Some websites list this book as the second book in the Holger Danske (main character in Three Hearts and Three Lions) series, however, as he appears only in one short chapter in the middle of the book, it is perhaps a bit of a stretch.This book is similar in that it deals with an Earth history in...
Three Hearts and Three Lions is considered one of the classics of modern fantasy fiction. It contains all of the fundamental archetypes of the fantasy genre, and while it may seem cliché by today’s standards, it was original enough in 1953. Also, this novel is credited among the sources that infl...
Despite the corny cover art, this book was surprisingly good.The Foreword brings the main characters, who are on trial on Earth, into the chamber of a just judge, who asks them to tell their story.Then, most of the action takes place on Ishtar. It has three suns, one a red giant with an eccentric...
Live girlfleshLet me start by saying that I liked this book. With my 'internal' rating system, I'd give it four stars, but GoodReads informs me that this means I "really liked" a book and I think I just "liked" it, so I'm downgrading to three... Regardless, a VERY pleasurable read, a real page tu...
Prolific Grand Master Poul Anderson earned his place of honor within the hallowed halls of science fiction’s best and brightest. His work may not be as engagingly readable as Asimov, or as accessibly impactful as Clarke. He was never as politically-minded as Heinlein and his prose is not as slick...
Not the best Conan pastiche, but not the worst. Poul Anderson is a successful and prolific sci fi and fantasy author. He's a good writer and the result is a pretty well told story about everybody's favorite barbarian. However, not everything is roses in Hyboria.The most hilarious part of Conan...
Originally published on my blog here in May 2006.The Time Patrol stories of Poul Anderson are classics of the science fiction genre, dealing with the efforts of the eponymous group to maintain the status quo of history against the accidental or deliberate manipulations of other time travellers. T...
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/p...is three novellas plus connecting materials (http://www.locusmag.com/index/t271.htm) as six strangely titled parts jumping time. Excerpt has dated Sections. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISB... The Time Patrol travels time to set up outposts for study a...
I find Poul Anderson pretty uneven. I tend to either really like his books, or be left cold by them. I also tend to enjoy his fantasy much more than his science fiction (for which he is probably better known). This book is obviously in the former camp. For my money it's probably his best book (ev...
Given that the first story in the book Guardians of Time by SF grand master Poul Anderson, "Time Patrol" was published in 1955, and taking into account the technology of the period, that story and all the others in the Guardians of Time were an extremely impressive achievement, as well as a thoro...
ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.This review is for all four books in this series:The King of Ys is a historical fantasy -- it is set in our world just before the fall of the Roman Empire and it mixes in the legend of the mythical city of Ys which was built below sea level on the coast of ...
I'd read a few Poul Anderson Novellas in Hugo / Nebula Collections during my freshman year in College and found his blend of Social Commentary with Hard Science rather nice.That said, this book, his first "Large" book that I've read is a bit of a disappointment - not because of a lack of Sci Fi,...
If I wanted to read a philosophical diatribe about the nature of the human condition and the benefits of self-centered free market economics, I'd go read an Ayn Rand novel. As terribly boring and unconcerned with narrative structure as I have found Rand's fiction, I must say that Anderson combine...
It's a classic premise: someone of wealth gathers together a number of people who need money, and puts them through hell to get it. This book managed to bring a few new tricks to the idea. Simply reading the cover blurb and the first couple of chapters, one might think that the seven people ar...
Starfarers was one of Poul Anderson's last works, published in 1998 three years before the science-fiction author's death at the age of 74. It also looks back decades to his early career, incorporating the short story "Ghetto" that was published back in the 1950s. Its plot praises the human ambit...
I've loved discovering Poul Anderson's work. The Merman's Children is my least favourite of his work so far, but it's still compelling: easy to read, and you get through chunks of it without realising you have. It does have the occasional example of Poul Anderson's devotion to rendering accents p...
