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{{Short description|American science fiction writer (1926–2001)}}
Poul Anderson ([[November 25]], [[1926]] - [[July 31]], [[2001]]), profilic [[science fiction]] author of the [[Golden age]].
{{Similar names|Poul Andersen (disambiguation)|Paul Anderson (disambiguation){{!}}Paul Anderson}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Poul Anderson
| image = poul anderson.jpg
| caption = Anderson at [[Polcon]] in 1985
| pseudonym = A. A. Craig<br />Michael Karageorge<br />Winston P. Sanders<br />P. A. Kingsley<ref name="filkFirstUse">{{Cite web |url=http://www.conchord.org/xeno/zed2.jpg |title=Tracking Down The First Deliberate Use Of "Filk Song" |access-date=2007-08-11 |author=Lee Gold |author-link=Lee Gold}}</ref>
| birth_name = Poul William Anderson
| birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1926|11|25}}
| birth_place = [[Bristol, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2001|7|31|1926|11|25}}
| death_place = [[Orinda, California]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/books/poul-anderson-science-fiction-novelist-dies-at-74.html |title=Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74 |date =August 3, 2001 |access-date=October 24, 2018 |author= Douglas Martin |website= The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHnGCwAAQBAJ&q=Poul+ |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre ... |author=Harris M. Lentz III |access-date= October 24, 2018|isbn=9780786452064 |year=2008 |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers }}</ref>
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = American
| period = 1948–2001
| genre = [[Science fiction literature|Science fiction]]<br> [[Fantasy literature|Fantasy]]<br>[[mystery fiction|Mystery]]<br>[[Historical fiction]]
| notableworks = {{plainlist|
* ''[[The Broken Sword]]''
* ''[[Tau Zero]]''
* ''[[Three Hearts and Three Lions]]''
}}
| website =
}}


'''Poul William Anderson''' (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001)<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/aug/04/guardianobituaries.books |title= Obituary: Poul Anderson (Prolific writer of science fiction's golden age) |author=David V Barrett |date= August 4, 2001 |access-date=October 25, 2018 |website= The Guardian}}</ref> was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001. Anderson also wrote historical novels. He won the [[Hugo Award]] seven times and the [[Nebula Award]] three times, and was nominated many more times for awards.<ref name="WWE-Hugo">{{cite web |title=Pennsylvania Center for the Book |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Anderson__Poul_William |access-date=2009-03-28 |work=Worlds Without End}}</ref><ref name="WWE-Nebula">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_nebula_index.asp |title=Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: Complete Nebula Award novel listing |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=2024-02-13}}</ref>
He was a graduate of the [[University of Minnesota]] and later became President of the association of [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]].


===Awards===
== Biography ==
*[[Gandalf Grand Master]] (1978)
*[[Hugo]] (Short fiction) (1961)
*[[Nebula Prometheus]] (1995)
*[[John W. Campbell Memorial Award]] (2000)


Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in [[Bristol, Pennsylvania]] to [[Danes|Danish]] parents.<ref>{{cite news |last=Barrett |first=David V. |date=2001-08-06 |title=Poul Anderson: Prolific Writer of Science Fiction's Golden Age |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/aug/06/guardianobituaries |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=2024-02-19}}</ref> Soon after his birth, his father, Anton Anderson, relocated the family to Texas, where they lived for more than ten years. After Anton Anderson's death, his widow took the children to [[Denmark]]. The family returned to the United States after the beginning of [[World War II]], settling eventually on a Minnesota farm.
=== Partial Bibliography (book-length works only) ===
==== Series ====
* <b><i>King of Ys</i></b>
:# <cite>Roma Mater</cite> (1986) with Karen Anderson
:# <cite>Gallicenae</cite> (1987) with Karen Anderson
:# <cite>Dahut</cite> (1987) with Karen Anderson
:# <cite>The Dog and the Wolf</cite> (1988) with Karen Anderson
* <b><cite>Tomorrow's Children</cite></b>
:# <cite>Tomorrow's Children</cite> (1947) with F. N. Waldrop
:# <cite>Chain of Logic</cite> (1947)


While he was an undergraduate student at the [[University of Minnesota]], Anderson's first stories were published by editor [[John W. Campbell]] in the magazine ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'': "Tomorrow's Children" by Anderson and F. N. Waldrop in March 1947 and a sequel, "Chain of Logic" by Anderson alone, in July.{{efn|Anderson continued his first two stories more than a decade later. He added a novella and an epilogue, constituting the collection of four pieces (termed a novel), ''Twilight World: A Science Fiction Novel of Tomorrow's Children'' ([[Dodd, Mead]]). Waldrop was not credited.<ref name=isfdb />}} He earned his BA in physics with honors but became a freelance writer after he graduated in 1948. His third story was printed in the December ''Astounding''.<ref name=isfdb />
* <b><i>Psychotechnic League</i></b>
** <cite>Star Ways</cite> (1956)
** <cite>The Snows of Ganymede</cite> (1958)
** <cite>Virgin Planet</cite> (1959)
** <cite>The Psychotechnic League</cite> (1981)
** <cite>Cold Victory</cite> (1982)
** <cite>Starship</cite> (1982)


Anderson married [[Karen Anderson (writer)|Karen Kruse]] in 1953 and relocated with her to the San Francisco Bay area.<ref name="Martin 2001 v907">{{cite web | last=Martin | first=Douglas | title=Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74 | website=The New York Times | date=August 3, 2001 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/03/books/poul-anderson-science-fiction-novelist-dies-at-74.html | access-date=January 31, 2024}}</ref> Their daughter Astrid (later married to science fiction author [[Greg Bear]]<ref name="Holland 2022 x734">{{cite web | last=Holland | first=Steve | title=Greg Bear obituary | website=the Guardian | date=December 29, 2022 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/29/greg-bear-obituary | access-date=January 31, 2024}}</ref>) was born in 1954{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}. They made their home in [[Orinda, California]].<ref name="Washington Post 2001 k556">{{cite web | title=Writer Poul Anderson, 74, Dies | website=Washington Post | date=August 3, 2001 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2001/08/03/writer-poul-anderson-74-dies/ef257faf-0685-4bd9-b6bd-389b861fe2f8/ | access-date=January 31, 2024}}</ref> Over the years Poul gave many readings at [[The Other Change of Hobbit]] bookstore in [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]]; his widow later donated his typewriter and desk to the store.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}
* <b><i>Hoka</i></b>
** <cite>Earthman's Burden</cite> (1957) with Gordon R. Dickson
** <cite>Star Prince Charlie</cite> (1975) with Gordon R. Dickson
** <cite>Hoka!</cite> (1983) with Gordon R. Dickson


In 1954, he published the fantasy novel ''[[The Broken Sword]]'', one of his most known works.
* <b><i>Technic History</i></b>
** <b>Nicholas Van Rijn</b>
*** <cite>War of the Wing-Men</cite> (1958)
*** <cite>Trader to the Stars</cite> (1964)
*** <cite>The Trouble Twisters</cite> (1966)
*** <cite>Satan's World</cite> (1969)
*** <cite>The People of the Wind</cite> (1973)
*** <cite>Mirkheim</cite> (1977)
*** <cite>The Earth Book of Stormgate</cite> (1978)
** <b>Dominic Flandry</b>
*** <cite>We Claim These Stars</cite> (1959)
*** <cite>Earthman, Go Home!</cite> (1960)
*** <cite>Mayday Orbit</cite> (1961)
*** <cite>Let the Spaceman Beware</cite> (1963)
*** <cite>Agent of the Terran Empire</cite> (1965)
*** <cite>Flandry of Terra</cite> (1965)
*** <cite>Ensign Flandry</cite> (1966)
*** <cite>The Rebel Worlds</cite> (1969)
*** <cite>A Circus of Hells</cite> (1970)
*** <cite>The Day of Their Return</cite> (1973)
*** <cite>A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows</cite> (1974)
*** <cite>A Stone in Heaven</cite> (1979)
*** <cite>The Long Night</cite> (1983)
*** <cite>The Game of Empire</cite> (1985)
*** <cite>Flandry</cite> (1993)


In 1965, [[Algis Budrys]] said that Anderson "has for some time been science fiction's best storyteller".<ref name="budrys196502">{{Cite magazine |last=Budrys |first=Algis |date=February 1965 |title=Galaxy Bookshelf |url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v23n03_1965-02#page/n153/mode/2up |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction |pages=153–159}}</ref> He was a founding member of the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]] (SCA) in 1966 and of the [[Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America]] (SAGA), also during the mid-1960s. The latter was a group of [[Heroic fantasy]] authors organized by [[Lin Carter]], originally eight in number, with entry by credentials as a fantasy writer alone.<!-- source is our article --> Anderson was the sixth President of the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America]], taking office in 1972.
* <b><i>Time Patrol</i></b>
** <cite>Guardians of Time</cite> (1960)
** <cite>Time Patrolman</cite> (1983)
** <cite>The Year of the Ransom</cite> (1988)
** <cite>The Shield of Time</cite> (1990)
** <cite>The Time Patrol</cite> (1991)


[[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]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Heinlein, Robert A |title=The Cat Who Walks Through Walls |publisher=New England Library |year=1986 |isbn=0-450-39315-1}}</ref><ref>[http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/dedications.html Heinlein's Dedications Page Jane Davitt & Tim Morgan]. Retrieved August 20, 2008.</ref>
* <b><i>History of Rustum</i></b>
** <cite>Orbit Unlimited</cite> (1961)
** <cite>New America</cite> (1982)


The [[Science Fiction Writers of America]] made Anderson its 16th [[SFWA Grand Master]] in 1998.<ref name=SFWA /> In 2000's fifth class, he was inducted into the [[EMP Museum#Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame|Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame]] as one of two deceased and two living writers.<ref name=sfhof-old />
* <b><i>Three Hearts</i></b>
** <cite>Three Hearts and Three Lions</cite> (1961)
** <cite>A Midsummer Tempest</cite> (1974)


He died of [[prostate cancer]] on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. A few of his novels were first published posthumously.
* <b><i>The Last Viking</i></b>
** <cite>The Golden Horn</cite> (1980) with Karen Anderson
** <cite>The Road of the Sea Horse</cite> (1980) with Karen Anderson
** <cite>The Sign of the Raven</cite> (1980) with Karen Anderson


==Awards, honors and nominations==
* <b><i>Maurai</i></b>
[[File:Planet stories 195101.jpg|thumb|Anderson's novella ''Witch of the Demon Seas'' (published under his "A. A. Craig" byline) was the cover story in the January 1951 issue of ''[[Planet Stories]]''.]]
** <cite>Maurai and Kith</cite> (1982)
[[File:Galaxy 195104.jpg|thumb|Anderson's novelette "Inside Earth" was the cover story in the April 1951 issue of ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]''.]]
** <cite>Orion Shall Rise</cite> (1983)
* [[Gandalf Award|Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy]] (1978)<ref name=SFAwards />
* [[Hugo Award]] (seven wins)<ref name="WWE-Hugo"/>
* [[Campbell award (best novel)|John W. Campbell Memorial Award]] (2000)<ref name="WWE-2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_year_index.asp?Year=2000 |title=Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2000 Award Winners & Nominees |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=2009-03-28}}</ref>
* [[Inkpot Award]] (1986)<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot| title = Inkpot Award| date = December 6, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Locus Award]] (41 nominations; one win, 1972)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/LocusNomList.html#109 |title=Anderson, Poul |work=The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List |publisher=Locus Publications |access-date=2009-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514220412/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/LocusNomList.html |archive-date=2012-05-14 }}</ref>
* [[Mythopoeic Fantasy Award]] (one win (1975))<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/awards-winners.htm |title=Mythopoeic Society Award Winners |publisher=[[Mythopoeic Society]] }}</ref>
* [[Nebula Award]] (three wins)<ref name="WWE-Nebula"/>
* [[Pegasus Award]] (best adaptation, with [[Anne Passovoy]]) (1998)
* [[Prometheus Award]] (five wins including the Hall of Fame award as well as Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001)<ref name="WWE-Prometheus">{{cite web |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/books_prometheus_index.asp |title=Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: Complete Prometheus Award novel listing |work=Worlds Without End |access-date=2024-02-13}}</ref>
* [[SFWA Grand Master]] (1997)<ref name=SFWA />
* [[EMP Museum#Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame|Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame]] (2000)<ref name=sfhof-old />
* Asteroid [[7758 Poulanderson]], discovered by [[Eleanor Helin]] at [[Palomar Observatory|Palomar]] in 1990, was named in his honor.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official {{MoMP|7758|naming citation}} was published by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on September 2, 2001, a month after his death ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 43381}}).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />


== Bibliography ==
* <b><i>Harvest of Stars</i></b>
{{main|Poul Anderson bibliography}}
** <cite>Harvest of Stars</cite> (1993)
{{see also|:Category:Works by Poul Anderson}}
** <cite>The Stars Are Also Fire</cite> (1994)
** <cite>Harvest the Fire</cite> (1995)
** <cite>The Fleet of Stars</cite> (1997)


==== Novels ====
== See also ==
* {{Portal-inline|Speculative fiction}}
* <cite>Vault of the Ages</cite> (1952)
* <cite>Brain Wave</cite> (1954)
* <cite>The Broken Sword</cite> (1954)
* <cite>Planet of No Return</cite> (1954)
* <cite>No World of Their Own</cite> (1955)
* <cite>The Man Who Counts</cite> (1958)
* <cite>Perish by the Sword</cite> (1959)
* <cite>War of Two Worlds</cite> (1959)
* <cite>We Have Fed Our Seas</cite>
* <cite>The High Crusade</cite> (1960)
* <cite>Murder in Black Letter</cite> (1960)
* <cite>Twilight World</cite> (1961)
* <cite>After Doomsday</cite> (1962)
* <cite>The Makeshift Rocket</cite> (1962) (Expansion of "A Bicycle Built for Brew")
* <cite>Murder Bound</cite> (1962)
* <cite>Let the Spacemen Beware!</cite> (1963)
* <cite>Shield</cite> (1963)
* <cite>Three Worlds to Conquer</cite> (1964)
* <cite>The Corridors of Time</cite> (1965)
* <cite>The Star Fox</cite> (1965)
* <cite>The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck</cite> (1966)
* <cite>World Without Stars</cite> (1966)
* <cite>Tales of the Flying Mountains</cite> (1970)
* <cite>Tau Zero</cite> (1970) (expansion of "To Outlive Eternity")
* <cite>The Byworlder</cite> (1971)
* <cite>The Dancer from Atlantis</cite> (1971)
* <cite>Operation Chaos</cite> (1971)
* <cite>Hrolf Kraki's Saga</cite> (1973)
* <cite>There Will Be Time</cite> (1973)
* <cite>Fire Time</cite> (1974)
* <cite>Inheritors of Earth</cite> (1974) with Gordon Eklund
* <cite>The Winter of the World</cite> (1975)
* <cite>The Avatar</cite> (1978)
* <cite>The Demon of Scattery</cite> (1979) with Mildred Downey Broxon
* <cite>The Merman's Children</cite> (1979)
* <cite>Conan the Rebel</cite> (1980)
* <cite>The Devil's Game</cite> (1980)
* <cite>The King of Ys 2: Gallicenae</cite> (1987) with Karen Anderson
* <cite>The King of Ys: Dahut</cite> (1988) with Karen Anderson
* <cite>The Boat of a Million Years</cite> (1989)
* <cite>No Truce with Kings</cite> (1989)
* <cite>The Saturn Game</cite> (1989)
* <cite>The Longest Voyage</cite> (1991)
* <cite>War of the Gods</cite> (1997)
* <cite>Starfarers</cite> (1998)
* <cite>Operation Luna</cite> (1999)
* <cite>Genesis</cite> (2000)
* <cite>Mother of Kings</cite> (2001)


==== Collections ====
== Explanatory notes ==
{{Notelist}}
* <cite>Orbit Unlimited</cite> (1961)
* <cite>Strangers from Earth</cite> (1961)
* <cite>Twilight World</cite> (1961)
* <cite>Un-Man and Other Novellas</cite> (1962)
* <cite>Time and Stars</cite> (1964)
* <cite>The Star Fox</cite> (1965)
* <cite>The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin</cite> (1966)
* <cite>The Horn of Time</cite> (1968)
* <cite>Beyond the Beyond</cite> (1969)
* <cite>Seven Conquests</cite> (1969)
* <cite>Tales of the Flying Mountains</cite> (1970)
* <cite>Operation Chaos</cite> (1971)
* <cite>The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories</cite> (1973)
* <cite>The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson</cite> (1974) - Edited by Roger Elwood
* <cite>The Worlds of Poul Anderson</cite> (1974)
* <cite>Homeward and Beyond</cite> (1975)
* <cite>The Best of Poul Anderson</cite></cite> (1976)
* <cite>Homebrew</cite> (1976)
* <cite>The Night Face & Other Stories</cite> (1979)
* <cite>The Dark Between the Stars</cite> (1981)
* <cite>Explorations</cite> (1981)
* <cite>Fantasy</cite> (1981)
* <cite>The Guardians of Time</cite> (1981)
* <cite>Winners</cite> (1981) (a collection of Anderson's Hugo-winners)
* <cite>Cold Victory</cite> (1982)
* <cite>The Gods Laughed</cite> (1982)
* <cite>Maurai & Kith</cite> (1982)
* <cite>New America</cite> (1982)
* <cite>Starship</cite> (1982)
* <cite>The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness</cite> (1982)
* <cite>Conflict</cite> (1983)
* <cite>The Long Night</cite> (1983)
* <cite>Past Times</cite> (1984)
* <cite>The Unicorn Trade</cite> (1984) with Karen Anderson
* <cite>Dialogue With Darkness</cite> (1985)
* <cite>Space Folk</cite> (1989)
* <cite>The Shield of Time</cite> (1990)
* <cite>Alight in the Void</cite> (1991)
* <cite>The Armies of Elfland</cite> (1991)
* <cite>Inconstant Star</cite> (1991) - Stories set in Larry Niven's Man-Kzin universe.
* <cite>Kinship with the Stars</cite> (1991)
* <cite>All One Universe</cite> (1996)
* <cite>Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!</cite> (1998) with Gordon R. Dickson
* <cite>Going for Infinity</cite>


==== Omnibus ====
== References ==
{{reflist|30em|refs=
* <cite>The Worlds of Poul Anderson</cite> (1974)
* <cite>Operation Otherworld</cite> (1999)


<ref name=isfdb>
{{ISFDB name |3}} (ISFDB). Retrieved April 22, 2013.</ref>


<ref name=SFAwards>
==== Anthologies ====
[http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit3.html#109 "Anderson, Poul"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016200524/http://locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/NomLit3.html |date=October 16, 2012 }}.
* <cite>4 Nebula Award Stories 4</cite> (1969)
''The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees''. [[Locus Publications]]. Retrieved March 22, 2013.</ref>
* <cite>The Day the Sun Stood Still</cite> (1972) with Gordon R. Dickson and Robert Silverberg
* <cite>A World Named Cleopatra</cite> (1977)


<ref name=SFWA>
==== Non-Genre ====
[http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/events-program/grandmaster/ "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701114233/http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/nebula-weekend/events-program/grandmaster/ |date=July 1, 2011 }}. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved March 22, 2013.</ref>
* <cite>The Golden Slave</cite> (1960) - Historical novel
* <cite>Rogue Sword</cite> (1960) - Historical novel


<ref name=sfhof-old>
==== Serials ====
[http://www.midamericon.org/halloffame/ "Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521070009/http://www.midamericon.org/halloffame/ |date=May 21, 2013 }}. Mid American Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions, Inc. Retrieved March 22, 2013. This was the official website of the hall of fame to 2004.</ref>
* <cite>No Truce With Kings</cite> (1963)

<ref name="MPC-object">{{cite web
|title = 7758 Poulanderson (1990 KT)
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=7758
|access-date = November 21, 2019}}</ref>

<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive">{{cite web
|title = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
|work = Minor Planet Center
|url = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
|access-date = November 21, 2019}}</ref>

}} <!-- end of reflist -->

== Sources ==
{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite book |author=Miesel, Sandra |title=Against Time's Arrow: The High Crusade of Poul Anderson |publisher=[[Borgo Press]] |year=1978 |isbn=0-89370-124-6 |author-link=Sandra Miesel}}
* {{cite book |last=Tuck |first=Donald H. |author-link=Donald H. Tuck |title=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy |location=Chicago |publisher=Advent |pages=8–10 |year=1974 |isbn=0-911682-20-1}}
{{Refend}}

==External links==
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{{Commons category|Poul Anderson}}
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/poul-anderson/ Bio, bibliography and book covers] at FantasticFiction
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050912025742/http://www.sfwa.org/news/panderson.htm Obituary and tributes] from the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America|SFWA]]
* [http://poulandersonappreciation.blogspot.com/ Poul Anderson Appreciation], by Dr. Paul Shackley
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060317035846/http://www.dpsinfo.com/williamtenn/poulanderson.html Poul Anderson], an essay by [[William Tenn]]
* [http://www.sca.org/ The Society for Creative Anachronism], of which Poul Anderson was a founding member
* [http://www.fantasyliterature.net/andersonpoul.html ''The King of Ys'' review at FantasyLiterature.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917122551/http://www.fantasyliterature.net/andersonpoul.html |date=September 17, 2008 }}
* {{Sfhof |920 |Poul Anderson}}
* {{LCAuth|n79044004|Poul Anderson|135|}}
* {{ISFDB name|3}}
* {{IBList|type=author|id=594|name=Poul Anderson}}

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* {{StandardEbooks|Standard Ebooks URL=https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/poul-anderson}}
* {{Gutenberg author |id=25203 | name=Poul Anderson}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Poul Anderson |sopt=t}}
* {{Librivox author |id=149}}
* {{OL author}}
* [http://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/on-thud-and-blunder/ On Thud and Blunder], an essay by Anderson on fantasy fiction, from the SFWA
* [https://www.freesfonline.net/authors/Poul_Anderson.html Poul Anderson's online fiction] at Free Speculative Fiction Online
* [http://www.sfwa.org/hidden-pages/estates-contact-information/ SFWA directory of literary estates]

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For other people with similar names, see Poul Andersen (disambiguation) and Paul Anderson.

Poul Anderson
Anderson at Polcon in 1985
Anderson at Polcon in 1985
BornPoul William Anderson
(1926-11-25)November 25, 1926
Bristol, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedJuly 31, 2001(2001-07-31) (aged 74)
Orinda, California, U.S.[1][2]
Pen nameA. A. Craig
Michael Karageorge
Winston P. Sanders
P. A. Kingsley[3]
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1948–2001
GenreScience fiction
Fantasy
Mystery
Historical fiction
Notable works

Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001)[4] was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001. Anderson also wrote historical novels. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, and was nominated many more times for awards.[5][6]

Biography

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Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania to Danish parents.[7] Soon after his birth, his father, Anton Anderson, relocated the family to Texas, where they lived for more than ten years. After Anton Anderson's death, his widow took the children to Denmark. The family returned to the United States after the beginning of World War II, settling eventually on a Minnesota farm.

While he was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, Anderson's first stories were published by editor John W. Campbell in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction: "Tomorrow's Children" by Anderson and F. N. Waldrop in March 1947 and a sequel, "Chain of Logic" by Anderson alone, in July.[a] He earned his BA in physics with honors but became a freelance writer after he graduated in 1948. His third story was printed in the December Astounding.[8]

Anderson married Karen Kruse in 1953 and relocated with her to the San Francisco Bay area.[9] Their daughter Astrid (later married to science fiction author Greg Bear[10]) was born in 1954[citation needed]. They made their home in Orinda, California.[11] Over the years Poul gave many readings at The Other Change of Hobbit bookstore in Berkeley; his widow later donated his typewriter and desk to the store.[citation needed]

In 1954, he published the fantasy novel The Broken Sword, one of his most known works.

In 1965, Algis Budrys said that Anderson "has for some time been science fiction's best storyteller".[12] He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) in 1966 and of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), also during the mid-1960s. The latter was a group of Heroic fantasy authors organized by Lin Carter, originally eight in number, with entry by credentials as a fantasy writer alone. Anderson was the sixth President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972.

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.[13][14]

The Science Fiction Writers of America made Anderson its 16th SFWA Grand Master in 1998.[15] In 2000's fifth class, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame as one of two deceased and two living writers.[16]

He died of prostate cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. A few of his novels were first published posthumously.

Awards, honors and nominations

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Anderson's novella Witch of the Demon Seas (published under his "A. A. Craig" byline) was the cover story in the January 1951 issue of Planet Stories.
Anderson's novelette "Inside Earth" was the cover story in the April 1951 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.

Bibliography

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Main article: Poul Anderson bibliography
See also: Category:Works by Poul Anderson

See also

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Explanatory notes

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  1. ^ Anderson continued his first two stories more than a decade later. He added a novella and an epilogue, constituting the collection of four pieces (termed a novel), Twilight World: A Science Fiction Novel of Tomorrow's Children (Dodd, Mead). Waldrop was not credited.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Douglas Martin (August 3, 2001). "Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74". The New York Times. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  2. ^ Harris M. Lentz III (2008). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre ... McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. ISBN 9780786452064. Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  3. ^ Lee Gold. "Tracking Down The First Deliberate Use Of "Filk Song"". Retrieved August 11, 2007.
  4. ^ David V Barrett (August 4, 2001). "Obituary: Poul Anderson (Prolific writer of science fiction's golden age)". The Guardian. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Pennsylvania Center for the Book". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
  6. ^ a b "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: Complete Nebula Award novel listing". Worlds Without End. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  7. ^ Barrett, David V. (August 6, 2001). "Poul Anderson: Prolific Writer of Science Fiction's Golden Age". The Guardian. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  8. ^ a b Poul Anderson at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB). Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  9. ^ Martin, Douglas (August 3, 2001). "Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  10. ^ Holland, Steve (December 29, 2022). "Greg Bear obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  11. ^ "Writer Poul Anderson, 74, Dies". Washington Post. August 3, 2001. Retrieved January 31, 2024.
  12. ^ Budrys, Algis (February 1965). "Galaxy Bookshelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 153–159.
  13. ^ Heinlein, Robert A (1986). The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. New England Library. ISBN 0-450-39315-1.
  14. ^ Heinlein's Dedications Page Jane Davitt & Tim Morgan. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
  15. ^ a b "Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master" Archived July 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). Retrieved March 22, 2013.
  16. ^ a b "Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame" Archived May 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Mid American Science Fiction and Fantasy Conventions, Inc. Retrieved March 22, 2013. This was the official website of the hall of fame to 2004.
  17. ^ "Anderson, Poul" Archived October 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. The Locus Index to SF Awards: Index of Literary Nominees. Locus Publications. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
  18. ^ "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: 2000 Award Winners & Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved March 28, 2009.
  19. ^ "Inkpot Award". December 6, 2012.
  20. ^ "Anderson, Poul". The Locus Index to SF Awards: Locus Award Nominees List. Locus Publications. Archived from the original on May 14, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2009.
  21. ^ "Mythopoeic Society Award Winners". Mythopoeic Society.
  22. ^ "Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Award: Complete Prometheus Award novel listing". Worlds Without End. Retrieved February 13, 2024.
  23. ^ "7758 Poulanderson (1990 KT)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  24. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved November 21, 2019.

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