American - Writer | November 25, 1926 - July 31, 2001
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson
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We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?
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In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.
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What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
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