Sunday 23 August 2020

The History Of The Publication Of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol Series, Part 2

See Part 1.

Time Patrolman (1983)
"Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"
"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth"

Annals Of The Time Patrol (1983)
The Guardians Of Time
Time Patrolman

The Year Of The Ransom (1988)

The Shield Of Time (1990)

The Time Patrol (1991)
Annals Of The Time Patrol
"Star Of The Sea"
The Year Of The Ransom

In Katherine Kurtz, Ed., Tales Of The Knights Templar (1995)
"Death and the Knight"

Time Patrol (2006)
The Time Patrol
"Death and the Knight"

The Year Of The Ransom is a prequel to "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks."
The Shield Of Time is a sequel to "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks."
"Star of the Sea" is a sequel to "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth."
"Death and the Knight" is a sequel to The Shield Of Time.

Thus, the reading order needs to be rearranged. 

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Using Jean-Daniel Breque's detailed bibliography of the works of Poul Anderson in a French collection of some of the Time Patrol stories, I've been trying to make sense of when and where some of the later stories were first published.

Yes, "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" plus "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" were first pub. in an independent volume called TIME PATROLMAN in 1982.

I think "The Year of the Ransom" was first pub. as a chapbook, because that is what I've seen online at other locations. Breque's bibliography says "Year" was first pub. in 1988 by Walker Millennium.

Ad astra! Sean