Thursday 28 April 2022

Preferred Reading Orders II

Another Idea For The Time Patrol

After The Guardians Of Time and The Gods Of Time:

The War Against The Exaltationists (from Everard's pov)
(i) Everard's first encounter with Merau Varagan (extract from "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks")

(ii) "The Year of the Ransom"

(iii) "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" (minus the extract)

(iv) Parts One and Two of The Shield Of Time

Time Patrolwoman (Wanda Tamberly's Patrol career)
Parts Three, Four, Five and Six of The Shield Of Time
Appendix: "Death and the Knight"

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I don't think I could agree with this suggestion. Because it would mean removing material from stories like "Ivory and Apes and Peacocks" and THE SHIELD OF TIME that Anderson WANTED to be in those stories. Better for any COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON to include the first nine stories in one volume and THE SHIELD OF TIME plus "Death and the Knight" in another.

But editors could include comments similar to what you wrote here!

Ad astra! Sean