Campbell Memorial award, a Pegasus award and four Prometheus awards. Though his fiction is usually devoid of deeeper psychological insights, Anderson tends to focus on larger political and social conflicts emerging from time-travel, terra-forming and the temptations of power contained in those endeavors.Īnderson has earned a variety of awards including seven Hugos (noms and wins), three Nebulas, the John W. The great events of his time, i.e., the Cold War, Vietnam and the student protest movement are heavily present in his work. His work is replete with his evolving political views ranging from liberal to conservative and eventually resting in a libertarian outlook. For the former this is evidenced in his many space/time travel novels and in the latter in such works as Tao Zero and "Sorrows of Odin the Goth". The bestselling author of such classic novels as Brain Wave and The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson is one of the more prolific and well known of the hard science fiction writers, though he explored the fantasy genre and dabbled in non-fiction as well.Įducated as a physcist (University of Minnesota, 1948) and of Scandanavian orgin, Anderson's work is suffused with these important influences. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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