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by Poul Anderson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Poul AndersonPublish date:2018-09-18Pages:214
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Media Science & FantasyISBN-13:9781504054553ISBN-10:1504054555UPC:9781504054553Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science Fiction, Action & AdventureBook Topic:Hard Science Fiction, Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC1PFSV6XK
From the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author: "A panoramic story of what happens to a world gone super intelligent" (Astounding Science Fiction).

With "wonderfully logical detail . . . exciting storytelling and moving characterization" (Anthony Boucher), science fiction master Poul Anderson explores what happens when the next stage of evolution is thrust upon humanity and animals. As Earth passes out of a magnetic field that has suppressed intelligence for eons, the mental capacity for all mammals increases exponentially, radically changing the structures of society.

A mentally impaired farm worker finds himself capable of more delicate and intelligent thoughts than he ever dreamed. A young boy on holiday manages to discern the foundations of calculus before breakfast. Animals that were seen as livestock and pets can now communicate clearly with their owners and one another. And an already brilliant physics researcher now uses his boundless intellect to bring humankind to the stars--even as his wife plunges into an existential crisis. For all of them, the world will never be the same . . .
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Media Science & FantasyISBN-13:9781504054553ISBN-10:1504054555UPC:9781504054553Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science Fiction, Action & AdventureBook Topic:Hard Science Fiction, Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticSize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC1PFSV6XK
Poul Anderson (1926-2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his "hard" science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets," he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he has received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or "Wanderer," Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

In 1952 he met Karen Kruse; they married in Berkeley, California, where their daughter, Astrid, was born, and they later lived in Orinda, California. Astrid and her husband, science fiction author Greg Bear, now live with their family outside Seattle.
Publisher: Open Road Media Science & Fantasy

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