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A science fiction writer, Anderson wrote more than 100 novels and short stories, including Tau Zero, Midsummer Tempest and The Boat of a Million Years. Last month, Genesis won the John W. Campbell Award for 2000's best science fiction novel. He also won several Hugo and Nebula awards, and earned a place in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Anderson died at his home in Orinda, Calif., from prostate cancer July 31, while his wife and writing partner Karen read him e-mails from adoring friends and fans. He was 74. [I had the pleasure of meeting Poul and Karen around 10 years ago at a writers' roundtable. They were very generous with their time, and very interesting to talk to. -rc] From This is True for 29 July 2001 Suggestions for further reading:
 By: Poul Anderson List Price: $22.00 Amazon Price: $16.06 Editorial Review: When the human race spread out among the stars, they took the profit motive with them, and none exemplified that fact better than Nicholas Van Rijn, interstellar trader and capitalist extraordinaire. He might look like Falstaff and talk in a steady stream of malapropisms, but anybody who might take him for a bumbling buffoon would quickly find themselves taken?to the cleaners! In Nick Van Rijn, Poul Anderson created one of the most memorable and popular characters in science fiction, and now, for the first time, all the stories of Van Rijn and the Polesotechnic League will be published in chronological order in three volumes. This first volume includes the classic novel, The Man Who Counts, in which Van Rijn and two associates are stranded on a planet inhabited by a winged race, two factions of which happen to be at war with each other. The planet has no food that is not poisonous to humans, and the three humans have only a small supply of food in their wrecked ship. Somehow the humans must get to another continent, where a human outpost is, before they starve, in spite of the planet?s inhabitants being too busy fighting a war to bother with the troubles of these three odd-looking wingless aliens. An impossible problem? Not for Nick Van Rijn.
Also included are more stories of Van Rijn flamboyant exploits, plus stories set elsewhere in the Polesotechnic universe. And, after the three volumes chronicling the Polesotechnic League?s rise and fall will come more volumes, telling of the rise of the Terran Empire and the adventures of Poul Anderson?s other legendary character, Captain Sir Dominic Flandry.
 By: Larry NivenPoul AndersonDean Ing List Price: $3.99 Amazon Price: $3.99 Editorial Review: "Colorful characters and pulse-pounding narrative drive. Niven is a true master!"  By: Poul Anderson List Price: $22.00 Amazon Price: $14.96 Editorial Review: The Polesotechnic League of star traders was prospering, and Nicholas Van Rijn, its most flamboyant member, was prospering most of all as commerce flowed between the stars. But not all League members played fair when trading, nor did some of the non-human races of the galaxy object to dirty tricks. Van Rijn could not be everywhere, and relied on his representatives, foremost among them his young protégé, David Falkayn, and the members of David?s trader team: Adzel, a large dragon-like being who practiced Buddhism, and Chee-Lan, a brilliant but hot-tempered felinesque extraterrestrial.
This is the second volume in the first complete edition of Poul Anderson?s Technic Civilization saga. And, after the three volumes chronicling the Polesotechnic League?s rise and fall will come more volumes, telling of the rise of the Terran Empire and the adventures of Poul Anderson?s other legendary character, Captain Sir Dominic Flandry.  By: Poul Anderson List Price: $7.99 Amazon Price: $7.99 Editorial Review: Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. But Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering-or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists-erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul.  By: Poul AndersonGordon R. Dickson List Price: $6.99 Amazon Price: $6.99 Editorial Review: If a human thinks he's Napoleon, it's time to get out a straitjacket. But when a Hoka thinks he's Napoleon, you'd better believe it! Just remember that with Hokas, reality is merely optional. . . . |
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