The Van Rijn Method, Poul Anderson
The Van Rijn Method, Poul Anderson
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The Van Rijn Method

Author: Poul Anderson

Narrator: BJ Harrison

Unabridged: 21 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/24/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

The Buck Starts Here!

Think there's an unbridgeable gulf between human and alien thought? Not so! There's a common tongue, all right—and Nicholas Van Rijn speaks it fluently: trade. For behind the buffoonish blarney and bawdy bonhomie of the Falstaffian Van Rijn is a man who gets things done. A born wheeler-dealer who usually leaves both sides better off in the bargain. (While pocketing a hefty cut of the profits himself, of course!)

With "The Man Who Counts" and a passel of other tales included, this is the first of three volumes set to contain the complete cycle of Polesotechnic League books and stories by transcendently gifted science fiction master (how does seven Hugos and three Nebula Awards strike you?) Poul Anderson—and starring Nicholas Van Rijn, his most famous character of all!

Contains mature themes.

About Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Admired for his hard science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and "fantasy with rivets," he also excelled in humor. He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or "Wanderer," Awards. A founder of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, he became a Grand Master, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew

The publishing house Baen has assembled all of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization stories (shorts, novellas, and novels) into a seven volume set, with the stories occurring chronologically, as opposed to being in publication order. The first volume starts in the relatively near future, then hops f......more

Goodreads review by Rob

...The choice to present these stories in chronological rather than publication order means the reader frequently moves between various stages in Anderson’s development as a writer. Just the setting does not quite provide enough continuity to make this collection a coherent whole in my opinion. Stil......more