It’s interesting to speculate how much of himself Anderson put into Holger Carlsen, the hero of Three Hearts and Three Lions –they are both Danish-Americans, trained in science and engineering, and apparently wholly rational and pragmatic. It has remained sporadically in print ever since, largely overshadowed by Anderson’s more famous science fiction works.Īlthough Anderson was best known during the first half of his writing career as a science fiction author, Three Hearts and Three Lions and his following fantasy work The Broken Sword (1954) had a strong impact on knowledgeable fans and fellow writers, perhaps most clearly with Michael Moorcock’s adoption and reinterpretation of the cosmic struggle between Law and Chaos in the Elric of Melniboné stories, which began appearing in 1961. Poul Anderson ’s Three Hearts and Three Lions was originally serialized in 1953 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction– eight years later a revised and expanded version of the tale would see print in hardcover from Doubleday, followed by an Avon paperback in 1962.
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