Poul Anderson livro The Boat of a Million Years
Fonte: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 7 “The Same Kind”, Section 2 (p. 140)
Poul William Anderson foi um escritor estadunidense da Era Dourada da ficção científica. Alguns dos seus primeiros contos foram publicados sob o pseudónimo de A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, e Winston P. Sanders. Foi, ainda, autor de diversas obras que se podem classificar como literatura fantástica, como na série King of Ys.
Filho de pais de origem dinamarquesa, formou-se em física na Universidade de Minnesota, em 1948. Casou-se com Karen Kruse em 1953, de quem teve uma filha, Astrid .
Começou a escrever ficção científica em 1937, enquanto estava convalescente de uma doença. O seu primeiro conto, publicado na revista Astounding em Setembro de 1944, foi A matter of relativity. Em 1947 publicou a sua primeira obra de envergadura: Tomorrow's children na mesma revista, mês de Março, com apenas 20 anos.
Em 1972 tornou-se o sexto presidente dos Escritores de Ficção Científica e Fantasia da América.
Foi também membro da "Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America", um grupo que unia em si várias correntes de autores, fundado na década de 1960 e cujas obras foram objecto de uma antologia organizada por Lin Carter .
Foi, igualamente, membro da Society for Creative Anachronism.
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Poul Anderson livro The Boat of a Million Years
Fonte: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 7 “The Same Kind”, Section 2 (p. 140)
Poul Anderson livro The Boat of a Million Years
Fonte: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 5 “No Man Shuns His Doom”, Section 1 (p. 106)
“Nothing in excess, including self-denial.”
Poul Anderson livro The Boat of a Million Years
Fonte: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 2 “The Peaches of Forever” (p. 29)
“What else is life but always bidding farewell?”
Poul Anderson livro The Boat of a Million Years
Fonte: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 1 “Thule”, Section 8 (p. 21)
“Do you actually hope to convert the whole of mankind?”
Poul Anderson livro There Will Be Time
“Belay that! Anyhow, if you mean, Do we hope to make everybody into copies of us? The answer is, No. Mind, I’m not in Parliament or Admiralty, but I follow debates and I read the philosophers. One trouble with the old machine culture was that, by its nature, it did force people to become more and more alike. Not only did this fail in the end—disastrously—but to the extent it succeeded, it was a worse disaster.” Lohannaso smote the rail with a mighty fist. “Damnation, Thomas! We need all the diversity, all the assorted ways of living and looking and thinking, we can get!”
Fonte: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 119)
“Your son was in your own tradition.”
Poul Anderson livro The Enemy Stars
“Better, I hope,” said the old man. “There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.”
Fonte: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 150)
Journey’s End (p. 205)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Poul Anderson livro The Longest Voyage
The Longest Voyage (p. 171)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
“Let’s stop making wild guesses and start gathering data.”
Epilogue (p. 122)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Patrick L. McGuire, Her Strong Enchantments Failing (p. 95)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Patrick L. McGuire, Her Strong Enchantments Failing (p. 94)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Patrick L. McGuire, Her Strong Enchantments Failing (p. 94)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Patrick L. McGuire, Her Strong Enchantments Failing (p. 93; this work is an essay about Anderson's story The Queen of Air and Darkness).
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Poul Anderson livro The Queen of Air and Darkness
The Queen of Air and Darkness (p. 43)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
“You were right. We should never have created science. It brought the twilight of the race.”
“I never said that. The race brought its own destruction, through misuse of science. Our culture was scientific anyway, in all except its psychological basis. It’s up to us to take that last and hardest step. If we do, the race may yet survive.”
Tomorrow's Children (p. 34)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Tomorrow's Children (p. 30)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)
Cold Victory, in Scithers & Schweitzer (eds.) Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, p. 181. Originally appeared in Venture Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Science_Fiction, May 1957 <br class="br">Short fiction
Cold Victory, in Scithers & Schweitzer (eds.) Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, p. 181. Originally appeared in Venture Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Science_Fiction, May 1957 <br class="br">Short fiction
Poul Anderson livro The People of the Wind
He drew breath. “Best beloved,” he said, “if communities didn’t resist encroachments, they’d soon be swallowed by the biggest and greediest. Wouldn’t they? In the end, dead sameness. No challenges, no inspirations from somebody else’s way. What service is it to life if we let that happen?
Chapter 19 (p. 175)
The People of the Wind (1973)
Poul Anderson livro The People of the Wind
Fonte: The People of the Wind (1973), Chapter 17 (p. 161)