{"id":328,"date":"2026-01-03T20:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/three-hearts-three-lions-anderson-poul\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:33:32","slug":"three-hearts-three-lions-anderson-poul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/three-hearts-three-lions-anderson-poul\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Hearts & Three Lions – Anderson, Poul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Transported into a magical alternate world of dragons, witches, and fairy-folk, skeptical engineer Holger Carlsen finds himself at the center of a looming conflict in which he is inexplicably a key figure. Reissue.<\/p>\n

My first Anderson, June 17, 2000<\/p>\n

and not a bad place to start (I\u2019ve read plenty since). This book introduces the reader to the Nordic themes that pervade Anderson\u2019s fiction, even his ostensibly hard sf (yes, this book is actually set in the world of Charlemagne\u2019s paladins, but guess which of the paladins is the hero? You guessed it, Ogier the Dane; well, Anderson is of Danish origin, so what does one expect?). The story is fairly formulaic, but with some nice touches. Virginity doesn\u2019t get the short shrift it frequently does in modern fiction, and the hero converts to Catholicism after his return to our world (which gave me a mistaken view of Anderson\u2019s attitude to orthodox Christian doctrine and morals\u2014at least, many of his other writings give a somewhat different picture, though he is certainly rather intrigued by Christianity, especially Catholicism). Often praised are the pseudo-scientific explanations for why, say, it\u2019s dangerous to steal a giant\u2019s treasure, or exactly what might cause someone to become a werewolf. But on the whole this is a good rather than outstanding work of heroic fantasy\u2014a pleasant evening\u2019s read, but not something one wants to come back to over and over again or live by the light of. One of the serious flaws, IMHO, is that the ending lacks climax. It should also be noted that this is part of a series of books describing alternate worlds\u2014others include A Midsummer Night\u2019s Tempest<\/i> and Operation Chaos<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Book Preview Transported into a magical alternate world of dragons, witches, and fairy-folk, skeptical engineer Holger Carlsen finds himself at the center of a looming conflict in which he is inexplicably a key figure. Reissue. My first Anderson, June 17, 2000 and not a bad place to start (I\u2019ve read plenty since). This book introduces … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poul-anderson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}