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Operation Otherworld #1
Operation Chaos
The prequel to the popular Operation Luna.
In a war waged against black magic, a werewolf and his witch wife are called upon to neutralize an enemy's ultimate weapon--the world's most powerful demon.
Set in a fantasy alternate history United States where magic and technology combine. Werewolfery is not only hereditary, but a recessive gene, and the polarized component of moonlight has been isolated, so that the hero can use a Were-flash to transform without the full moon.
In a war waged against black magic, a werewolf and his witch wife are called upon to neutralize an enemy's ultimate weapon--the world's most powerful demon.
Set in a fantasy alternate history United States where magic and technology combine. Werewolfery is not only hereditary, but a recessive gene, and the polarized component of moonlight has been isolated, so that the hero can use a Were-flash to transform without the full moon.
256 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1971
About the author
Poul Anderson
1,600 books1,132 followersPseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.
Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was 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. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3]
Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.
Series:
* Time Patrol
* Psychotechnic League
* Trygve Yamamura
* Harvest of Stars
* King of Ys
* Last Viking
* Hoka
* Future history of the Polesotechnic League
* Flandry
Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was 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. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3]
Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.
Series:
* Time Patrol
* Psychotechnic League
* Trygve Yamamura
* Harvest of Stars
* King of Ys
* Last Viking
* Hoka
* Future history of the Polesotechnic League
* Flandry
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June 1, 2022
Pubblicato nel 1971 e in Italia solamente nel 1985 (e mai il seguito uscito nel 2000) è un insieme di tre racconti fantasy di una scorrevolezza e potenza tipica di PA il quale con precisione e acutezza sa usare temi, miti, leggende della narrazione occidentale e non solo, mischiando il tutto con un pizzico di humour e dramma. La bellezza di questo libricino sta proprio nella capacità di coinvolgere il lettore nelle vicende dei nostri protagonisti, della loro capacità di usare doti e poteri, di rendere anche un po' meno pesanti gli spiegoni, ma soprattutto di arrivare prima di tanta letteratura contemporanea. I tre racconti sono in crescendo di pathos e di coinvolgimento dei due eroi, ma anche di coinvolgimento del lettore in questa Terra parallela e simile alla nostra.
Come suo solito PA non può non dare una piccola stoccata alla sua società quando parla del potere militare, delle sette religiose, della crisi economica, delle leggi assurde nel campus per difendere "la moralità". Eppure è tutto in sottofondo, niente che disturbi la lettura, ma che ti lascia il tarlo nel cervello e fa pensare. Perché la grandezza di certi autori sta anche in questo.
E in ogni modo se vi piacciono scope volanti, famigli ingombranti, lotte contro forze malefiche, incantesimi e metamorfosi questo libro fa per voi. Soprattutto perché viene molto prima di tanti libri che sono sicura abbiate amato.
Difetti: troppo corto e quindi poco approfondito e lascia tante cose scoperte.
Come suo solito PA non può non dare una piccola stoccata alla sua società quando parla del potere militare, delle sette religiose, della crisi economica, delle leggi assurde nel campus per difendere "la moralità". Eppure è tutto in sottofondo, niente che disturbi la lettura, ma che ti lascia il tarlo nel cervello e fa pensare. Perché la grandezza di certi autori sta anche in questo.
E in ogni modo se vi piacciono scope volanti, famigli ingombranti, lotte contro forze malefiche, incantesimi e metamorfosi questo libro fa per voi. Soprattutto perché viene molto prima di tanti libri che sono sicura abbiate amato.
Difetti: troppo corto e quindi poco approfondito e lascia tante cose scoperte.
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