Poul Anderson (Author of Tau Zero)
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Poul Anderson


Born
in Bristol, Pennsylvania, The United States
November 25, 1926

Died
July 31, 2001

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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
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Average rating: 3.79 · 127,125 ratings · 9,184 reviews · 1,469 distinct worksSimilar authors
Tau Zero

3.83 avg rating — 14,937 ratings — published 1970 — 71 editions
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The Broken Sword

3.86 avg rating — 6,954 ratings — published 1954 — 71 editions
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Three Hearts and Three Lions

3.84 avg rating — 5,124 ratings — published 1953 — 68 editions
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The Boat of a Million Years

3.82 avg rating — 4,840 ratings — published 1989 — 41 editions
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The High Crusade

3.89 avg rating — 4,334 ratings — published 1960 — 68 editions
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Brain Wave

3.71 avg rating — 3,523 ratings — published 1954 — 80 editions
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Trader to the Stars

3.91 avg rating — 2,562 ratings — published 1964 — 36 editions
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Ensign Flandry (Flandry, #1)

3.88 avg rating — 2,380 ratings — published 1966 — 32 editions
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Time Patrol (Time Patrol #1...

3.74 avg rating — 2,065 ratings — published 1955 — 33 editions
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Guardians of Time

3.76 avg rating — 1,892 ratings — published 1960 — 51 editions
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“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”
Poul Anderson, Harvest of Stars

“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

“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

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