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Au XXIVe siècle, l'humanité navigue dans tous les systèmes et s'est implantée sur nombre de planètes. La Ligue polesotechnique envoie ses princes-marchands partout dans l'univers, dont le plus emblématique, roublard et truculent : Nicholas Van Rijn, fondateur de la Compagnie solaire des épices et liqueurs. Mais au sein de sa Compagnie, de jeunes recrues veulent gagner rapidement leurs galons, à l'instar du – très malin – David Falkayn. Confrontés à des problèmes réputés insolubles, à des environnements inconnus, à des extraterrestres plus ou moins hostiles, il faudra toute l'astuce et l'ingéniosité de nos princes-marchands pour se sortir de tous les mauvais pas... " Toujours écrites avec beaucoup de drôlerie, beaucoup de rebondissements et un final qui laisse pantois, ces aventures sont de la bonne SF traditionnelle, celle qui vous fait rêver en vous apportant une bouffée d'optimisme. À lire impérativement, de préférence en sirotant l'une de ces boissons affublées d'un petit parasol. " Jean-Luc Rivera – ActuSF
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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
