Poul Anderson Quotes

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well… Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

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.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.