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  Poul Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was a prolific science fiction author of the genre's Golden Age; some of his short stories were first published using the pseudonyms "A. Craig", "Michael Karageorge", and "Winston P. Sanders".
Anderson is probably best known for adventure stories in which larger-than-life characters succeed gleefully or fail heroically.
Fitting Anderson's love for olden years, Ander-Saxon, a form of technical writing using only words with Germanic roots, is named after him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poul_Anderson   (995 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
With a career spanning more than 50 years, Anderson was considered one of the best writers in the genre, having penned hundreds of short stories and dozens of novels; more than 100 of his novels and short-story collections have been published.
Anderson was a former president of the SFWA and guest of honor at the World Science Fiction Convention.
Anderson is survived by his wife and writing partner, Karen; his daughter, Astrid; brother, John; two grandchildren; two nieces; and SF writer Greg Bear, his son-in-law.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2001-08/01/10.45.books   (469 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson's Tau Zero is an outstanding work of science fiction, in part because it combines two qualities that are often at odds in this genre: an interest in the emotional lives of its characters and a fascination with all things technological and scientific.
Poul Anderson himself has put together a retrospective collection of his recent writings, fiction and nonfiction, under the title All One Universe.
The late Poul Anderson, who died in 2001, was one of the giants of science fiction and winner of seven Hugo Awards, the field's highest honor.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/PoulAndersoneBooks.htm   (912 words)

  
 Poul Anderson (1926-2001) - SFWA News
Poul Anderson's first story was published in 1947, while he was attending the University of Minnesota.
Poul was a former President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention, the winner of three Nebula Awards and seven Hugo Awards.
Poul became president of the fledgling SFWA soon after I joined in 1969, and I got to know him a bit, serving as his Grievance Committee chairman.
www.sfwa.org /news/panderson.htm   (1386 words)

  
 BBC News | ARTS | Sci-fi master Anderson dies
Anderson, who wrote futuristic tales with a moral edge, was a former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and winner of three Nebula Awards and seven Hugo Awards.
Anderson was born in Pennsylvania in 1926, grew up in Minnesota and Texas and published his first story in 1947 which a student at the University of Minnesota.
Anderson was a Grandmaster of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and in 2000 was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/1471603.stm   (478 words)

  
 Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson is remembered as one of the most imaginative and hugely prolific authors of science fiction’s Golden Age, yet his solid body of work spans several decades beyond.
Anderson paints a future in which Earth’s sentient creatures emerge from the effects of such an inhibiting field, to find themselves quickly evolving, and rendering obsolete the customs and assumptions of countless millennia.
Poul Anderson was a former President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (1972), Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention, and the winner of three Nebula Awards and seven Hugo Awards.
www.nndb.com /people/744/000023675   (472 words)

  
 Poul Anderson In Hospice Care [Free Republic]
Poul Anderson has left Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley and is in hospice care at the Anderson home in Orinda.
Poul, not unexpectedly, has shown courage in the face of what was not, at the beginning, inevitable, but extremely difficult.
Poul Anderson is among the best of them and I thank him for his gifts to me even though he didn't know I existed.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b66f7f063f8.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Poul Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Poul Anderson is one of those writers who's been around a long time and picked up critical acclaim and awards left, right and centre.
In fact Anderson sacrifices one of their number (there are only nine altogether), although it must be said that he looked to be heading for the chop from the outset.
I would like to see Anderson exploring the historical fantasy vein of which this novel shows him to be a potential master.
homepage.eircom.net /~albedo1/html/poul_anderson.html   (315 words)

  
 Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson was one of science fiction's most famous, respected and prolific writers.
Anderson's magnum opus, however, might well be his future history of the next billion years; the concluding volume, Genesis, won the 1999 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Anderson was repeatedly honored by the science fiction community, serving as president of the Science Fiction Writers of America for 1972-73, and receiving seven Hugo awards, three Nebula awards and the Gandalf (Grand Master) Award for 1977.
www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=60   (250 words)

  
 SPACELIGHT: Anderson, Poul - personal data
Poul believed that men, and those who aspired to that title, were born with obligations and had a duty to fulfill those obligations...no matter the cost, no matter the time, and could not find honor by doing otherwise.
Anderson's first story, "Tomorrow's Children," was published in Astounding SF in 1947...a year before he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in physics.
Moskowitz said in Seekers of Tomorrow (1961+) that "Anderson's interest in using historical cultures as the background for his science fiction has given him the stature in the field that his previous diversity of effort did not bring him." Anderson was also working in other fields that included non-fiction, historical sagas, and mysteries.
www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/anderson.html   (528 words)

  
 Poul Anderson, honored writer of science fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Orinda -- Poul Anderson, the respected science fiction author who published his first story in the late 1940s and was still winning awards for new work as recently as last month, died Tuesday at his home in Orinda of kidney failure brought on by prostate cancer.
Anderson served as president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 1972 and 1973.
Anderson is survived by his wife, a daughter, a brother and two grandchildren.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/03/MNL212244.DTL   (420 words)

  
 Locus Online News August 2001: Poul Anderson dies
Poul Anderson, 74, died around midnight, July 31st at his home in Orinda, California (near San Francisco) from the effects of prostate cancer.
Anderson was one of the most famous and respected writers of SF and fantasy.
Anderson is survived by his wife and writing partner Karen, daughter Astrid and son-in-law Greg Bear, brother John, grandchildren Erik and Alexandra, and nieces Janet and Cathy.
www.locusmag.com /2001/News/News08a.html   (358 words)

  
 The Templeton Gate - Authors - Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson (1926-2001) - born in Pennsylvania of Scandanavian lineage, he lived for a short period of time in Denmark before WW 2, and resided in California with his wife (and sometimes writing partner) Karen until his recent death of prostate cancer.
Anderson is the recipient of seven Hugo awards, as well as three Nebulas, all for novella-length and shorter works, although quite a few of his novels have been nominated.
Anderson almost lost me a couple of times in this book in his attempted discussions of the physics involved in the starship drive engines, but redeemed the tale with a counterpoint analysis of the emotional effects on the ship's crew members.
templetongate.tripod.com /anderson.htm   (1659 words)

  
 Time Travel and Poul Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In "Time Patrol" by Poul Anderson, a man from our future travels to post-Roman Britain in order to change the course of history but is apprehended by the Time Patrol, a time travelling organisation that prevents other time travellers from either accidentally or deliberately changing the past.
Anderson was a serious writer who enjoyed action-adventure so much that he sometimes introduced it into stories that would have been better without it.
Poul Anderson, "Brave To Be A King" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1955), reprinted in Anderson, Guardians of Time and The Time Patrol, pp.
www.paulshackley.com /timetravelandpoulanderson.htm   (9622 words)

  
 Religion in the fiction of Poul Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Anderson has linked characters from several of his series in the taproom of The Old Phoenix, and there Holger Carlsen meets Prince Rupert of the Rhine, hero of A Midsummer Tempest.
Anderson does not care for the Puritans, but his protrayal of their Anglican opponents, including Rupert, shows that he is not hostile to Christianity as a whole.
The universe of Anderson's hero Dominic Flandry is a science fiction version of the late Roman Empire, with Flandry clearly conscious of the impending fall.
www.winternet.com /~gmcdavid/html_dir/anderson.html   (1619 words)

  
 Fantasy, Poul Anderson, a biography - king of ys
The american Poul (William) Anderson (1926-2001) was one of those authors who both wrote fantasy and SF.
Poul Andersons most famous tale of fantasy: "The King of Ys" did he write together with his wife Karen Anderson.
The books are based on a legend about the town Ys, and tells a story about the Romans and their fight with the free northern countries during the 5th century.
www.edlin.org /sf/eng/november   (256 words)

  
 For Love and Glory by Poul Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As he says in the introduction, the basic setting was not unique, and Anderson has re-imagined it into a world of his own.
Anderson has added enough twists and convolutions to a basic SF formula to fill a Robert-Jordan-sized series.
This last Anderson novel may not be a classic, like Star Fox or Tau Zero, nonetheless it is an entertaining novel by one of the grand masters of science fiction.
www.scifidimensions.com /May03/loveandglory.htm   (473 words)

  
 Alibris: Poul Anderson
The late Poul Anderson, who died in 2001, was one of the giants of science fiction and winner of 7 Hugo Awards, the field's highest honor.
Anderson combines a completely new novel of Unattached Agent Manse Everard and the Patrol with all of his previously written stories in this series compiled over the last 35 years.
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward III in the war against France, a most astonishing event occurs: a huge silver ship descends through the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Poul_Anderson   (1033 words)

  
 Mylibrary: The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Less a novel than a series of short stories and novelettes tied together by their subjects, this volume tells of 11 "immortals": individuals who will not die of old age but who can, however, be killed.
Anderson (The Avatar) brings proven storytelling abilities and research skills to chronicles that range from 310 B.C. to a centuries-distant future.
Poul Anderson lived in Orinda, California where he passed away in 2001.
www.mylibrary.nu /Books/Books.cfm/ID/5398/PageID/22   (516 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: For Love and Glory
Poul Anderson was born in 1926 in Bristol, Pennsylvania.
Anderson's stories were a novella, "The Burning Sky", and a novelette, "Woodcraft", both featuring a heroine named Laurice Windfell.
I wouldn't be surprised if Anderson intended one final revision pass through the book but sadly never had the chance.
www.sfsite.com /06b/fl154.htm   (760 words)

  
 Poul Anderson AIM Discussion 4-15-2000
Poul Anderson: No, it all depends on what state of development the story is at, as well as outside circumstances.
Poul Anderson: I had thought the concept was used up, but from time to time a notion would occur and I'd jot it down.
Poul Anderson: Egil and some others claimed she was a witch, so Poul is accepting that as fact.
www.heinleinsociety.org /readersgroup/AIM_04-15-2000.html   (10466 words)

  
 Award-winning science fiction author Poul Anderson dies at 74; had battled prostate cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Master science fiction writer Poul Anderson, author of futuristic tales of human courage, died of complications related to prostate cancer.
Anderson was a former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and a winner of three Nebula Awards and seven Hugo Awards.
Anderson's stories exemplified the bravery the writer saw around him and throughout history, she said.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2001/08/02/obituary1136EDT0589.DTL   (486 words)

  
 Poul Anderson -- Recent and Upcoming Books
Poul Anderson's evocotive stories draw freely upon the founding conventions of fantasy, with echoes of space operas and epic sagas.
Poul Anderson marks the 50th year of his science fiction writing career with the conclusion of his Harvest of Stars series (Boat of a Million Years, Harvest of Stars, The Stars are Also Fire, Harvest the Fire).
To save Earth from the crushing grip of totalitarianism, Kyra Davis journeys from the planet's rebel enclaves to the decadence of a lunar colony to a new world threatened by a dying star as she seeks to rescue the leader of Earth's last refuge of freedom.
www.non.com /books/Anderson_Poul_r.html   (1753 words)

  
 Kyrie by Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson is one of the standard hard science fiction writers, in the tradition of Kipling, in the tradition of Campbell, in the tradition of Heinlein.
Anderson has always defended the traditions of military honor in his fiction, and devoted much of his effort to adventure plots.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls him "sf's most prolific writer of any consistent quality." If any living sf writer is the heir to Heinlein's mantle as the dean of science fiction, it is Poul Anderson.
ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Kyrie.html   (311 words)

  
 Agent of the Terran Empire by Poul Anderson (Olson)
In Anderson's main future history, the renaissance of the Polesotechnic League is followed by collapse and the formation of a new interstellar government in the Terran Empire.
Anderson is mature enough to realize that the Empire is no more than an expedient to stave off the final collapse of civilization; that it is not a desirable government in itself.
(It's interesting that Anderson sees both the decline from the fairly democratic Commonwealth/Polesotechnic League to the autocratic Empire and the fall of the Empire as inevitable.) That understanding is manifest in Dominic Flandry, an unlikely sybarite hero who likes all of the pleasures of the flesh while saving the Empire from enemies foreign and domestic.
www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/AgentOfTheTerranEmpire.html   (439 words)

  
 For Love And Glory by Poul Anderson
Anderson also shared a rare distinction with Hal Clement in doing realistic worlds and believable aliens and make you believe the problems you would face if you lived or visited them.
Anderson claims in the introduction that there’s more of a connection to ‘Asimov’s Universe’ books which he wrote for and incorporated some of the material here.
Poul Anderson was always a smooth and effortless writer and I doubt if anyone would have any problem reading any of his books.
www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/03_may/review0503_5.shtml   (443 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: The Broken Sword
Forty-eight years have passed since Poul Anderson first published The Broken Sword, a work broadly acknowledged as a classic of heroic fantasy.
The end result can be viewed as an antithesis to Tolkien's, or at least a differentiation between dual traditions, pagan and Christian, whose modern separation here is perhaps an inevitable outcome after years of enforced cohabitation within the canon of fantasy literature.
From out of this backdrop the author will hurl a maelstrom of mayhem and slaughter that is notable not only for its panoply of faerie wonder, but also for its stark and unremitting grimness of tone.
www.sfsite.com /12a/br141.htm   (815 words)

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