Description From the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author: "A panoramic story of what happens to a world gone super intelligent" (Astounding Science Fiction).
In 1952 he met Karen Kruse; they mar.
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.
Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he has received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or "Wanderer," Awards.
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.
Admired for his "hard" science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets," he also excelled in humor.
After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. .
About the author Poul Anderson (1926-2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. .
For all of them, the world will never be the same .
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.
Animals that were seen as livestock and pets can now communicate clearly with their owners and one another.
A young boy on holiday manages to discern the foundations of calculus before breakfast.
A mentally impaired farm worker finds himself capable of more delicate and intelligent thoughts than he ever dreamed.
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. 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. . .
With "wonderfully logical detail .
Description From the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author: "A panoramic story of what happens to a world gone super intelligent" (Astounding Science Fiction)
