"I am not being affected in referring to the author as someone else. He was. A generation lies between us. ... This young, in many ways naive lad who bore my name could, all unwittingly, give readers a wrong impression of my work and me. At the same time, I don't feel free to tamper with what he has done. If nothing else, that would be unfair to those who have heard of his book and think they are buying it. ... I did allow myself a number of textual emendations. I like to think that the author would have been glad to take the advice of a man more experienced ... I did not rewrite end to end: as said, that appeared unethical. Hence the style is not mine." - Poul Anderson, foreword to The Broken Sword (Ballantine, 1971)
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"I am not being affected in referring to the author as someone else. He was. A generation lies between us. ... This young, in many ways naive lad who bore my name could, all unwittingly, give readers a wrong impression of my work and me. At the same time, I don't feel free to tamper with what he has done. If nothing else, that would be unfair to those who have heard of his book and think they are buying it. ... I did allow myself a number of textual emendations. I like to think that the author would have been glad to take the advice of a man more experienced ... I did not rewrite end to end: as said, that appeared unethical. Hence the style is not mine."
- Poul Anderson, foreword to The Broken Sword (Ballantine, 1971)