish - American author Poul Anderson. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland ( ( Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland ( Although he is full of ideas, his lack of practical knowledge of how to implement them and his total unfamiliarity with the technology of the period lead to his downfall.

Anderson wrote "Uncleftish Beholding" on the lore of our times with Germanic-rooted words only. Uncleftish Beholding is a short text written by Poul Anderson. Fitting his love for olden years, this kind of learned writing has been named after him as Ander-Saxon. Anglish is a form of Constrained writing in English in which words with Greek, Latin, and Romance roots are replaced by Germanic

Tragic Conflicts

The story told in The Shield of Time is also an example of a tragic conflict, another common theme in Anderson's writing. The knight tries to do his best in terms of his own society and time, but his actions might bring about a horrible Twentieth Century (even more horrible than the one we know). Therefore, the Time Patrol protagonists, who like the young knight and wish him well (the female protagonist comes close to falling in love with him), have no choice but to fight and ultimately kill him.

In "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" a time-travelling American anthropologist is assigned to study an ancient Gothic tribe and study its culture by regular visits every few decades. The Goths ( Gothic: Gothic usvg|14px|u]]Gothic asvg|14px|a]]Gothic s Gradually he is drawn into close involvement, feeling protective towards the Goths (many of them his own descendants, following a brief and poignant liaison with a Gothic girl who died in childbirth) - and they identify him as the god Odin/Wodan. Odin (ˈoʊdɪn from Old Norse Óðinn) is considered the chief god in Norse paganism. Wōden is a god in Anglo-Saxon paganism, together with Norse Odin representing a development of a Proto-Germanic god * Wōdanaz Then he finds that he must cruelly betray his beloved Goths, since an ancient ballad says that Odin did so - and that failure to fulfill his prescribed role might change history and bring the whole of the Twentieth Century as we know it crashing down. In the final scene he cries out in anguish: "Not even the Gods can defy the Norns!" - giving a new twist to this central aspect of the Norse religion. The Norns ( Old Norse: norn, plural nornir) are a kind of Dísir, numerous female beings who rule the fates of the various races of Norse Norse paganism is a term used to describe the religious traditions which were common amongst the Germanic tribes living in Nordic countries prior to and

In "The Pirate", the hero is duty-bound to deny a band of people from societies blighted by poverty the chance for a new start on a new planet — because their settling the planet would eradicate the remnants of the artistic and articulate beings who lived there before. The Pirate is a Science fiction Short story by Poul Anderson that first appeared in the October 1968 issue of Analog A similar theme but with much higher stakes appears in "Sister Planet": although terraforming Venus would provide new hope to starving people on the overcrowded Earth, it would exterminate Venus's just-discovered intelligent race — and the hero can avert genocide only by murdering his best friends. The terraforming (literally "Earth-shaping" of a Planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its The VENUS ( V ictoria E xperimental N etwork U nder the S ea project is a cabled sea floor observatory operated by the University

In "Delenda Est" the stakes are the highest imaginable. Delenda Est is a Short story written by Poul Anderson, within his Time Patrol ( 1960) series Time-travelling outlaws have created a new 20th Century — "not better or worse, just completely different". The hero can fight the outlaws and restore his (and our) familiar history — but only at the price of totally destroying the world which has taken its place. "Risking your neck to in order to negate a world full of people like yourself" is how the hero describes what he eventually undertakes.

Awards

Partial bibliography (book-length works only)

Science fiction

Hoka

Reissued by Baen as:

The Psychotechnic League

Tomorrow's Children

Technic History

Polesotechnic League period of Nicholas van Rijn

(by internal chronology):

Terran Empire period of Dominic Flandry

(by internal chronology):

Time Patrol

The shorter works in the series have been collected numerous times over the years, in Guardians of Time (1960, contains 1, 2, 4 and 5; expanded 1981 edition adds 3), Time Patrolman (1983, contains 6 and 7), Annals of the Time Patrol (1983, contains 1-7), The Time Patrol (1991, contains 1-9), and Time Patrol (2006, contains 1-9 and 11).

History of Rustum

Maurai

  • "Ghetto" (1954)
  • "The Sky People" (1959)
  • "Progress" (1961)
  • "The Horn of Time the Hunter" (also known as "Homo Aquaticus", 1963)
  • "Windmill" (1973)

Kith

The Kith, a persecuted starfaring civilization, is featured in:

  • "Ghetto" (1954)
  • "The Horn of Time the Hunter" (also known as "Homo Aquaticus", 1963)
  • The novel Starfarers (1998)

Harvest of Stars

Other novels

NOTE: One of the characters in this novel, Leonce, is from the Maurai culture, as noted in the book. Tau Zero is a Science fiction novel by Poul Anderson. The novel was based upon the short story "To Outlive Eternity" appearing in Galaxy She is from a much earlier era than the Maurai stories, however.

Collections

Fantasy

King of Ys

Operation Otherworld

Other novels

NOTE: One character who appears in this novel is Valeria Matucheck, eldest daughter of Steve and Ginny Matuchek, protagonists of "Operation Chaos" and "Operation Luna". Karen Kruse Anderson (kruːzi born 1932 is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson, and mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear. Operation Chaos is a 1971 Science fiction / Fantasy Fixup Novel by Poul Anderson. Operation Luna is the 2000 sequel to the 1971 Fixup Novel Operation Chaos by Poul Anderson. The Broken Sword is a Fantasy Novel written by the American writer Poul Anderson in 1954 Three Hearts and Three Lions is a 1961 Fantasy novel by Poul Anderson. Hrolf Kraki's Saga is a Fantasy Novel by Poul Anderson. It was first published by Ballantine Books as the sixty-second volume A Midsummer Tempest is an 1974 alternate history fantasy novel by Poul Anderson. Though written between these two books, "A Midsummer Tempest" takes place after both. Holger Carlsen, of Three Hearts and Three Lions, also appears.

Historical novels

The Last Viking

Other novels

Anthologies

Non-Fiction

Fictional appearances

Philip K. Dick's story Waterspider features Poul Anderson as one of the main characters. Philip Kindred Dick (December 16 – March 2) was an American Science fiction Novelist and Short story Writer. Waterspider is a Science fiction short story by Philip K Dick.

References

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