Monday 23 May 2022

Where The Time Patrol Goes

A short while ago, I summarized the contents of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series but missed some points so here we go again:

(i) Manse Everard's early Time Patrol career, beginning with his recruitment, training, first case and promotion to Unattached status and ending with the Carthaginian crisis (four episodes);

(ii) turning points in the lives of two other Patrol agents, Tom Namura and Carl Farness (two);

(iii) "Star of the Sea" as a turning point for Manse Everard because he begins and ends a relationship with Janne Floris and will shortly meet Wanda Tamberly (one);

(iv) the four-phase War against the Exaltationists, involving Wanda Tamberly in its second phase (three);

(v) Wanda Tamberly's Time Patrol career (two);

(vi) an interruption to Everard's and Tamberly's holiday in San Francisco (one).

Comments
The Patrol could have contacted Everard after, instead of during, the holiday.
Everard and Tamberly are married in SM Stirling's "A Slip in Time."
The series goes somewhere and could have gone further.

Addendum: See revision here.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And Wanda Tamberly's career in the Patrol might well have been cut short because of what she did in the "Beringia" section of THE SHIELD OF TIME. Everard had to argue and politic to prevent her from being dismissed from the Patrol.

Ad astra! Sean