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| ポール・アンダースン氏略歴
ポール・ウィリアム・アンダースンは１９２６年アメリカ合衆国はペンシルヴァニアに生まれる。ミネソタ大学で物理学を専攻する。こうした正規の科学教育が「アンダースンこそＳＦの基本型を為す作家」と呼ばれる氏の作風に大きな影響を及ぼしたことは想像に難く無い。早くも大学在学中の１９４７年にアスタウンディング誌でデヴューする。以後、一般小説や歴史小説も発表するようになる。処女長編は１９５４年に発表された「脳波（Ｂｒａｉｎ Ｗａｖｅ）」である。科学者志望であったが、作家の道を選び半世紀近いキャリアの中で６０編以上の長編、２００を超える短編を発表し、ヒューゴー賞七回、ネヴュラ賞三回を受賞している。候補へのノミネートも含めれば常連と言っても過言では無い。 邦訳も多く「脳波」「処女惑星」「地球人よ、警戒せよ」「アーヴァタール」「大魔王作戦」などがある。また１９５５年に「Ｆ＆ＳＦ」誌に発表され氏の代表作の一つである「タイム・パトロール（Ｇｕａｒｄｉａｎｓ ｏｆ Ｔｉｍｅ）」の概念は世界中のＳＦ作家にいまだに大きな影響を与えている。さらに１９６７年に発表された「タウ・ゼロ（ＴＡＵＺＥＲＯ）」は発表当時から今日までハードＳＦの最高傑作の一つとして名前があげられることが多い。 |
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| ポール・アンダースンご夫妻の近況 Karen Kruse Anderson was born in Kentucky in 1932 and lived just outside Washington, D. C. at the beginning of the fifties. After working at a government mapping service for a year she spent a year at university, majoring in languages and theater. Her student friendships included Robert L. Forward, now a physicist and SF novelist, and Hugh Everett,who later originated the "many worlds" interpretation of quantum theory. Karen has been interested in other cultures since childhood. Her mother read her tales from world mythology and folklore, the "Arabian Nights", and Kipling's stories for children. One of the first stories she read herself was about "The Brothers Sea-Lucky and Mountain-Lucky".Such stories led to her interst in Japan, and she found the source of that story when she read translations of the _Nihongi_ and _Kojiki_. She was always interested in the past and the future, and read tales of King Richard the Lion-hearted with the same pleasure as the adventures of Buck Rogers in the newspaper comic pages. Anothr long-standing interest is detective fiction, especially the Sherlock Holmes stories. In 1949, she and a high-school classmate founded "The Red Circle" as a Holmes fan club. It still exists, and since they have never had another election, she is still its president. She and Poul have both belonged to the San Francisco Holmes club, "The Scowrers and Molly Maguires", since they came to California. She joined the Washington Science-Fiction Association in 1951 and published various fan magazines at different times. In 1952 she attended the Worldcon in Chicago, where she first met SF writing professionals. One of them was Poul Anderson, and they were married in 1953. They made their home first in Berkekey, California, on the east side of San Francisco Bay, and later in the nearby town of Orinda. Their daughter Astrid was born in 1954, and is now married to the SF writer Greg Bear. The Bears have a son and a daughter and live in the city of Lynnwood, north of Seattle, Washington. Her first professional sales were in the late 1950s, and included science-fiction verses and fantasy short stories. Her "Six Haiku" sequence with an SF theme were reprinted in a college poetry textbook. In addition, she has collaborated with Poul on numerous short stories and one novel. She also assists Poul with suggestions, research, and criticism. All of her earlier magazine work, and selected additional material, was published along with other work by Poul in their collection _The Unicorn Trade_ (Tor, 1984). Their novel _The King of Ys_ is a fantasy based on a French legend, set in the last years of the Western Roman Empire. It concerns historical persons as well as legendary figures and fictional characters. Her most recently published stories are "The Theban Fix" and "A Sphinx in the Mind", based on Greek mythology but set in the present day. She has written several amateur plays which she produced and acted in at SF conventions. Her fondness for the light operas of Gilbert and Sullivan has led her to create one parody based on _Star Trek_ and another based on a Sherlock Holmes story, and she appeared in both at SF conventions. In the 1960s, the Andersons' interest in history led them to help found a re-enactment group called the Society for Creative Anachronism.In the SCA, Karen learned to cook medieval dishes and made period clothing for her family. She also became "Laurel Queen of Arms", the group's leading expert on heraldry, until the duties of that office grew too time-consuming. She became interested in the sciences while in middle school by reading popular magazines such as _Scientific American_, and continues to read them to keep up with new discoveries and developments. She uses this source material in world-building projects at the Contact conferences, in which she has helped design planets and their ecosystems, intelligent races, psychological structures, social organization, and languages. Poul Anderson was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1926. His parents were of Danish origin and he was named for his mother's father, which accounts for the spelling of his first name. He was still an infant when his own father, and engineer, took a new job in Port Arthur, in southeast Texas. There the family lived for some ten years, and another son, John, was born. Their father died in an accident in 1937. Their mother took them back to Europe for a while, but war was too clearly coming and she returned to the United States, where she worked in a diplomatic officein Washington, D. C. This proved unsatisfactory, so she bought a small farm in Minnesota, where she had relatives. The next several years meant much hard labor and many difficulties, until at last she sold the farm and worked in a college library until her retirement. Poul attended the University of Minnesota, studying physics and mathematics in the hope of becoming a scientist. While in college, he sold his first few stories to _Astounding_ (now _Analog_), the leading science fiction magazine. He graduated with honors, but there was no money for further studies if John was to attend college too, and it was a time when jobs were hard to find. Living in Minneapolis, Poul supported himselv by writing while he looked for one. Gradually he realized thet nature had always intended him for a writer. By 1951 he was doing well enough that he and John could spend several months traveling abroad. In 1953 they did so again, this time inviting their mother to join them for part of the time -- on a motorcycle with a sidecar! Meanwhile Poul had met Karen Kruse at the worlod SF convention in Chicago, 1952. When he returned next year, they moved to the San Francisco Bay area in California and were married. Their daughter Astrid was born in 1954. Since 1960 their home has been in the suburban community of Orinda. Astrid has since married fellow writer Greg Bear and now has a son and daughter of her own. John became a geologist, and with his wife has had two daughters. Although most noted for science fiction and fantasy, Poul has also written mystery and historical fiction, children's books, poetry, and nonfiction. He served a year as president of the SFWA, and has also been active in the SCA and in the movement for a stronger space program. He has been active for many years in the Contact conferences, where he has used his knowledge of mathematics and physics to help keep imaginary workds and their inhabitants realistic. His best known science fiction works include _Brain Wave_, _The High Crusade_, _Tau Zero_, the Nicholas van Rijn/Dominic Flandry series and other stories in that milieu such as _The People of the Wind_; the humorous Hoka series (with Gordon R. Dickson); the Time Patrol series, and the tetralogy beginning with _Harvest of Stars_. His fantasies include _The Broken Sword_, _Three Hearts and Three Lions_, _Operation Chaos_, _Hrolf Kraki's Saga_, and _The Merman's Children_. Short story collections include _Strangers from Earth_, _Time and Stars_, Homeward and Beyond_, _The Queen of Air and Darkness_, and _All One Universe_. His most recent book is _The War of the Gods_, published in 1997, a fantasy based on Scandinavian myth and history. _Starfarer_, a "hard-SF" novel, will be published in 1998. _Operation Luna_, a sequel to the fantasy-tech novel _Operation Chaos_, is scheduled for 1999 and will have a cover painting by Kelly Freas. Honors include: Guest of honor at the World SF Convention, Detroit, 1959; Eurocon, Krakow, 1990; and many regional conventions. Seven "Hugo" Awards for best novelette of the year; three of those also won the Nebula Award. Mythopoeic Society "Aslan" award for fantasy novel _A Midsummer Tempest_. "Seiun ("Daikon")" Award given to the translation (published by Hayakawa in 1992) of _Tau Zero_. It was presented at the San Francisco Worldcon in 1993. Tolkien Memorial "Gandalf" award for lifetime achievement in fantasy. Special issue of _The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction_, with cover portrait by Kelly Freas, April 1971. In the field of Sherlock Holmes scholarship, he has won investiture in The Baker Street Irregulars and two Morley-Montgomery awards for best essay of the year. In the Society for Creative Anachronism he was given a knighthood for prowess in medieval combat -- but that was many years ago! He will receive the SFWA Grand Master Award at this year's annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Besides going to SF-related conventions, the Andersons enjoy scientific conferences such as the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Lunar and Planetary Observers' Conference held yearly at the Johnson Space Center. They have been present at Apollo launches, witnessed planetary flybys at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and attended the 1993 Bioastronomy Symposium at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The Andersons' trip to the Nebula Awards Meeting will include a tour of the high-energy physics facilities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Their schedule for 1998 includes Baycon in San Jose, California (May); the Asimov Seminar, a Contact-like meeting, at White Eagle Lodge, New York (July); and World Fantasy in Monterey, California (October). Their participation in Contact Japan 3 will be their first visit to Japan. |
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