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POUL ANDERSON

The Queen of Air
and Darkness

Poul ANDERSON was born November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, of
Scandinavian parents. Part of his youth was spent in Denmark. He returned
to the United States before World War II, and he sold his first story while
a
student at the University of Minnesota. When he graduated.with distinction,
in
1948, he decided to try to support himself for a time with his writing
before
seeking employment in his area of specialization, physics. That for a time
is
approaching twenty-five years with the end happily not in sight. In 1953
Anderson married Karen Kruse, herself an author of fiction and poetry. They
have one daughter, Astrid. They make their home in Orinda, California.

Anderson's dazzling versatility as a writer is reflected in James Blish's
description of him as ". . . the scientist, the technician, the stylist,
the bard, the
humanist and the humorist-a non-exhaustive list." He ranks as one of the
most prolific science fiction writers of all times (a recently compiled
bibliography, published in the April 1971 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy
and Science fiction, fills seven pages!). From poetry to novels to short
stories
to nonfiction books and articles on a variety of subjects, he brilliantly
combines the saga and song of his Scandinavian heritage with the searching
mind and speculative science of the scholar. He also finds time for such
varied activities as houseboat building, sailing, mountain climbing,
gardening,
chess, poker, Science Fiction Writers of America, Mystery Writers of
America, and the Society for
Creative Anachronism (where he is known as Bela of Eastmarch in its
medieval tourneys)-another non-exhaustive list.

Under his own name and his two pseudonyms, Winston P. Sanders and
Michael Karageorge, he is the author of some fifty books and perhaps
two hundred shorter items. His stories "No Truce with Kings," "The
Longest Voyage" and "The Sharing of Flesh" won Hugo Awards. His
mystery novel Perish by the Sword won the Cock Robin Award. Well-
known science fiction novels are Brain Wave, The High Crusade, Three
Hearts and Three Lions, Earthman's Burden (with Gordon R. Dickson), The
Broken Sword, Alter Doomsday and Tau Zero. Recently anthologized stories are
"Call Me Joe" (selected for inclusion in the SFWA Hall of Fame, Volume
2), "The Man Who Came Early," "Sam Hall," "Kings Who Die" and
"Journeys End." His Time Patrol series was collected in Guardians of