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Poul Anderson

Born

in Bristol, Pennsylvania, The United States

November 25, 1926

Died

July 31, 2001

Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction

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Pseudonym 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 Amer ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 139,251 ratings · 10,905 reviews · 1,598 distinct works • Similar authors

	Tau Zero 3.83 avg rating — 17,720 ratings — published 1970 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Broken Sword 3.87 avg rating — 7,880 ratings — published 1954 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Hearts and Three Lions 3.83 avg rating — 5,666 ratings — published 1953 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boat of a Million Years 3.82 avg rating — 5,258 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The High Crusade 3.87 avg rating — 4,934 ratings — published 1960 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brain Wave 3.69 avg rating — 3,953 ratings — published 1954	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trader to the Stars 3.90 avg rating — 2,610 ratings — published 1964 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ensign Flandry (Flandry, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 2,456 ratings — published 1966 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Patrol (Time Patrol #1-4 + 6 omnibus) 3.76 avg rating — 2,292 ratings — published 1997 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guardians of Time 3.77 avg rating — 2,124 ratings — published 1960 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Operation Otherworld (3 books)
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Quotes by Poul Anderson (?)

“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”
― Poul Anderson, Harvest of Stars

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“I’ve yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn’t become still more complicated.”
― Poul Anderson, Call Me Joe

tags: complicated, problem

34 likes

“Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.”
― Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword

tags: fantasy

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Polling for Sept-Oct topic(s). Please write in other options and comment if one topic is sufficient, or should we pick the top two.

"Viking Age": books like The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson or Scott Oden's newly released A Gathering of Ravens ...or C. Dean Andersson's Bloodsong! — Hel X 3... or Robert Holdstock's Berserker SF Gateway Omnibus: The Shadow of the Wolf, The Bull Chief, The Horned Warrior

Bloodsong! — Hel X 3 by C. Dean Andersson

Berserker SF Gateway Omnibus The Shadow of the Wolf, The Bull Chief, The Horned Warrior by Robert Holdstock

17 votes, 36.2%

"Off the Planet;" Sword & Planet like Kenneth Bulmer's Dray Prescot Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1); or Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars.

Transit to Scorpio (Dray Prescot, #1) (Delian Cycle, #1) by Alan Burt Akers

John Carter of Mars (Barsoom, #11) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

13 votes, 27.7%

"Classic William": William Hope Hodgson’s The William Hope Hodgson Megapack: 35 Classic Works or The House on the Borderland and Other Novels OR William Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

The William Hope Hodgson Megapack 35 Classic Works by William Hope Hodgson

The House on the Borderland and Other Novels by William Hope Hodgson

The Wood Beyond the World by William Morris, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology by William Morris

7 votes, 14.9%

"Goofy stuff": like Myth Adventures (Myth Conceptions) by Robert Lynn Asprin or Terry Pratchett's Disc World ... Colour of Magic - Disc world #1

Myth Conceptions (Myth Adventures, #2) by Robert Lynn Asprin

Colour of Magic - Disc world #1 by Terry Pratchett

6 votes, 12.8%

Classic William (write-in)

2 votes, 4.3%

Goofy stuff (write-in)

1 vote, 2.1%

Off the planet (write-in)

1 vote, 2.1%

william (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

47 total votes

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