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To Outlive Eternity and Other Stories
From the aftermath of World War III to a world inherited by robots, where humans are unwelcome . . . from a handful of human survivors on a starship desperately searching for other ships carrying survivors of the destruction of the entire Earth by an unknown enemy, who may strike again at any time, to another starship hurtling through the cosmos at a speed so close to that of lightA"and unable to slow down"Athat relativistic effects make millennia fly by for each tick of the clock onboard . . . from a team striving to make Venus habitable for humans to a group of men who find the ominous secret behind a new quasi-religious philosophy that is sweeping the world. . . . The wide-ranging imagination and exciting storytelling of Poul Anderson brings many different worlds to vivid life in a great volume of his best stories that will thrill all fans of science fiction.
Contents:
1 • To Outlive Eternity • (1967) • novella by Poul Anderson
77 • No Truce with Kings • (1963) • novella by Poul Anderson
137 • Progress • [Maurai] • (1962) • novelette by Poul Anderson
183 • Un-Man • [Psychotechnic League] • (1953) • novella by Poul Anderson
265 • The Big Rain • [Psychotechnic League] • (1954) • novella by Poul Anderson
331 • After Doomsday • (1962) • novel by Poul Anderson
453 • Epilogue • (1962) • novella by Poul Anderson
Contents:
1 • To Outlive Eternity • (1967) • novella by Poul Anderson
77 • No Truce with Kings • (1963) • novella by Poul Anderson
137 • Progress • [Maurai] • (1962) • novelette by Poul Anderson
183 • Un-Man • [Psychotechnic League] • (1953) • novella by Poul Anderson
265 • The Big Rain • [Psychotechnic League] • (1954) • novella by Poul Anderson
331 • After Doomsday • (1962) • novel by Poul Anderson
453 • Epilogue • (1962) • novella by Poul Anderson
501 pages, Paperback
First published March 6, 2007
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About the author
Poul Anderson
1,587 books1,073 followersPseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.
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. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. 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. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. 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.[2][3]
Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.
Series:
* Time Patrol
* Psychotechnic League
* Trygve Yamamura
* Harvest of Stars
* King of Ys
* Last Viking
* Hoka
* Future history of the Polesotechnic League
* Flandry
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. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.
Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. 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. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. 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.[2][3]
Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.
Series:
* Time Patrol
* Psychotechnic League
* Trygve Yamamura
* Harvest of Stars
* King of Ys
* Last Viking
* Hoka
* Future history of the Polesotechnic League
* Flandry
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October 25, 2009
Unlike most of the Anderson books I've been (re)reading recently, this one is not one of his Technic Civilization series. Instead it's a collection of short stories that have nothing to do with that universe.
I won't go into each of the stories; suffice to say that if Poul Anderson wrote it, it's worth reading.
I won't go into each of the stories; suffice to say that if Poul Anderson wrote it, it's worth reading.
April 1, 2011
To Outlive Eternity-Good story, but all the tau information was confusing. Still, it was a good read.
No Truce with Kings-War story, which I don't like in any format, sci-fi or nonfiction. Especially these days, when my brother is going to be in Afghanistan soon and has already been forever changed going through Iraq.
The end was sad, b/c war takes away family members; even those who return come back so different it still feels like you lost something.
Curious, how the Bush girls were in the military but never went to Iraq. That makes the former president a bigger jerk for sending people to Iraq and making sure his daughters never had to go.
Fighting the war on terror must not have been as important as he said.
Progress-The hardest story I've ever read in terms of being able to understand what was happening, which I couldn't. Then I came to the end and found out was going on in the beginning, but I couldn't follow the plot w/out having read the end first. Which doesn't make ANY sense, and I felt confused or just plain lost until the very end where you get an explanation for all the sudden violent scenes in the beginning and middle.
I really disliked the story.
The Un-Man-Really good story, but I don't know why he had to use the word meretricious when he could have used a different, more heard-of word, to describe it.
Sometimes I think writers are as bad as doctors and other health care professionals who talk in big words around patients to feel like they're lodge members or something.
The Big Rain-Terrible unless you like war stories. Since my brother went to Iraq twice I really DON'T care for war stories. But I care even less for the fact that, in his stories, a plot will be going one way, then suddenly veers off the track and turns 180 degrees from what was happening 2 seconds before it jumped the track headed south and turned northward.
He's done that w/ 2 stories now. Both about war, both of which I didn't like.
After Doomsday-The guy is just way too obsessed w/ war stories if you ask me. If it keeps up this pattern, I'm not going to be able to read anything else he writes.
I'm not into war stories, and I wonder how many people are both into war stories and related to a Veteran of a foreign war?
My guess is not many.
Epilogue-This story was so good it should have been the first or second story. The tale was highly imaginative and interesting, and it convinced me to read more of his work.
No Truce with Kings-War story, which I don't like in any format, sci-fi or nonfiction. Especially these days, when my brother is going to be in Afghanistan soon and has already been forever changed going through Iraq.
The end was sad, b/c war takes away family members; even those who return come back so different it still feels like you lost something.
Curious, how the Bush girls were in the military but never went to Iraq. That makes the former president a bigger jerk for sending people to Iraq and making sure his daughters never had to go.
Fighting the war on terror must not have been as important as he said.
Progress-The hardest story I've ever read in terms of being able to understand what was happening, which I couldn't. Then I came to the end and found out was going on in the beginning, but I couldn't follow the plot w/out having read the end first. Which doesn't make ANY sense, and I felt confused or just plain lost until the very end where you get an explanation for all the sudden violent scenes in the beginning and middle.
I really disliked the story.
The Un-Man-Really good story, but I don't know why he had to use the word meretricious when he could have used a different, more heard-of word, to describe it.
Sometimes I think writers are as bad as doctors and other health care professionals who talk in big words around patients to feel like they're lodge members or something.
The Big Rain-Terrible unless you like war stories. Since my brother went to Iraq twice I really DON'T care for war stories. But I care even less for the fact that, in his stories, a plot will be going one way, then suddenly veers off the track and turns 180 degrees from what was happening 2 seconds before it jumped the track headed south and turned northward.
He's done that w/ 2 stories now. Both about war, both of which I didn't like.
After Doomsday-The guy is just way too obsessed w/ war stories if you ask me. If it keeps up this pattern, I'm not going to be able to read anything else he writes.
I'm not into war stories, and I wonder how many people are both into war stories and related to a Veteran of a foreign war?
My guess is not many.
Epilogue-This story was so good it should have been the first or second story. The tale was highly imaginative and interesting, and it convinced me to read more of his work.
July 15, 2010
Pretty amazing collection, starting with the first story, which held me entranced. Some of them were a little repetitive--that last long story was just one too many on a similar theme--but as a whole, a valuable read. What I liked most about it, beyond some truly unique SFnal ideas, was that in a really sneaky way, while writing about the most mundane things, the prose suddenly shows itself to be stunning.
September 11, 2019
I absolutely loved the short story 'To Outlive Eternity "!!!! it was amazing and extremely interesting. it was written very well and I recommend this book to any who would like to think while reading!!
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