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Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until his death in 2001. Anderson also wrote historical novels. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, and was nominated many more times for awards.
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culture · American science fiction writer (1926–2001) · writer · novelist · author · science fiction writer · also Poul Anderson, Poul William Anderson, Winston P. Sanders, A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Petronius Arbiter Kingsley
Born 25 November 1926 · Died 31 July 2001 · Q220883
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2026· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
Published “Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines” in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles — cited 9,732 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,755 times.
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2013· 1 entry
Published “The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project” in Nature Genetics — cited 8,614 times.
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2012· 2 entries
Published “Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 10,815 times.
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,271 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame for No Truce with Kings (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
The Guardian: Cracking Poul Anderson's Kraki
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2006· 1 entry
Published “Maximum entropy modeling of species geographic distributions” in Ecological Modelling — cited 14,907 times.
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2004· 1 entry
Published “Multimodel Inference” in Sociological Methods & Research — cited 10,292 times.
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2001· 5 entries
The Guardian: Obituary: Poul Anderson
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Died 2001-07-31.
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Awarded Prometheus Award - Special Award (2001).
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Awarded John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for Genesis (2001).
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“Now I killed a man they saidSo they said, so they saidOh I killed a man they saidYes they saidI killed a man they saidAnd I left him layin deadCause I bashed his bloody headBlast his eyes. (ang.)”
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2000).
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Published “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 8,947 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
“So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago - but the assumption is of one culture in the future, more or less like ours, with the same ideals and the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn”
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1996· 1 entry
As well as five Hall of Fame award and a Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001)
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame for The Star Fox (1995).
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1988· 1 entry
Published “Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.” in Psychological Bulletin — cited 33,161 times.
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Inkpot Award (1986).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame for Trader to the Stars (1985).
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1982· 3 entries
Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novella for The Saturn Game (1982).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Saturn Game (1982).
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Awarded Edward E. Smith Memorial Award (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Hunter's Moon (1979).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for A Midsummer Tempest (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded August Derleth Award for Hrolf Kraki's Saga (1974).
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novelette for Goat Song (1973).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for Goat Song (1973).
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1972· 3 entries
Awarded Nebula Award for Best Novelette for The Queen of Air and Darkness (1972).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Short Fiction for The Queen of Air and Darkness (1972).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novella for The Queen of Air and Darkness (1972).
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novelette for The Sharing of Flesh (1969).
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1966· 1 entry
And of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America (SAGA), also during the mid-1960s
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1965· 1 entry
Algis Budrys said that Anderson "has for some time been science fiction's best storyteller"
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1964· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for No Truce with Kings (1964).
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Short Story for The Longest Voyage (1961).
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1958· 1 entry
Published “Absence of Diffusion in Certain Random Lattices” in Physical Review — cited 11,236 times.
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1954· 1 entry
Published the fantasy novel The Broken Sword, one of his best-known works
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1953· 1 entry
And relocated with her to the San Francisco Bay area
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1926· 2 entries
In Bristol, Pennsylvania to Danish parents
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Born 1926-11-25.
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