Guardian Unlimited Books | News Obituary: Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson, who has died aged 74 from prostate cancer, published his first short story in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1947, and went on to produce more than 100 books, most of them novels. One of the last writers from science fiction's golden age, he was in the generation that followed authors like Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Frederik Pohl.