![]() In 2004, it was nominated for a Retro Hugo Award (novella category), but lost to James Blish’s “A Case of Conscience.” First serialzed in two 1953 issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Anderson returned to revise and expand it slightly in 1961, years before Tolkien became the fantasy sensation that dominates the genre today. Three Hearts and Three Lions falls into the latter category, a sword-and-sorcery tale featuring a modern man thrown back into a fantasy world which melds Carolingian Europe and Arthurian-style myth with more traditional fantasy elements. Anderson was a jack-of-all-trades who could write a brilliant space opera, a technically sound Hard science-fiction tale, or an authentic Dark Ages fantasy with the crack of sword against shield. ![]() So began a lengthy and productive career, including the gain of three Nebula and seven Hugo awards. He started off writing for pulps as varied as Astounding and Planet Stories as well as a long bibliography of novels that really showcase his talent: The Broken Sword, Brain Wave, Three Hearts and Three Lions, and War of Two Worlds being some of the best of Anderson’s earliest. I’ve never read anything by Poul Anderson that I haven’t liked Anderson is a consistently entertaining author even on his bad days. ![]()
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