Book description
Set in the misty time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise
of our own age, The King of Ys chronicles the coming of Gratillonius,
the Roman prefect who became a king. Gallicenae continues that story to
tell of Gratillonius' nine queens and penetrate to the very heart of the
legend of the King of Ys . . . 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. Karen
Kruse Anderson is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson, and
mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear. She wrote the first published science
fiction haiku (or scifaiku), "Six Haiku" in The Magazine of
Fantasy & Science Fiction, in July 1962, and is one of the founders
of the Society for Creative Anachronism. She has been invested as a
member of the Baker Street Irregulars, and is active both in Sherlockian
groups and in the Los Angeles Science-Fantasy Society.
