Don't look for anything too deep, here. This is just Poul Anderson playing with ideas and spinning a delightful yarn.It's one I come back to and read again from time to time, and I read it with a smile on my face.
Very cool book. I'm glad I read this one, as it gives me an entirely new appreciation for the skills and vision of Poul Anderson. The only book of his I'd read previously was Three Hearts And Three Lions, and while that was a good book and surely deserves its place amongst the classics of the fantas...
I bought this collection of 33 science fiction stories because it was recommended in A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction on its "5 Parsec Shelf" of the best books in the genre. Here's what it said about the book: Anthologies, no matter how excellent, have seldom had enough impact to be "classics." B...
This is a tale of faerie--of elves and changelings in the age of Vikings and dealing with creatures of Norse myth in the rhythms of the sagas. In this Foreward, Anderson writes of how elves had become a thing diminished in grandeur and stature: In our day, J. R. R. Tolkien has restored the elves to...
This slim paperback of 144 pages contains 6 short works. In his introduction Anderson says the stories "are not related in the sense of projecting a single history of the future." They could be though--they read as fairly consistent with each other, projecting space-faring humans and colonies--but w...
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