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Admiralty
Admiralty
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Admiralty: The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson (volume 4) continues the series of presenting the best of his fantasy and science fiction stories published over a writing career of 50 years. It includes “Admiralty”, a story in the foreseeable future when man has colonies on other planets and is in conflict with an alien empire, “Goat Song”, the Hugo and Nebula award winning story about a man’s determination to bring his lost love back to life, “Operation Changeling”, a world where magic and demons co-exist, “Delenda Est”, a story of the time patrol and the choices that must be made to keep our existence intact, “The Adventure of the Misplaced Hound”, co-written with Gordon R. Dickson, where the aliens are living on their own planet, a portion of which is created as Victorian England with Scotland Yard and Sherlock Holmes, “Marius”, which shows that the only thing we lean from history is history, and the delightful “Inside Straight”, in which an understanding of poker defeats an invasion.

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Release dateOct 26, 2021
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Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926–2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his “hard” science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and “fantasy with rivets,” he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he has received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or “Wanderer,” Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 1952 he met Karen Kruse; they married in Berkeley, California, where their daughter, Astrid, was born, and they later lived in Orinda, California. Astrid and her husband, science fiction author Greg Bear, now live with their family outside Seattle.

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