Gunnar Heim

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Gunnar Heim, an exemplary Poul Anderson hero:

was born to Norwegian parents on the extrasolar colony planet, Gea, Tau Ceti II;

grew up with alien Sindabans;

served in the Deepspace Fleet of the Earth Space Navy;

helped to put down the Hindu-German trouble on Lilith;

spent four months recuperating on New Europe;

 
fought the Aleriona off Achernar;

learned about the Aleriona two-phase control system from a captured ship;

left the Navy, became naturalized as an American and founded the Heimdal nuclear motor company;

lives in a suite on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco and employs domestic servants but drinks in the ghettos of the unemployable;

contributes to the Libertarian Party whose senior senator from California is majority leader of US representatives in the World Federation Parliament;

keeps contact with his Greenland Academy classmates, some now admirals;

is a widowed single parent;

heeds governmentally discounted evidence that human colonists are still alive on New Europe resisting Aleriona occupation;

decides to do something about it.

What a man!