Farness is on furlough in New York in 1932.
Everard calls him to confer in New York in 1980.
They listen to a medieval koto performance by an unchronicled player.
Afterwards, they will see Lola Montez in Paris in 1843.
Farness comments:
"Time travel has its rewards as well as its pains." (p. 385)
Perhaps Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series is the only sf series about a community of time travellers experiencing those pains and rewards?
Having recently immersed myself in Anderson's Technic History and Time Patrol series, I now wish that both of these series had been longer even at the expense of some later works. Did Harvest Of Stars deserve to become a Tetralogy? I do not think that it bears as much study or scrutiny as those two earlier series.
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Agreed, on the whole -- but at some point a writer often just doesn't want to do more of a particular series.
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