![]() ![]() Classic short works include "Call Me Joe" (1957), "Kyrie" (1968), "The Queen of Air and Darkness" (1971), "Goat Song" (1972), and "The Saturn Game" (1981). He was a master of the novella, and wrote numerous series of stories (and novels) including the Technic History series, involving Dominic Flandry and Nicholas Van Rijn the Psychotechnic League series and the Time Patrol series. He was equally at home in shorter fiction. ![]() He was prolific and outstanding in all types of SF and fantasy, from the super-hard science of Brain Wave (1954) and Tau Zero (1970), to the Nordic sagas of The Broken Sword (1954) and Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1973) to the High fantasy of Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961) and The King of Ys (1988 with Karen Anderson), as well as humor Earthman's Burden (1957 with Gordon R. He was a Grand Master of the SFWA and an inductee to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He won seven Hugo Awards, 3 Nebulas, and too many other awards to list here. Poul Anderson, 74, died around midnight, July 31st at his home in Orinda, California (near San Francisco) from the effects of prostate cancer.Īnderson was one of the most famous and respected writers of SF and fantasy. Poul Anderson and Karen Anderson (1999), photo by Greg Bear ![]()
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