Part of Series
XXIIIe siècle. Nicholas Van Rijn dirige la Compagnie solaire des épices et liqueurs au sein de la Ligue polesotechnique, l'alliance des négociants interstellaires. La Ligue transcende toutes les frontières politiques, et son pouvoir est à la mesure de l'étendue des routes commerciales : pour le moins considérable. Des princes-marchands parcourant l'univers, Van Rijn est probablement le plus flamboyant, truculent et ingénieux. Débonnaire et fin négociateur, il arpente les mondes, mettant sa verve et son panache au service de ses intérêts et de ceux de la Ligue. Voici ses aventures... " Poul Anderson s'amuse des codes du pulp tout en faisant œuvre de démiurge en créant ex nihilo un monde et ses créatures. " Laurent Lefeu – Bifrost " Un plaisir de lecture, une gourmandise de l'esprit. Un space-opera original et rafraîchissant qui n'a pas pris une ride. En un mot : excellent. " Lecture42
Author
Pseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge, Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley. Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career 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. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novel The Cat Who Walks Through Walls to Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3] Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously. Series: * Time Patrol * Psychotechnic League * Trygve Yamamura * Harvest of Stars * King of Ys * Last Viking * Hoka * Future history of the Polesotechnic League * Flandry
