Meanwhile we follow other, smaller parts of humanity until, an unimaginable amount of time later the super-mind's of the galaxy become concerned that the mind, Gaia who is overseeing Earth in it's death throes has become erratic. When Christian Brannock goes into space, he starts as an engineer who works in simulated link with machines, later as the technology develops, at the end of his life he agrees to upload his intelligence into a computer and goes to the stars, helps pilot ships, establish colonies and eventually becomes a component in the huge, galactic size intelligences of the future. This gentle meandering investigation of the evolution of artificial intelligence is a story line that follows a loose plot, sometimes so loose you are not sure if they are separate stories though they all come together at the end. This was a very enjoyable read/listen from Blackstone audio, the narrator did a very good job of capturing the timber of Poul's writing but I think I might have enjoyed it more as a 'real' book than as an audio. * 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.
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