“I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on… It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.”

—  Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction (1997)

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American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926–2001

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