Poul Anderson
Author profile
born
in Bristol, Pennsylvania, The United States
November 25, 1926
died
July 31, 2001
gender
male
genre
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Tau Zero
— published 1970 — 29 editions |
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The Boat of a Million Years
— published 1989 — 16 editions |
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The Broken Sword
— published 1954 — 31 editions |
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Three Hearts and Three Lions
— published 1953 — 32 editions |
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The High Crusade
— published 1964 — 23 editions |
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Trader to the Stars
— published 1964 — 11 editions |
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Brain Wave
— published 1954 — 31 editions |
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Time Patrol
— published 1955 — 14 editions |
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Ensign Flandry: The Saga of Dominic Flandry 1
— published 1966 — 14 editions |
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Guardians of Time
— published 1960 — 18 editions |
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“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”
― Poul Anderson, Harvest of Stars
― Poul Anderson, Harvest of Stars
“Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery”
― Poul Anderson, The Stars are Also Fire
― Poul Anderson, The Stars are Also Fire
“You simply do not understand the human condition,” said the robot.
Hah! Do you think you do, you conceited hunk of animated tin?”
Yes, I believe so, thanks ot my study of the authors, poets, and critics who devote their lives to the exploration and description of Man. Your Miss Forelle is a noble soul. Ever since I looked upon my first copy of that exquisitely sensitive literary quarterly she edits, I have failed to understand what she sees in you. To be sure,” IZK-99 mused, “the relationship is not unlike that between the nun and the Diesel engine in Regret for Two Doves, but still… At any rate, if Miss Forelle has finally told you to go soak your censored head in expurgated wastes and then put the unprintable thing in an improbable place, I for one heartily approve.
Tunny, who was no mamma’s boy — he had worked his way through college as a whale herder and bossed construction gangs on Mars — was so appalled by the robot’s language that he could only whisper, “She did not. She said nothing of the sort.”
I did not mean it literally,” IZK-99 explained. “I was only quoting the renunciation scene in Gently Come Twilight. By Stichling, you know — almost as sensitive a writer as Brochet.”
― Poul Anderson
Hah! Do you think you do, you conceited hunk of animated tin?”
Yes, I believe so, thanks ot my study of the authors, poets, and critics who devote their lives to the exploration and description of Man. Your Miss Forelle is a noble soul. Ever since I looked upon my first copy of that exquisitely sensitive literary quarterly she edits, I have failed to understand what she sees in you. To be sure,” IZK-99 mused, “the relationship is not unlike that between the nun and the Diesel engine in Regret for Two Doves, but still… At any rate, if Miss Forelle has finally told you to go soak your censored head in expurgated wastes and then put the unprintable thing in an improbable place, I for one heartily approve.
Tunny, who was no mamma’s boy — he had worked his way through college as a whale herder and bossed construction gangs on Mars — was so appalled by the robot’s language that he could only whisper, “She did not. She said nothing of the sort.”
I did not mean it literally,” IZK-99 explained. “I was only quoting the renunciation scene in Gently Come Twilight. By Stichling, you know — almost as sensitive a writer as Brochet.”
― Poul Anderson
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