Anderson deploys an extraordinarily broad range of premises from which to construct fictional narratives and social settings. I will now try to summarize several such premises as briefly as possible:
interstellar teleportation and a dead star;
a predictive science of society;
cyclical history and hyperspace as quantum jumps;
an "irrelevant" warp drive;
the Mach drive (and here);
gyrogravitics;
superlight, civilization clusters and global genocide;
an accelerating Bussard ramjet;
the antithanatic, the space jump and an intergalactic planetary system;
mutant immortals;
a legendary city veiled from history by its gods (with Karen Anderson);
magic as technology and parallel Earths;
instantaneous time travel in a variable reality;
time-consuming time travel in an invariable reality (time corridors or mutant time travelers);
human-AI interactions;
post-organic intelligences.
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Kaor, Paul!
And in his Trygve Yamamura stories and novels Poul Anderson also made contributions to the mystery genre. And perhaps something about THE GOLDEN SLAVE, ROGUE SWORD, and THE LAST VIKING could have been worked in? And I even wrote an article about how I found an unexpected connection ROGUE SWORD had with THE HIGH CRUSADE!
Sean
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