Karen Kruse Anderson ( /ˈkruːzi/; born 1932) is the widow and sometime co-author of Poul Anderson, and mother-in-law of writer Greg Bear.
| Karen Kruse Anderson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1932 |
| Genres | Fantasy |
She is noted as the first person to use the term filk music in print. She also wrote the first published science fiction haiku (or scifaiku), "Six Haiku" (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1962). She also probably coined the term sophont to describe the general class of sapient beings.
As a student of philology she, in 1950, along with three friends, founded a Sherlock Holmes society, naming it the "Red Circle Society." She was, around this time, a friend of Hugh Everett III, whose theories about parallel universes Poul Anderson later became an enthusiast.
Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1982 novel Friday in part to Karen.
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“Whenever there’s a big war coming on, you should rope off a big field. And on the big day, you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals, put ‘em in the center dressed in their underpants and let them fight it out with clubs. The best country wins.”
—Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)