Poul Anderson Appreciation

To those who read, good flight.  Judge, O blog readers! We had a few days in Wales, then, on returning to Lancaster, I was called upon to ad...

  Poul Anderson,  Three Hearts And Three Lions (London, 1977). "Holger consumed the meal with appetite and afterward thought wistfully ...

Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword and his Three Hearts And Three Lions have in common that: each implies a sequel that remains unwritten;...

Often in fantasy or sf, a character travels to another world or to another time and the story is somehow relayed to us as readers. Of course...

Was the conclusion of Poul Anderson's The Broken Sword predictable: that the sword, Tryfing , would kill the Elven-Fosterling, then the...

The Broken Sword , XXV. Pathetic fallacy highway: "...the summer was waning at last. But so was Trollheim." (p. 183) Valgard is dr...

The Broken Sword . Two more passages in Chapter XXIV: "...the memory of Skafloc was becoming a summer that was past, recalled in a new ...

See: Weather And Seasons Winter The Structure Of Star Of The Sea Poul Anderson's works set in historical or prehistorical periods often ...

The Broken Sword , XXIV. Freda reflects - and this can also be our evening reflection -: "Dreary was a church after the woodlands and h...

The Broken Sword , XXIII. John Carter, the self-proclaimed best swordsman of two worlds, could defeat any number of sword-wielding antagonis...