Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson è stato un autore americano affermato, noto per i suoi contributi alla fantascienza, alla fantasy e alla narrativa storica. Nato nel 1926, Anderson è cresciuto in una famiglia bilingue di lingua danese e americana, il che lo ha esposto a culture e tradizioni diverse fin dalla tenera età. Questa educazione, combinata con la sua laurea in fisica presso l'Università del Minnesota, ha influenzato notevolmente la sua scrittura, in particolare la sua fantascienza.

Anderson ha iniziato la sua carriera di scrittore durante l'età d'oro della fantascienza ed è rapidamente diventato riconosciuto per la sua fantascienza hard, i misteri, i romanzi storici e quello che ha definito "fantasy con bulloni". La sua capacità di creare personaggi riflessivi e ben sviluppati, combinata con la sua competenza scientifica, lo ha distinto dalla maggior parte dei suoi coetanei. Nel corso della sua carriera, Anderson ha pubblicato più di 100 romanzi e racconti, guadagnandosi numerosi premi e riconoscimenti.

Alcuni dei premi più notevoli di Anderson includono sette premi Hugo, tre premi Nebula, il premio Gandalf, il premio Seiun e il premio Strannik, o "Wanderer". Oltre a queste singole onorificenze, è stato anche un membro fondatore della Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ed è stato nominato Maestro dalla stessa organizzazione. Nel 2010 è stato introdotto nella Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Anderson non era solo un autore di successo, ma anche un uomo di famiglia dedicato. Nel 1953, ha sposato Karen Kruse e hanno avuto una figlia, Astrid, che è sposata con l'autore di science fiction Greg Bear. La coppia vive ora con la loro famiglia vicino a Seattle, mantenendo viva l'eredità della scrittura di science fiction e fantasy.
Flandry Books
# Titolo Anno
1 We Claim These Stars 1959
2 Earthman, Go Home! 1960
3 Mayday Orbit 1961
4 Agent of the Terran Empire 1965
5 Flandry of Terra 1965
6 Ensign Flandry 1966
7 The Rebel Worlds / Commander Flandry 1969
8 A Circus of Hells 1970
9 The Day of Their Return 1973
10 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows / Knight Flandry 1975
11 A Stone In Heaven 1979
12 The Long Night 1983
13 The Game of Empire 1985
14 Tiger by the Tail! 2010
Flandry Series in Chronological Order
# Titolo Anno
1 Ensign Flandry 1966
2 A Circus of Hells 1970
3 The Rebel Worlds / Commander Flandry 1969
4 The Day of Their Return 1973
5 Agent of the Terran Empire 1965
6 Flandry of Terra 1965
7 A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows / Knight Flandry 1975
8 A Stone In Heaven 1979
9 The Game of Empire 1985
10 We Claim These Stars 1959
11 Earthman, Go Home! 1960
12 Mayday Orbit 1961
13 Tiger by the Tail! 2010
14 The Long Night 1983
Future History Of The Polesotechnic League Books
# Titolo Anno
1 War of the Wing-Men / The Man Who Counts 1958
2 Trader to the Stars 1964
3 The Trouble Twisters 1966
4 Satan's World 1968
5 The People of the Wind 1973
6 Mirkheim 1977
7 The Earth Book of Stormgate 1978
Future History Of The Polesotechnic League Series in Chronological Order
# Titolo Anno
1 War of the Wing-Men / The Man Who Counts 1958
2 Trader to the Stars 1964
3 The Trouble Twisters 1966
4 Satan's World 1968
5 The Earth Book of Stormgate 1978
6 Mirkheim 1977
7 The People of the Wind 1973
Hadding Books
# Titolo Anno
1 War of the Gods 1997
Harvest Of Stars Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Harvest of Stars 1993
2 The Stars are Also Fire 1994
3 Harvest the Fire 1995
4 The Fleet of Stars 1997
Hoka Books (with Gordon R. Dickson)
# Titolo Anno
1 Earthman's Burden 1957
2 Star Prince Charlie 1975
3 Hoka! 1983
4 Hokas Pokas! 2000
Hoka Collections (with Gordon R. Dickson)
# Titolo Anno
1 Hoka! Hoka! Hoka! 1983
Holger Danske Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Three Hearts and Three Lions 1953
2 A Midsummer Tempest 1974
King Of Ys Books (with Karen Anderson)
# Titolo Anno
1 Roma Mater 1986
2 The Gallicenae 1987
3 Dahut 1988
4 The Dog and the Wolf 1988
Last Viking Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Golden Horn 1980
2 The Road of the Sea Horse 1980
3 The Sign of the Raven 1980
Maurai Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Horn of Time 1968
2 There Will Be Time 1972
3 Maurai & Kith 1982
4 Orion Shall Rise 1983
Millenium Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Legacy of Lehr 1986
2 Chess With A Dragon 1987
3 A Dark Traveling 1987
4 Project Pendulum 1987
5 The Forever City 1988
6 The Year of the Ransom 1988
7 Joe Gosh 1988
8 A Place of Silver Silence 1988
9 The Homecoming 1989
10 Hong on the Range 1989
Operation Otherworld Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Operation Chaos 1971
2 Operation Luna 1999
Psychotechnic League Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Peregrine / Star Ways 1956
2 The Snows of Ganymede 1958
3 Virgin Planet 1959
4 The Psycho-technic League 1981
5 Cold Victory 1982
6 Starship 1982
Psychotechnic League Series in Chronological Order
# Titolo Anno
1 The Psycho-technic League 1981
2 Cold Victory 1982
3 The Snows of Ganymede 1958
4 Starship 1982
5 Virgin Planet 1959
6 The Peregrine / Star Ways 1956
Time Patrol Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Guardians of Time 1955
2 Time Patrolman 1983
3 The Shield of Time 1990
Trygve Yamamura Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Perish by the Sword 1959
2 Murder in Black Letter 1960
3 Murder Bound 1962
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 Vault of the Ages 1952
2 The War of Two Worlds 1953
3 Brainwave 1954
4 The Broken Sword 1954
5 No World of Their Own / The Long Way Home 1955
6 Planet of No Return / Question and Answer 1956
7 The Enemy Stars / We Have Fed Our Seas 1958
8 Rogue Sword 1960
9 The High Crusade 1960
10 The Golden Slave 1960
11 Twilight World 1961
12 The Makeshift Rocket 1962
13 After Doomsday 1962
14 Shield 1963
15 Let the Spacemen Beware! / The Night Face 1963
16 Three Worlds To Conquer 1964
17 The Star Fox 1965
18 The Corridors of Time 1965
19 World Without Stars 1967
20 Tau Zero 1970
21 The Dancer From Atlantis 1971
22 The Byworlder 1971
23 Hrolf Kraki's Saga 1973
24 Inheritors of Earth 1974
25 Fire Time 1974
26 Homeward and Beyond 1975
27 The Winter of the World 1975
28 Two Worlds 1978
29 The Avatar 1978
30 The Merman's Children 1979
31 The Demon of Scattery 1979
32 The Devil's Game 1980
33 The Gods Laughed 1982
34 New America 1982
35 Maurai and Kith 1982
36 No Truce with Kings & Ship of Shadows 1989
37 The Boat of a Million Years 1989
38 Inconstant Star 1990
39 Alight in the Void 1991
40 Genesis 1995
41 Starfarers 1998
42 Mother of Kings 2001
43 For Love and Glory 2003
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 Duel on Syrtis 1951
2 Inside Earth 1951
3 Security 1953
4 The Sensitive Man 1954
5 The Burning Bridge 1960
6 Industrial Revolution 1963
7 The Fox, the Dog, and the Griffin 1966
8 Losers' Night 1998
9 Going for Infinity 2002
10 The Valor of Cappen Varra 2010
11 Sentiment, Inc. 2010
Raccolte di racconti
# Titolo Anno
1 Orbit Unlimited 1961
2 Strangers From Earth 1961
3 The Makeshift Rocket & Un-Man and Other Novellas 1962
4 Time and Stars 1964
5 Seven Conquests 1969
6 Beyond the Beyond 1969
7 Tales of the Flying Mountains 1970
8 The Queen of Air and Darkness and Other Stories 1971
9 The Book of Poul Anderson / The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson 1974
10 Homebrew 1976
11 The Best of Poul Anderson 1976
12 The Night Face and Other Stories 1978
13 Fantasy 1981
14 Explorations 1981
15 The Dark Between Stars 1981
16 Winners 1981
17 Conflict 1983
18 Past Times 1984
19 The Unicorn Trade 1984
20 Dialogue with Darkness 1985
21 Space Folk 1989
22 Kinship with the Stars 1991
23 Armies of Elfland 1992
24 All One Universe 1996
25 To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories 2007
26 The Valor of Cappen Varra and Two Other Science Fiction Tales 2009
27 Two Worlds of Poul Anderson: Science Fiction from the Golden Age 2010
28 Fragile and Distant Suns 2010
29 Swordsmen from the Stars 2020
Collected Short Works Of Poul Anderson Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Call Me Joe 2009
2 The Queen of Air and Darkness 2009
3 The Saturn Game 2010
4 Admiralty 2011
5 Door to Anywhere 2013
6 A Bicycle Built for Brew 2014
7 Question and Answer 2017
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Is There Life on Other Worlds? 1968
2 The Infinite Voyage 1969
3 Writing & Selling Science Fiction 1977
Conan (Lancer/Ace) Books
# Titolo Anno
1 The Return of Conan 1957
2 Conan the Adventurer 1966
3 Conan the Warrior 1967
4 Conan the Usurper 1967
5 Conan the Conqueror 1967
6 Conan the Avenger 1968
7 Conan of the Isles 1968
8 Conan 1968
9 Conan the Freebooter 1968
10 Conan the Wanderer 1968
11 Conan of Cimmeria 1969
12 Conan the Buccaneer 1971
13 Conan of Aquilonia 1977
14 Conan the Swordsman 1978
15 Conan and the Sorcerer 1978
16 Conan the Liberator 1979
17 Conan: The Road of Kings 1979
18 Conan: The Sword of Skelos 1979
19 Conan and the Spider God 1980
20 Conan the Rebel 1980
21 Conan the Mercenary 1981
The Pulp Writers Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Anthology of Sci-Fi V1 2013
2 Anthology of Sci-Fi, the Pulp Writers V1 2013
3 Anthology of Sci-Fi V2 2013
4 Anthology of Sci-Fi V3 2013
5 Anthology of Sci-Fi V4 2013
6 Anthology of Sci-Fi V5 2013
7 Anthology of Sci-Fi V6 2013
8 Anthology of Sci-Fi V7 2013
9 Anthology of Sci-Fi V5, the Pulp Writers - Alan E. Nourse 2013
10 Anthology of Sci-Fi V8 2013
11 Anthology of Sci-Fi V9 2013
12 Anthology of Sci-Fi V10 2013
13 Anthology of Sci-Fi V11 2013
14 Anthology of Sci-Fi V12 2013
15 Anthology of Sci-Fi V13 2013
16 Anthology of Sci-Fi V15 2013
17 Anthology of Sci-Fi V17 2013
18 Anthology of Sci-Fi V18 2013
19 Anthology of Sci-Fi V19 2013
20 Anthology of Sci-Fi V20 2013
21 Anthology of Sci-Fi V22 2013
22 Anthology of Sci-Fi V24 2013
The Hugo Winners Books (with Anne McCaffrey, with Isaac Asimov, with Robert Bloch, with Harlan Ellison, with Robert Silverberg, with Philip Jose Farmer, with Fritz Leiber, with Samuel R. Delany)
# Titolo Anno
1 1955 to 1961 1962
2 1973 1979
3 1976 - 1979 1985
4 1980 - 1982 1986
5 1986-1988 1990
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Books (with Robert Silverberg, with James Blish, with Clifford D. Simak, with Fritz Leiber, with Robert Sheckley, with Harry Harrison, with Roger Dee, with Anthony Gilmore, with Robert Hoskins, with Richard Rein Smith)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume VI 2016
2 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume IV 2018
3 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X 2018
Poul Anderson Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Astounding Science Fiction, November 1958 1958
2 Swords & Sorcery 1963
3 Alien Worlds 1964
4 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 1965 July 1965
5 Analog Science Fiction And Fact, March 1967 1967
6 Dangerous Visions 1967
7 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, August 1967 1967
8 Nebula Award Stories 4 1968
9 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1968 1968
10 Backdrop of Stars 1968
11 Tales of Time and Space 1969
12 Swords Against Tomorrow 1970
13 Never In This World 1971
14 Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1971 1971
15 The Day the Sun Stood Still 1972
16 More Stories from the Hugo Winners, Vol. 2 1973
17 The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 20th Series 1973
18 The Science Fiction Hall of Fame: Volume II A 1973
19 The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology / Astounding 1973
20 Continuum 2 1974
21 Wondermakers 2 1974
22 Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology 1974
23 Continuum 1 1974
24 Science Fiction Hall of Fame: The Novellas Book 1 1975
25 Beyond Tomorrow 1976
26 A World Named Cleopatra 1977
27 Study War No More 1977
28 Other Worlds Volume 1 1979
29 Get Out of My Sky 1980
30 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction 1980
31 Other Worlds Volume 2 1980
32 Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humor 1982
33 Mercenaries of Tomorrow 1983
34 Berserker Base 1985
35 Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton 1985
36 Terrorists of Tomorrow 1985
37 Barbarians 1986
38 Space Wars 1988
39 Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment 1988
40 Robert Adams' Book of Soldiers 1988
41 The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes 1989
42 A Separate Star: A Tribute to Rudyard Kipling 1989
43 Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories 1990
44 The Longest Voyage & Slowlightning 1991
45 The Night Fantastic 1991
46 Power 1991
47 After the King 1991
48 Murasaki 1992
49 The Science Fiction Century 1997
50 Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 2001 2001
51 Supermen 2002
52 The Hard SF Renaissance 2003
53 The World Turned Upside Down 2005
54 Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 2010
55 The Fleet 2011
56 Already Among Us 2012
57 Science Fiction Gems, Volume Four, Jack Sharkey and Others 2012
58 Contact: Stories of the New World 2013
59 Anthropomorphic Aliens 2014
60 Classic Martian Stories 2014
61 Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories 2015
62 Worst Contact 2016
63 The 12th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® 2016
64 The Realm of the Impossible 2017
65 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume XV 2018
66 The Golden Age of Science Fiction - Volume X 2018
67 Space Pioneers 2018
68 Born of the Sun: Adventures in Our Solar System 2020
69 Black Cat Weekly #29 2022