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The Boat of a Million Years

64.3% complete
1989
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2600
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Copyright © 1989 by Poul Anderson
To
G. C. and Carmen Edmondson
Salud, amor, dinero y tiempo para gustarlos.
"To sail beyond the world -"
May contain spoilers
"We'll make it be," he promised.
No comments on file
Synopsis not on file
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Added: 14-Nov-2019
Last Updated: 13-Mar-2020

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 15-Jan-1989
Tor Books
Paperback
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Date Issued:
15-Jan-1989
Format:
Paperback
Pages*:
466
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Internal ID:
1828
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-812-50270-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-812-50270-1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
About
POUL ANDERSON


"He is SF's most prolific writer of any consistent quality, he has been awarded Hugos for five stories and novelettes... he has won two Nebulas.  He is still in the prime of an extraordinarily fruitful career... a figure in the pantheon of American SF writers (like Isaac Asimov from the Golden Age or Frank Herbert from a decade later) of about the same age and perhaps no greater skill."
- The Science Fiction Encyclopedia

"The great canvas of interstellar space comes alive under his hand as it does under no other." - Gordon R. Dickson

About
THE BOAT OF A
MILLION YEARS


"Here at long last, the big Anderson book we've all been waiting for!  An unforgettable novel, with a cast as big as mankind and an adventure that charts the course of time.  Read it, enjoy it, savor it... this may well be the best book of the year, hell, the decade." - Jerry Pournelle

"A searing ride through our human past and future...  Makes us feel the passions of these few immortals, and wonder at where destiny eventually takes them." - David Brin

"The Boat of a Million Years - sometime Narrenschiff, ever the Flying Dutchman - offers first-class accomodations on a reading voyage down the ages, with stops at many a fascinating port.  For a long time I felt Poul was too long between books.  It is good to see why and to know, simultaneously, that it was worth the wait." - Roger Zelazny
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Author(s)

Poul Anderson  
Birth: 25 Nov 1926 Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: 31 Jul 2001 Orinda, California, USA

Notes:
From "About Poul Anderson" in the 1985 edition of Brain Wave:

What would happen if...

Those are magic words, and the writer who chooses to follow out their intention finds himself suddenly released, in a world unbounded by here and now and open to the farthest reaches of logic and imagination.  What would happen if philosophers were kings, if men could live forever, if the human race could suddenly surmount the limits of its present intelligence?

Such a train of thought has been the starting point for some of the most fascinating works of imaginative fiction, and it is to this class of informed speculation that BRAIN WAVE belongs.  Poul Anderson (the pronunciation lies midway between "pole" and "powl") is, like many of the best writers in science fiction, a graduate physicist.  (The physical sciences seem to be producing as many authors as medicine did a generation ago.)  As such, he brings to fiction that sense of the possible that the widening horizon of science often bestows.

Awards

1990Libertarian Futurist SocietyPrometheus Award Nominee
1990Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of AmericaNebula Award - Best Novel Nominee
1990World Science Fiction SocietyHugo Award - Best Novel Nominee
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