{"id":7073,"date":"2017-02-06T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2017-02-06T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:26:36","slug":"thinking-of-poul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/heroic-fiction\/thinking-of-poul","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Poul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Golden-Slave-Poul-Anderson-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Golden-Slave-Poul-Anderson-small-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The-Golden-Slave-Poul-Anderson-small\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Golden-Slave-Poul-Anderson-small-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/The-Golden-Slave-Poul-Anderson-small.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>I was exchanging notes with Scott Lynch about a\u00a0grand short story he&#8217;s got coming out soon, and he happened to mention how much he&#8217;s been enjoying some Poul Anderson. And that got me thinking just how much I sometimes like Anderson&#8217;s work. I&#8217;ve never listed him as a favorite author, but he&#8217;s written a number of books on my &#8220;keeper&#8221; list. There&#8217;s <em>The Broken Sword<\/em>, or course, a great take on some of the same mythic material that inspired Tolkien. Ryan Harvey did a great job discussing the text back in 2007 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/broken-in-two-poul-andersons-two-versions-of-the-broken-sword\/\">at <em>Black Gate<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More recently Gabe Dybing covered another of my favorite Anderson novels, <em>The Golden Slave<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.com\/2015\/03\/25\/two-great-books-by-poul-anderson-the-high-crusade-and-the-golden-slave\/\">at <em>Black Gate<\/em> <\/a>(along with <em>The High Crusade<\/em>, one I haven&#8217;t read).<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that works like these were hidden secrets. Sure, they&#8217;re not widely known anymore, but it seems like word is out about the good ones. And I&#8217;m pretty sure that they&#8217;re still fairly cheap to lay hands on if you go through a used book search site like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addall.com\/\">Addall<\/a>. It would be pretty swell if someone would collect Anderson&#8217;s best historicals in an omnibus. Not me, though. I have enough on my plate as it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was exchanging notes with Scott Lynch about a\u00a0grand short story he&#8217;s got coming out soon, and he happened to mention how much he&#8217;s been enjoying some Poul Anderson. And that got me thinking just how much I sometimes like Anderson&#8217;s work. I&#8217;ve never listed him as a favorite author, but he&#8217;s written a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroic-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7089,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions\/7089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.howardandrewjones.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}