Book description
Earth had changed since the days when her proud space fleets spanned
the void of Space. Now her people were packed and packaged tight on
Earth, their freedoms exchanged for a promise of stability by a
multi-armed autocratic government. Then one small band of people led by
a fanatic saw there was one last chance for Man to make his place in the
Universe. But to take that chance they had to fight, not only the mighty
grip of the government, but the terrible, generation-long voyage fraught
with risk. And then, the new planet - strange, challenging, alien Poul
Anderson (1926-2001) was born in Pennsylvania of Scandinavian stock. He
started publishing science fiction in 1947 and became one the great
figures in the genre, serving as President of the Science Fiction
Writers of America, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, and was
named a SFWA Grand Master. He collaborated regularly with wife, Karen,
and their daughter is married to noted SF writer Greg Bear. Poul
Anderson died in July 2001.
