The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson
The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson
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The Boat of a Million Years

Author: Poul Anderson

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 20 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Others have written science fiction on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson made it his own. Early in human history, certain individuals were born who live onunaging, undyingthrough the centuries and millennia. This story follows them over two thousand years, up to our time and beyondto the promise of utopia, and to the challenge of the stars. A milestone in modern science fiction and a New York Times Notable Book when first published in 1989, this is one of a great writers finest works.

About Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his hard science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets," he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or "Wanderer," Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

Oh my great googamunga, what the hell have I been reading all these years, slogging through shit only to finally come upon THIS MAGNUM OPUS OF SF? I'm frankly about as embarrassed as I can possibly be. I am STUNNED by how smoothly this enormous work slid down my gullet, amazing me with so much deligh......more

Goodreads review by Juho

There's two books here - and though neither of the books is any bad, in a vacuum, they're stitched together fairly poorly and have very little to do with one another, and ultimately both end up sadly incomplete. One without an ending, the other with too much beginning. In the first half, we follow a......more

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