DYING UNDER A PINK SUN

THE SIGNAL

INNOCENT AT LARGE by POUL ANDERSON & KAREN ANDERSON

INNOCENT AT LARGE

A hayseed Martian among big-planet slickers ... of course
he would get into trouble. But that was nothing compared
to the trouble he would be in if he did not get into trouble!

 

First published Galaxy Science Fiction July 1958. This story is one of the earlier works of Poul Anderson collaborating with Karen Anderson. This story does not have much acclamation yet it has been enjoyed by readers since from the first publication.

Born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction and fantasy writer who began to write Science Fiction and Fantasy during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories.

John W. Campbell published Anderson's first stories in Astounding Science Fiction while he was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota. "Tomorrow's Children" by Anderson and F. N. Waldrop in March 1947 and a sequel, "Chain of Logic" by Anderson alone, in July. He earned his graduation in Physics with honors but made no serious attempt to work as a physicist; instead he became a free-lance writer after his graduation in 1948—and placed his third story in the December Astounding.

Anderson is best known for his Science Fiction adventure stories. In most of his stories, larger-than-life characters succeed gleefully or fail heroically. His characters were nonetheless thoughtful, often contemplative, and well developed. His plot lines frequently involved the application of social and political issues in a hypothetical manner fitting to the science fiction genre. He also wrote some quieter works, generally of shorter length, which appeared more often during the latter part of his career.

His science fictions are thoroughly grounded in science (with the addition of unscientific but standard speculations such as faster-than-light travel). A specialty was imagining scientifically plausible non-Earthlike planets. Perhaps the best known was the planet of The Man Who Counts; Anderson adjusted its size and composition so that humans could live in the open air but flying intelligent aliens could evolve, and he explored consequences of these adjustments.

Pseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.

He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. He received the following awards:

• Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy (1978)
• Hugo Award (seven times)
• John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2000)
• Locus Award (41 nominations; one win, 1972)
• Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (one win (1975))
• Nebula Award (three times)
• Pegasus Award (best adaptation, with Anne Passovoy) (1998)
• Prometheus Award (four times, including Special Prometheus Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2001)
• SFWA Grand Master (1997)
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2000)

The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its 16th SFWA Grand Master in 1998 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 2000, its fifth class of two deceased and two living writers

Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.

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AMBITION - A Science Fiction Short Story by WILLIAM L. BADE

AMBITION by WILLIAM L. BADE 

To the men of the future, the scientific
goals of today were as incomprehensible
as the ancient quest for the Holy Grail!

First appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, October 1951 edition. This thought-provoking short story from the golden age of science fiction features a rocket scientist from mid-20th-century America who finds himself thrust hundreds of years into the future—where he discovers that his life's work of achieving the goal of interplanetary travel has long since been abandoned.

William Lemoine Bade was an American Science Fiction Writer, born on 5 April 1928 in Lincoln, Nebraska. By profession he was an US academic, physicist and he worked for NASA. He began publishing Hard SF stories with "Advent" for Astounding in January 1948, beginning a short series ending with "The Eight Hundredth Hundred-Day" (Fall 1953 Fantastic Worlds). He wrote three other stories also. He died on 12 February 2005 in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

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