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Poul William Anderson – amerykański pisarz science fiction i fantasy.

Używał pseudonimów A.A. Craig, Michael Karegeorge, Winston P. Sanders.

Jego rodzice pochodzili z Danii, ojciec nosił nazwisko Andersen, ale w czasie służby wojskowej w czasie I wojny światowej zmienił na bardziej anglosaskie „Anderson”. Przez krótki okres swojego życia, po śmierci ojca, Poul mieszkał z matką w Danii. Rodzina wróciła do Stanów po wybuchu II wojny światowej.

Wychował się w Teksasie i Minnesocie. W roku 1948 ukończył fizykę na Uniwersytecie Minnesota. Interesował się również historią, językiem i literaturą rodzinnego kraju rodziców. Wiedzę tę wykorzystał później w swojej książkach. Poruszał się swobodnie zarówno w tak zwanej twardej fantastyce, jak i w fantasy.

Jego córka, Astrid, wyszła za mąż za znanego pisarza s-f Grega Beara.

Debiut literacki Andersona to opowiadanie napisane wspólnie z F.N. Waldropem Tomorrow’s Children w 1947. Był członkiem Fantasy Society w Minneapolis, gdzie początkowo mieszkał. W 1952 roku wydał pierwszą powieść Vault of the Ages. Był redaktorem i wydawcą wielu książek.

Był szóstym przewodniczącym Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, przejmując urząd w 1972.

Zmarł na raka 31 lipca 2001 po miesięcznym pobycie w szpitalu. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Listopad 1926 – 31. Lipiec 2001
Poul Anderson Fotografia
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Poul Anderson słynne cytaty

„Jeden człowiek nie może zmienić historii.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

Postać: Thornberg
Sam Hall

„Och, zabiłem człowieka, tak mówili, tak mówili.
Tak zabiłem człowieka, tak mówili, tak mówili
Rąbnąłem go w łeb
I porzuciłem, żeby skapiał
Tak, porzuciłem, żeby skapiał
Niech Bóg przeklnie jego oczy.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

Now I killed a man they said
So they said, so they said
Oh I killed a man they said
Yes they said
I killed a man they said
And I left him layin dead
Cause I bashed his bloody head
Blast his eyes. (ang.)
Sam Hall
Źródło: Sam Hall, ludowa piosenka angielska

Poul Anderson: Cytaty po angielsku

“I have learned much in two thousand years, but nothing about any gods, except that they too, arise, change, age, and die. Whatever there is beyond the universe, if anything, I doubt it concerns itself with us.”

Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 7 “The Same Kind”, Section 2 (p. 140)

“He had intended to say that such was the nature of power. Seizing it and holding it were alike filthy.”

Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 5 “No Man Shuns His Doom”, Section 1 (p. 106)

“Nothing in excess, including self-denial.”

Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 2 “The Peaches of Forever” (p. 29)

“What else is life but always bidding farewell?”

Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 1 “Thule”, Section 8 (p. 21)

“Do you actually hope to convert the whole of mankind?”

Poul Anderson książka There Will Be Time

“Belay that! Anyhow, if you mean, Do we hope to make everybody into copies of us? The answer is, No. Mind, I’m not in Parliament or Admiralty, but I follow debates and I read the philosophers. One trouble with the old machine culture was that, by its nature, it did force people to become more and more alike. Not only did this fail in the end—disastrously—but to the extent it succeeded, it was a worse disaster.” Lohannaso smote the rail with a mighty fist. “Damnation, Thomas! We need all the diversity, all the assorted ways of living and looking and thinking, we can get!”
Źródło: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 119)

“Your son was in your own tradition.”

Poul Anderson książka The Enemy Stars

“Better, I hope,” said the old man. “There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.”
Źródło: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 150)

“Let’s stop making wild guesses and start gathering data.”

Poul Anderson

Epilogue (p. 122)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)

“Anderson demonstrates that if one accepts a sham mystery as real, one has stopped or strayed in the search for truth, and truth has survival value.”

Poul Anderson

Patrick L. McGuire, Her Strong Enchantments Failing (p. 94)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)

“Mystery is in a way the guarantee of the boundlessness of the might of the ruler: power bound to reason must always have limitations, great though it may be.”

Poul Anderson

Patrick L. McGuire, Her Strong Enchantments Failing (p. 94)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)

“One can surrender one’s rational will to beliefs or habits as easily as to individuals, for essentially the same reasons, and with essentially the same results. Ideas have a mystery and power of their own.”

Poul Anderson

Patrick L. McGuire, Her Strong Enchantments Failing (p. 93; this work is an essay about Anderson's story The Queen of Air and Darkness).
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)

“You were right. We should never have created science. It brought the twilight of the race.”

Poul Anderson

“I never said that. The race brought its own destruction, through misuse of science. Our culture was scientific anyway, in all except its psychological basis. It’s up to us to take that last and hardest step. If we do, the race may yet survive.”
Tomorrow's Children (p. 34)
Short fiction, The Book of Poul Anderson (1975)

“It was true. Men died and civilization died, but before they died they lived. It was not altogether futile.”

Poul Anderson

Cold Victory, in Scithers &amp; Schweitzer (eds.) Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, p. 181. Originally appeared in Venture Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Science_Fiction, May 1957 <br class="br">Short fiction

“I was not speaking of minor ripples in the mainstream of history—certainly those are ruled by chance. But the broad current moves quite inexorably, I assure you.”

Poul Anderson

Cold Victory, in Scithers &amp; Schweitzer (eds.) Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, p. 181. Originally appeared in Venture Science Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_Science_Fiction, May 1957 <br class="br">Short fiction

“Not that any simple principle exists, and not that I couldn’t be wrong. But it seems to me—well, that which we are, our society or culture or what you want to name it, has a life and a right of its own.”

Poul Anderson książka The People of the Wind

He drew breath. “Best beloved,” he said, “if communities didn’t resist encroachments, they’d soon be swallowed by the biggest and greediest. Wouldn’t they? In the end, dead sameness. No challenges, no inspirations from somebody else’s way. What service is it to life if we let that happen?

Chapter 19 (p. 175)
The People of the Wind (1973)

“The best foundation that a decision is ever allowed is our fallible assessment of the probabilities.”

Poul Anderson książka The People of the Wind

Źródło: The People of the Wind (1973), Chapter 17 (p. 161)

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