Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds
Greg Bear and Gardner Dozois (editors)
Baen, Jun
2 2015, $15.00
ISBN: 9781476780597
This excellent anthology achieves its objective of paying homage
to one of the great twentieth century speculative fiction writers whose works
crossed into science fiction, fantasy and a combo. Well written earnest essays like those authored
by his widow Karen Anderson on how they met at an early 1950s convention and
his son-in-law Greg Bear on entering his life through marrying his daughter
humanize the late grandmaster. Thirteen
short stories provide readers with a return to Mr. Anderson’s myriad of mesmerizing
worlds. I enjoyed the Anderson realms
starting with a visit to Hugo Award winning “The Queen of Air and Darkness” (see
“Outmoded Things” by Nancy Kress and “The Fey of Cloudmoor” by Terry Brooks);
and accompanying the Time Patrol (see “A Slip in Time” by S. M. Stirling and
“Christmas in Gondwanaland” by Robert Silverberg). My personal favorite is Eric Flint’s
“Operation Xibalba” with its dissimilar tone from the other entries but like
the rest honors Mr. Anderson.
Harriet Klausner
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