This is a pretty solid time travel adventure where four people find themselves stuck in Atlantis just as disaster is about to strike. There's Duncan Reid, an architect from modern-day (well, 1971, when the book came out) Seattle; a Russian guy from a thousand years prior; a Mongol from a thousand years before *that*; and Erissa, the dancer from the title, who's from a thousand years before the time machine breaks down and traps them all for good. You can really tell Poul Anderson did his homewor...

Poul Anderson was a very prolific fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until the 21st century. His awards include seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Although I used to read a lot of science fiction back in the 60s and 70s, for some reason I never read anything by Anderson. *The Atlantis Dancer* was published in 1971 and is a time travel novel that blended sci-fi and historical fiction. In it a man named Duncan Reid is flung from 1970 back to about 1400 B.C. in...

This was a reread, in ebook format, after reading Wendy Orr's *Dragonfly Song*. I enjoyed *The Atlantis Dancer* by Poul Anderson just as much this time as when I first read it in paperback many years ago. It's interesting how the 20th-century hero keeps thinking about Mary Renault's novel and how different it is from his own experience. The Minoan civilization is presented as laid-back and pleasant. The female lead is a strong, dignified woman—stronger in many ways than the hero, who realizes th...

Poul Anderson's The Atlantis Dancer, originally published in 1972, is another fantastic time-travel tale from the grand master of science fiction. This one reads like speculative historical fiction, set around the time of Atlantis's destruction. I've always been fascinated by the legends of that lost civilization, and Anderson crafts a believable explanation for what might have happened and how those legends evolved. The author demonstrates a scholarly understanding of ancient Athens and Crete...

Update: Appallingly bad. Seriously.So, my girlfriend comes up with this game while we're killing time in a used bookstore this weekend: We each pick a book, under 300 pages, that the other *has* to read, no exceptions. We spend a delightful 45 minutes scouring the bookstore, trying to find the most absurd thing to force the other to read. As we're paying at the register, we reveal what the other picked for us. When we get home, I add to the game a new rule: after we read the book the other picke...

I usually love Poul Anderson, but I just couldn't get into "The Atlantis Dancer". Something about the fact that only two of the four apparently main and important characters were properly fleshed out. And something about the priestess and her love and worship for the main character – who really didn't deserve it for any reason I could see.Anderson's writing is good, as usual, at the prose level, but it never really pulled together into a story I could enjoy. As far as science fiction book review...

I thought *The Atlantis Dancer* was alright, maybe 2 1/2 stars... Can you even spoil a novel written that long ago? Not sure, but if you're worried, don't keep reading. But it was very, VERY hard to read. Just around 170 pages, but it took me days to finish because I got a bit bored with it after a couple of pages. As far as sci-fi and fantasy books go, this one was a bit of a slog. Time travel is the underlying theme, but we only get fragments of time travel or future technology at the start ...

Entertaining time travel listening 🎧

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They are thrown together some where in the past and the fun begins.

I would recommend you give it a try. 2024

Awful, but not funny awful.

Four individuals from various eras are swept back in time to the age of Theseus, the Minotaur, and Atlantis. One of the things I liked about this story was that even though Reid, the most modern of the travelers, is fairly well-versed in both history and mythology, he still doubts his knowledge because he realizes that stories passed down thousands of years will change, and that recorded history may not be accurate in the first place.