He was innate inside Bristol, Pennsylvania.

He received a degree around natural philosophy from either the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married a previous Karen Kruse in 1953. It got of these girl, Astrid, world health organization is married to the science fiction creator Greg Bear.

He was a sixth President of the association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking professional inside 1972.

He died at 74 within 2001.

Survey of his fiction

Anderson is probably better known for even heroic tale where larger-than-heroic characters succeed joyously or fail heroically. Though he likewise wrote quietly works, especially at short lengths & withinside the future in his career, he was rarely interested in psychological analysis.

Tremendously of his science fiction is thoroughly grounded inside science (by having a addition of dubious however standard speculations like faster-than-light travel). The specialty was imagining scientifically plausible non-Earthlike planets. Perchance a right-known was a planet of The Human That Numbers—Anderson adjusted its size & composition therefore that human being may sleep in a open air however flying intelligent aliens can develop, & he explored symptoms one adjustments.

Within several stories, Andersin commented on society & politics. He typically returned to libertarianism (which accounts for his Prometheus Awards) and to the top executive when hero, virtually all notably his character Nicholas van Rijn. Beginning in the Seventies, his historically grounded works were influenced per theories of the historian John K. Hord, who argued that all empires follow the same broad pattern—in which the Terran Empire of the Dominic Flandry spy stories fit neatly.

He placed tremendously of his function it used to be that, typically sustaining a addition of magic, or even even inside surrogate or first worlds that resemble preceding eras. The specialty was his transmissible Scandinavia. Often he presented such worlds when superior to the dull, above-civilized present. Notable depictions of this superiority come a prehistoric globe of "The Long Remembering", a medieval society of The High Crusade, the quasi-medieval one of "No Truce with Kings", & a wild Jupiter of "Call Me Joe". He handled a lure & power of throwback satirically within "Pact", critically in "The Queen of Air and Darkness" and The Nighttime Face, & tragically inside "Goat Song".

Perhaps fitting his love for olden years is that Ander-Saxon is named fallowing him.

Awards
Gandalf Grand Master (1978) Hugo Award (seven days) John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2000) Nebula Award (three times) Prometheus Award (four times, including Favorite Prometheus Award for Life-time Accomplishment around 2001) SFWA Grand Master Award (1997)

Partial Bibliography (book-length works only)

Series

King of Ys

Roma Mater (1986) sustaining Karen Anderson Gallicenae (1987) by owning Karen Anderson Dahut (1987) by having Karen Anderson A Run & a Wolf (1988) by using Karen Anderson

Tomorrow's Children

''Tomorrow's Babies (1947) by having F. North. Waldrop Chain of Logic (1947)

Psychotechnic League

Planet of There are no Go to (a.k.a. Wonder & Guide) (1954) Star Slipway (1956) A Snows of Ganymede (1958) Virgin Planet (1959) A Psychotechnic League (1981) Cold Triumph (1982) Starship (1982)

Hoka

Tellurian's Effect (1957) with Gordon R. Dickson Star Prince Charlie (1975) by having Gordon R. Dickson Hoka! (1983) by having Gordon R. Dickson

Reissued by Baen as:

Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! inside 1998 Hokas Pokas inside 2000

Technic History

period of Nicholas Van Rijn (by internal chronology):

War of the Wing-Men'' (original book publication heavy emended; creator's favorite text [and title] late issued when A Human That Numbers) (1958) Monger to the Stars (1964) (Prometheus Award), collects: "Hiding Place" (1961) "Territory" (1961) "The Master Key" (1971) A Condition Twisters (features David Falkayn, non Van Rijn) (1966), collects: "The Three-Cornered Wheel" (1963) "A Sun Invisible" (1966) "The Trouble Twisters" (as well referred to as "Trader Team") (1965) ''Satan's Globe (1969) A Globe Book of Stormgate'' (numbers of stories don't feature Van Rijn) (1978). It collects: "Wings of Victory" (1972) "The Problem of Pain" (1973) "How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson" (1974) "Margin of Profit" (1956) "Esau" (as well referred to as "Birthright") (1970) "The Season of Forgiveness" (1973) A Human That Numbers (number one appearance of the unedited version of War of the Wing-Men) (1958) "A Little Knowledge" (1971) "Day of Burning" (likewise referred to as "Supernova") (1967) "Lodestar" (1973) "Wingless" (likewise referred to as "Wingless on Avalon") (1973) "Rescue on Avalon" (1973) Mirkheim (1977) A Humans of the Wind (doesn't feature Falkayn or even Van Rijn) (1973)

period of Dominic Flandry (by internal chronology):

Ensign Flandry (1966) The Circus of Hells (1970) A Rebel Worlds (1969) A Day of Their Go to (doesn't feature Flandry) (1973) Professional of the Terran Empire (1965), collects: "Tiger by the Tail" (1951) "The Warriors From Nowhere (1954) "Honorable Enemies" (1951) "Hunters of the Sky Cave" (also known as "The Handful of Stars" and We Claim These Stars) (1959) Flandry of Terra (1965), collects: "A Game of Glory" (1958) "The Message on the qt" (also known as Mayday Orbit) (1959) "A Plague of Masters" (also known as "The Plague of Masters" and Earthman, Go Home!) (1960) A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (1974) A Stone in Heaven (1979) The Game of Empire (1985) The Long Night (does not feature Flandry) (1983), collects: "A Star Despoiler" (1952) "Outpost of Empire" (1967) "The Tragedy of Errors" (1967) "A Sharing of Flesh" (1968) (Hugo, Nebula) "Starfog" (1967) Let the Spaceman Beware (also known as The Night Face, does not feature Flandry) (1963)

Time Patrol

Guardians of Time (1960) Time Patrolman (1983) The Year of the Ransom (1988) The Shield of Time (1990) The Time Patrol (1991)

History of Rustum

Orbit Unlimited (1961) New America (1982)

Operation Otherworld

Operation Chaos (1971) Operation Luna (1999)

The Last Viking

The Golden Horn (1980) with Karen Anderson The Road of the Sea Horse (1980) with Karen Anderson The Sign of the Raven (1980) with Karen Anderson

Maurai
Maurai and Kith (1982), collects: "Ghetto" (1954) "A Sky Humans" (1959) "Progress" (1961) "A Horn of Period a Hunter" (also known as "Homo Aquaticus", 1963) "Windmill" (1973) Orion Shall Rise (1983)

Harvest of Stars
Harvest of Stars (1993) The Stars Are Also Fire (1994) (Prometheus Award) Harvest the Fire (1995) The Fleet of Stars (1997)

Non-series Novels

Vault of the Ages (1952) Brain Wave (1954) The Broken Sword (1954) No World of Their Own (1955) Perish by the Sword (1959) War of Two Worlds (1959) The Enemy Stars (also known as "'I have fed my sea—'") (1959) The High Crusade (1960) Murder in Black Letter (1960) Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961) Twilight World (1961) After Doomsday (1962) The Makeshift Rocket (1962) (expansion of "The Bicycle Built for Brewage") Murder Bound (1962) Shield (1963) Three Worlds to Conquer (1964) The Corridors of Time (1965) The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck (1966) World Without Stars (1966) Tau Zero (1970) (expansion of "To Outlive Eternity") The Byworlder (1971) The Dancer from Atlantis (1971) ''Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1973) There Will Be Time (1973) Fire Time (1974) Inheritors of Earth (1974) with Gordon Eklund A Midsummer Tempest (1974) The Winter of the World (1975) The Avatar (1978) The Demon of Scattery (1979) with Mildred Downey Broxon Conan the Rebel (1980) The Devil's Game (1980) The Boat of a Million Years (1989) The Saturn Game (1989) The Longest Voyage (1991) War of the Gods (1997) Starfarers (1998) Genesis (2000) (John W. Campbell Memorial Award) Mother of Kings (2001) For Love and Glory (2003)

Fixups
The Star Fox (1965) (Prometheus Award) Operation Chaos (1971) The Merman's Children (1979)

Collections

Orbit Unlimited (1961) Strangers from Earth (1961) Twilight World (1961) Un-Man and Other Novellas (1962) Time and Stars (1964) The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin (1966) The Horn of Time (1968) Beyond the Beyond (1969) Seven Conquests (1969) Tales of the Flying Mountains (1970) The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories (1973) The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson (also known as The Book of Poul Anderson) (1974) — Edited by Roger Elwood Homeward and Beyond (1975) The Best of Poul Anderson (1976) Homebrew (1976) The Night Face & Other Stories (1979) The Dark Between the Stars (1981) Explorations (1981) Fantasy (1981) The Guardians of Time (1981) Winners'' (1981) (a collection of Anderson's Hugo-winners) Cold Victory (1982) The Gods Laughed (1982) New America (1982) Starship (1982) The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness (1982) Conflict (1983) The Long Night (1983) Past Times (1984) The Unicorn Trade (1984) with Karen Anderson Dialogue With Darkness (1985) Space Folk (1989) The Shield of Time (1990) Alight in the Void (1991) The Armies of Elfland (1991) Inconstant Star (1991) — Stories set in Larry Niven's Man-Kzin universe. Kinship with the Stars (1991) All One Universe (1996) Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! (1998) with Gordon R. Dickson Going for Infinity

Omnibus
The Worlds of Poul Anderson (1974) Operation Otherworld (1999)

Anthologies
4 Nebula Award Stories 4 (1969) The Day the Sun Stood Still (1972) with Gordon R. Dickson and Robert Silverberg A World Named Cleopatra (1977)

Non-Genre
The Golden Slave (1960) - Historical novel Rogue Sword (1960) - Historical novel

See Also
science fiction: authors - novels - short stories - television shows Ander-Saxon