However, the main characters are pretty white-hat in the best traditions of good cops. The history bits are pretty great even if they're very classical. I have no complaints about the whole time cop thing going on in general. I'm rating this down for only one reason: it's somewhat bloodless. * Future history of the Polesotechnic League Several of his novels were published posthumously. Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear.

He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.Īnderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century.

The Corridors of Time by Poul Anderson