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Poul Anderson war ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Autor im so genannten „goldenen Zeitalter“ der Science Fiction. Einige seiner Kurzgeschichten wurden zuerst unter den Pseudonymen A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge und Winston P. Sanders veröffentlicht. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. November 1926 – 31. Juli 2001
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“Her rank was higher than his, so high that no one in her family worked productively.”

Poul Anderson buch The Enemy Stars

Quelle: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 1 (p. 4)

“Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself.”

Poul Anderson buch The Broken Sword

In the first edition of the book, this quote reads: Better a life like a falling star, brief and bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
Quelle: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 28 (p. 206)

“Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.”

Poul Anderson buch There Will Be Time

Quelle: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 175)

“A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.”

Poul Anderson buch There Will Be Time

Quelle: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 97)

“The universe held as many surprises as it did stars. No, more. That was its glory. But someday one of them was bound to kill you.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 32 (p. 517)

“What’s the point of our living all these centuries if we haven’t grown up even a little?”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 27 (p. 482)

“Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.’ Yeah, trouble is, the three classes of people aren’t the same.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 336)

“Well, I’ll try to sketch it out for you, but I’ll have to repeat stuff I’ve told you before.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

“That’s all right. I’m a simon-pure layman. My basic thought habits were formed early in the Iron Age. Where it comes to science, I can use plenty of repetition.”
Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 331)

“It would annoy me less that we’re heading into a new puritanical era if the puritanism concerned itself about things that matter.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 330)

“No amount of money would stave off a nuclear warhead.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 328)

“Well, everybody got stupid now and then, especially in war.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 17 “Steel” (p. 306)

“I seek occasional relief in old books. They help me tell the transient from the enduring.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 16 “Niche” (p. 291)

“She seldom bothered taking revenge. Time did that for her, eventually.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 15 “Coming Together”, Section 2 (p. 281)

“I also know you cannot pick and choose. Change is a medicine bundle. You must refuse it altogether, or take the whole thing.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 12 “The Last Medicine” (p. 215)

“Your Eminence is as great a man as I have ever met.”

Poul Anderson buch The Boat of a Million Years

“Then God have mercy on humankind,” Richelieu replied.
Quelle: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 11 “The Kitten and the Cardinal” (p. 207)

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