The Shield of Time (53 page)
Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953)
The Broken Sword (1954, revised in 1971)
Hrolf Kraki’s Saga (1973)
A Midsummer Tempest (1974)
The Merman’s Children (1979)
The Devil’s Game (1980)
War of the Gods (1997)
Mother of Kings (2001)
TO FELICE AND BLAKE
Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson (1926 – 2001) was born in Pennsylvania to Scandinavian parents. His family lived for a time in Denmark but moved back to the United States after the outbreak of the Second World War. They settled in Minnesota, where Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota.
Anderson began writing while still an undergraduate and published his first story in 1947. He was active throughout the second half of the twentieth century, producing such classic works as the Dominic Flandry books and
The High Crusade
, and winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards. He has served as President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. In 1998 he was named an SFWA Grand Master. He collaborated regularly with wife, Karen, and their daughter is married to noted SF writer Greg Bear. Poul Anderson died in July 2001.
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