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White Wolf Rediscovery Trio
Three in Time: The Winds of Time/The Year of the Quiet Sun/There Will Be Time
The stories we tell are not limited to monsters and harsh otherworlds. Yet the fiction books in the Borealis imprint certainly belong to a world other than our own. This line encompasses our science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and anthologies.
592 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1997
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About the author
Poul Anderson
1,625 books1,111 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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August 25, 2012
An interesting trio of time-travel novels that was sitting on my shelf. They get better as they go on:
1) The Winds of Time by Chad Oliver just barely qualifies as a time travel story, but it's more of a thoughtful version of an old-fashioned Golden Age space-opera. It has a dark subtext (all of these stories do), but with good well-rounded characters (Earthly and not).
2) The Year of the Quiet Sun by WIlson Tucker is easily the darkest and most depressing. And the most political. It does a few clever things with time travel, but the future looks awful. Thankfully, the future from 1970 wasn't quite that hellish.
3) There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson is the best of the lot, and ends with optimism, without shrinking from future horror. It's really about the time travelers as well as the shape of things to come, about how one might use time travel, and build community. It also showcases some very broad, moderate political thinking.
1) The Winds of Time by Chad Oliver just barely qualifies as a time travel story, but it's more of a thoughtful version of an old-fashioned Golden Age space-opera. It has a dark subtext (all of these stories do), but with good well-rounded characters (Earthly and not).
2) The Year of the Quiet Sun by WIlson Tucker is easily the darkest and most depressing. And the most political. It does a few clever things with time travel, but the future looks awful. Thankfully, the future from 1970 wasn't quite that hellish.
3) There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson is the best of the lot, and ends with optimism, without shrinking from future horror. It's really about the time travelers as well as the shape of things to come, about how one might use time travel, and build community. It also showcases some very broad, moderate political thinking.
April 25, 2014
Classic lesser known time travel novels. The Year of the Quiet Sun is failed near future predictions regarding an expanded Vietnam war and worsening racial conflict. The Winds of Time is about melancholic alien explorers who crash land on Earth and must use hibernation to await an advanced tech civilization developing, if the humans don't blow themselves up first. There Will Be time is personally the best with an extremely few people born with the ability to jump in time. What would most people born with that ability be like?
February 19, 2016
Great Read. I especially liked the third story - There will be Time by Poul Anderson .
It is an epic!
It is an epic!
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