Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds Audiobook (Free)
- Various, Paul Michael Garcia, Angela Brazil, Jim Manchester, Susan Boyce, Stephen R. Thorne, Charlie Thurston, Charlotte Anne Dore, Mark Peckham, Barry Press, Rachel Dulude, Shaun Grindell, Rebecca Mitchell
- 16 h 37 min
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2014-12-30
Summary:
Poul Anderson was among the seminal numbers of twentieth-centuryscience fiction. Named a Grand Grasp by the Research Fiction Writers of Americain 1997, he created an enormous body of standalone novels and series fiction andwas similarly in the home in the areas of heroic fantasy and hard SF. He was ameticulous craftsman and a gifted storyteller, and the influence of his finestwork continues, undiminished, to this day.
Multiverse: ExploringPoul Anderson’s Worlds is a rousing, all-original anthology on the subject of Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds that standsboth as a significant accomplishment in its right and as a heartfelt tributeto a remarkable writer-and equally remarkable man. A nicely balanced blend offiction and reminiscence, Multiversecontains more than a dozen tales and novellas by some of today’s finest writers, alongwith moving reflections by, amongst others, Anderson’s wife, Karen; his daughter,Astrid Anderson Carry; and his son-in-law, novelist and coeditor Greg Keep. Bear’sintroduction, “MY PAL Poul,” is particularly illuminating and insightful.
The fictional contributions comprise a kaleidoscopic arrayof imaginative responses to Anderson’s many and varied fictional worlds. A fewof the shows include Nancy Kress’ “Outmoded Stuff” and Terry Brooks’ “TheFey of Cloudmoor,” tales inspired by the Hugo Award-winning “The Queen of Airand Darkness”; a set of truly wonderful Time Patrol stories, “A Slip in Time”by S. M. Stirling and “Xmas in Gondwanaland” by Robert Silverberg; RaymondE. Feist’s Dominic Flandry adventure, “A Candle”; and a set of very differenthomages towards the classic fantasy novel, ThreeHearts and Three Lions: “THE PERSON Who Came Late” by Harry Turtledove and “ThreeLilies and Three Leopards (And a Involvement Ribbon in Research)” by TadWilliams. These tales, as well as singular efforts by suchsignificant numbers as Larry Niven, Gregory Benford, and Eric Flint, accumulate toa memorable, highly personal anthology that lives up to the criteria arranged bythe late-and indisputably great-Poul Anderson.
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