A Third Threat Averted

In The Shield Of Time, PART SIX, "Amazement of the World," near the end of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series, a quantum threat to the Danellian timeline is averted when the Patrol eliminates - new time travel concept - a personal causal nexus. More significantly, the meaning of the Patrol is revealed. More than just a police force, this organization is the stabilizing element in a chaotic reality.

Climactic threat aversion is common to two of Anderson's future history series. See Vast Conflicts. We compared the inhabited galaxies of all three series in Comparing Galaxies and quoted references to "'Reality...'" in the Time Patrol series and the Psychotechnic History in Reality.

Both Nicholas van Rijn, from the Technic History, and Sherlock Holmes, who exists in the Danellian timeline, visit the Old Phoenix. It is all one multiverse.