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1926–2001 United States
Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was a prominent American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.
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“Evolution is cut-and-try. If I may anthropomorphize,” he added. “Often it’s hard not to.”
“He says giants built it in the morning of the world,” Hanno told Pytheas.
There was a huge sadness in it—the little men of today, gnawing apart the mighty works they no longer understood. In a few hundred years, or a few thousand, what did it matter? Nothing would be left, nothing but rubble and waving grass and the wild dogs howling where men had once lived.
Vault of the Ages (1952)
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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