Poul Anderson






Poul Anderson

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born
November 25, 1926

died
July 31, 2001

gender
male

place of birth
Bristol, Pennsylvania, The United States

genre
Science Fiction & Fantasy


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Pseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.

Poul Anderson was one of the most prolific and popular writers in science fiction. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, as well as many other awards, notably including the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America for a lifetime of distinguished achievement. With a degree in physics, and a wide knowledge of other fields of science, he was noted for building stories on a solid foundation of real science, as well as for being one of the most skilled creators of fast-paced adventure stories. He was author of over a hundred novels and story collections, and several hundred short stories, as well as several ...more




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The Boat of a Million Years The Boat of a Million Years
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.58 — 160 ratings — published 1989
6 editions
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The Broken Sword The Broken Sword
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.87 — 134 ratings — published 1954
13 editions
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Tau Zero Tau Zero
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.55 — 146 ratings — published 1970
18 editions
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Three Hearts and Three Lions Three Hearts and Three Lions
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.77 — 131 ratings — published 1961
19 editions
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The High Crusade The High Crusade
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.84 — 123 ratings — published 1960
9 editions
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Time Patrol Time Patrol
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.48 — 112 ratings — published 1991
7 editions
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Brain Wave Brain Wave
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.47 — 77 ratings — published 1954
9 editions
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Operation Chaos: A Novel Operation Chaos: A Novel
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.98 — 60 ratings — published 1971
5 editions
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Trader to the Stars Trader to the Stars (Berkley Medallion, F1284)
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.62 — 61 ratings — published 1964
8 editions
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Ensign Flandry: The Saga of Do... Ensign Flandry: The Saga of Dominic Flandry 1
by Poul Anderson
avg rating 3.63 — 60 ratings — published 1966
10 editions
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"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)
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"“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
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"'That,' he confessed aloud, 'was as ludicrous a case of mutual ineptitude as the gods of slapstick ever engineered. We both deserve to be tickled to death by small green centipedes. Well... if you keep quiet about it, I will.'"
Poul Anderson (Flandry of Terra)
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