![]() What he had in mind was not simply another collection, but a retrospective-besides stories, something about their origins, backgrounds, contexts, a historical overview of the science fiction and fantasy field throughout those decades.' Having been my editor for a long time, he felt that there ought to be something covering a still longer span, my writing through the half century since it first appeared. ![]() 'You hold this book thanks largely to Robert Gleason. I'll let Poul speak for himself with several quotes from his 'Introduction'. ![]() In many ways, this was his last will and testament regarding his career in SFF. He provides a lengthy 'Introduction' and short intros for every story in the collection. Despite it debuting almost a year after his passing, GFI was a project that had the whole-hearted participation of Poul. That career-retrospective of Anderson's work was published almost exactly nineteen years ago in June of 2002. Specifically, the capstone of his career and love-letter to his fans: Going For Infinity. ![]() No, today we're here to celebrate the career of one of the greatest writers to ever grace the SFF genres with his blazing talent and amazing intellect. That passing didn't receive the ballyhoo that Asimov's demise garnered a decade earlier or that Arthur C. Poul Anderson strode up the Bifrost Bridge to Valhalla twenty years ago today. ![]()
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