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Short story by Poul Anderson
"The Longest Voyage"
is a
science fiction
short story by American writer
Poul Anderson
. It won the
Hugo Award for Best Short Story
in 1961.
Plot summary
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On a distant world the equivalent of the
Age of Exploration
is beginning. A party of daring explorers attempts to
circumnavigate
their world. In unknown waters they encounter an island civilization which claims to have a prophet who fell from the stars.
Reception
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"The Longest Voyage" won the 1961
Hugo Award for Best Short Story
.
[1]
Jean-Daniel Breque
has described "The Longest Voyage" as "a rousing adventure yarn", "solidly plotted, like a well-oiled mechanism", and "also a work of poetry".
[2]
Gardner Dozois
, upon selecting "The Longest Voyage" for inclusion in his 2000 anthology
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons
, said that it is "nearly unmatched" in science fiction for its "lyricism, compassion, subtlety, thoughtfulness, and above all the relish it takes in the bristling strangeness and wonder of the world".
[3]
Steven H. Silver
commented that what distinguishes "The Longest Voyage" from similar stories is that "Anderson provides strong motivation for both the explorers and the natives".
[4]
References
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- ^
1961 Hugo Awards
, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved January 6, 2017
- ^
News from France: A Man Who Counts
, by
Jean-Daniel Breque
; at
DanSimmons.com
; published 2008; retrieved May 30, 2015
- ^
Introduction to 'The Longest Voyage'
, in
Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons
, by
Gardner Dozois
, published 2000 by MacMillan
- ^
THE HUGO WINNERS, VOLUME I - Edited by Isaac Asimov
, reviewed by
Steven H. Silver
, on the
SF Site
; published no later than March 7, 2004 (earliest version on archive.org); retrieved May 30, 2015
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