Book description
Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live on,
unaging, undying, through the centuries and millennia. We follow them
through over 2000 years, up to our time and beyond - to the promise of
utopia and the challenge of the stars. A milestone in modern science
fiction and a New York Times Notable Book on its first publication in
1989, this is one of a great writer's finest works. 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.
