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Website/TheOtherWiki lists [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson recurring themes in his work]] as (among others) "[[BigDamnHeroes larger-than-life characters]] who succeed gleefully or fail heroically," [[RockBeatsLaser the folly of underestimating "primitive" cultures]], and "[[GreyAndGrayMorality tragic conflict... with no villains at all]]." His famous essay, [[http://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/on-thud-and-blunder/ "On Thud and Blunder,"]] where he takes potshots at those who fail to use basic research, or at least common sense when writing HeroicFantasy.
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Website/TheOtherWiki lists [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson recurring themes in his work]] as (among others) "[[BigDamnHeroes larger-than-life characters]] who succeed gleefully or fail heroically," [[RockBeatsLaser the folly of underestimating "primitive" cultures]], and "[[GreyAndGrayMorality tragic conflict... with no villains at all]]." His famous essay, [[http://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/on-thud-and-blunder/ "On Thud and Blunder,"]] where he takes potshots at those who fail to use basic research, or at least common sense when writing HeroicFantasy, is the TropeNamer for ThudAndBlunder, though the term has acquired a meaning he never intended.
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Website/TheOtherWiki lists [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul_Anderson recurring themes in his work]] as (among others) "[[BigDamnHeroes larger-than-life characters]] who succeed gleefully or fail heroically," [[RockBeatsLaser the folly of underestimating "primitive" cultures]], and "[[GreyAndGrayMorality tragic conflict... with no villains at all]]." His famous essay, [[http://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/on-thud-and-blunder/ "On Thud and Blunder,"]] where he takes potshots at those who fail to use basic research, or at least common sense when writing HeroicFantasy, is the TropeNamer for ThudAndBlunder, though the term has acquired a meaning he never intended.
HeroicFantasy.
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Crosswicking
* SettleForSibling: Or for your dead husband's clone-brother.
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* SettleForSibling: Or for your dead husband's clone-brother.
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* SettleForSibling: Or SubmersibleSpaceship: One of the short stories in ''Cold Victory'' is about a spaceship that suffers an attempted hijacking, and in the process, loses a large amount of its fuel. Lacking enough power to return to Earth, the crew instead direct the ship into a decaying orbit around Jupiter, and eventually come to rest within its atmosphere, at a depth where the gases are so dense the ship can float "like a bubble in a densitometer." They have to deal with weighing several times as much as usual, but the ship is otherwise unharmed and functional while waiting for your dead husband's clone-brother.rescue.
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* TheBeautifulElite: The aliens in ''Sargasso of Lost Starships''.
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* BittersweetEnding: Lots.
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* TheCaptain: Mostly in space.
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* CulturedBadass: In "A Little Knowledge".
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* DearJohnLetter: In the BackStory of "The Corkscrew Of Space".
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* DividedStatesOfAmerica: In "No Truce With Kings".
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* GreyAndGrayMorality
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* HumanoidAliens
* HumanityIsAdvanced
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* MasterOfYourDomain: A lot of his books, e.g. ''Boat of A Million Years''.
* MatterOfLifeAndDeath: In "Marque and Reprisal".
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: ''The Devil's Game''.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In ''The Man Who Counts''.
* TheMenFirst: In "Arsenal Port".
* MatterOfLifeAndDeath: In "Marque and Reprisal".
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: ''The Devil's Game''.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In ''The Man Who Counts''.
* TheMenFirst: In "Arsenal Port".
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%% Zero-context entry, fix before uncommenting * MatterOfLifeAndDeath: In "Marque and Reprisal".
%% Zero-context entry, fix before uncommenting * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: ''The Devil's Game''.
%% Zero-context entry, fix before uncommenting * MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In ''The Man Who Counts''.
%% Zero-context entry, fix before uncommenting * TheMenFirst: In "Arsenal Port".
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* MindOverMatter: In ''Sargasso of Lost Starships''.
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* TheMutiny: In "Brake".
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* NonHumanSidekick: "To Build A World".
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* OldRetainer: Basil's slave in ''Sargasso of Lost Starships''
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* {{Privateer}}: ''The Star Fox''.
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* SherlockScan: In "Queen of Air and Darkness."
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* SpaceOpera
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* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: In "A Little Knowledge".
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* WouldNotHitAGirl: "To Build A World".
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Oh, and it really is ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Poul]]'' Anderson, not ''Paul'' Anderson. So let's not mistake him with Creator/PaulThomasAnderson or Creator/PaulWSAnderson.
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Oh, and it really is ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS ''[[ViewerNameConfusion Poul]]'' Anderson, not ''Paul'' Anderson. So let's not mistake him with Creator/PaulThomasAnderson or Creator/PaulWSAnderson.
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* ConstrainedWriting: [[https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language.artificial/ZL4e3fD7eW0/_7p8bKwLJWkJ "Uncleftish Beholding"]] is a short essay Anderson wrote that provides a basic overview of atomic physics, but does so as much as possible with only words of Germanic, rather than Latin, origin.
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* ConstrainedWriting: [[https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.language.artificial/ZL4e3fD7eW0/_7p8bKwLJWkJ [[https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/110/docs/uncleftish_beholding.html "Uncleftish Beholding"]] is a short essay Anderson wrote that provides a basic overview of atomic physics, but does so as much as possible with only words of Germanic, rather than Latin, origin. origin.
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Oh, and it really is "'''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Poul]]''' Anderson", not "''[[Creator/PaulWSAnderson Paul]]'' [[Creator/PaulThomasAnderson Anderson]]". So let's not mistake one for the others.
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Oh, and it really is "'''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Poul]]''' Anderson", ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Poul]]'' Anderson, not "''[[Creator/PaulWSAnderson Paul]]'' [[Creator/PaulThomasAnderson Anderson]]". ''Paul'' Anderson. So let's not mistake one for the others.
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* SpaceCossacks: In ''Literature/StarWays'', the Nomads roam the space in their starships and are divided into clans. The book's [[https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Poul-Anderson-ebook/dp/B001AV1RPA synopsis]] even states that they are kind of a merge between Vikings and Gypsies.
