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"Poul Anderson, always a master of science f iction, here delivers THE BEST OF HIS MANY NOWELS. A TRUE MASTERPIECE, HARWEST OF STARS is AN IMPORTANT WORK NOT JUST OF SCIENCE FICTION BUT OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURĘ. Visionary and beautifully written, elegiac and transcendent, HARWEST OF STARS is THE BRICHT-EST STAR IN POUL ANDERSONA CONSTELLATION "

-Keith Ferrell, editor, Omni magazine

''A VIVID, FAST-PACEO NOWEL ON A ĆRAND SCALĘ. Anderson's mix of action, colorful characters and fascinating concept makes HARWEST OF STARS A GREAT READ"

-Larry Bond, author of Vortex and Red Phoenix

"HARWEST OF STARS is AN EXTRAORDINARILY POWERFUL novel because of the ex-

tent to which Poul Anderson immerses you in the futurę. He makes you-along with his characters-experience his brave new world in astonishing depth. He hasn't merely projected a group of characters into a futurę setting. His characters become part of them. It is as if his men and women take on a life of their own. They have their own dreams and lifestyles,.entertainments and agendas, goals and pasts, quite apart from the author's. Poul brings them vividly to life.

"Perhaps what really impressed me was the book's wealth of detail. Poul puts us into a whole new world. It is, in that respect, a novel written morę in the manner of Fielding and Melville than that of traditional SF. IN SOME WAYS IT'S AS IF HE'S REALLY WRITTEN MOBY DICK-a book which explores all the myriad ramif ications of a whale hunt-though l honestly believe Poul's novel to be morę tightly integrated than Melville's. SF novels often engage in these sorts of explorations but to a morę limited degree. Typically, they tracę one trend into the futurę and explore that trend's limits. Poul has traced a thousand trends, pulled them tightly together and created A MASTERPIECE."    -Larry Niven, author of Ringworld

“Poul Anderson has long been recognized as the master of the science f iction short Story. WlttT THE-BOAT OF A MILUON YEARS and now HARWEST OF STARS, he has proven himself to be a master of the science f iction novel as well. THEY DON'T CET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS: action, suspensę, mystery, adventure-and CHARACTERS YOU'LL PEMFMBFP LIKg QLD FRIENDS FOR A LONG TIME TO COME. Anderson has clearly moved liliil^5IJTu tlie ^:ront and center of the SF corps."

-Jerry Pournelle, co-author of Football and The Cripping Hand

”1 ENJOYED HARWEST OF STARS A LOT. It manages to accomplish the near-impos-sible: in an original and interesting way, to reconcile the vintage Andersonian futurę of excitmg human adventure in space with the radically different prospect of a futurę dominated by exponentially powerful artificial minds."

-Hans Moravec, Senior Research Assistant, Robotics institute, Carnegie Mellon University