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When I had seen either a Back To The Future or a Star Trek film about time travel, I wanted to read something good about time travel so I reread "Ivory..." Poul Anderson knows the tricks of the trade. The mariner, Gisgo, tells Eborix/Everard and Pum about "'...an eldritch journey...'" (p. 314) One of the crew, Adiyaton, looked like Pum. Maybe it was his grandfather? No, that was Pum, as an alert reader might anticipate. Things in heaven like winged bulls with men on them swooped down. Timecycles. Flame raged between these dragons or flying chariots. Time Patrolmen fighting Exaltationists. Everard has just heard an account of the climax of the story when he and his squadron will defeat their enemies. After that, all the loose ends - Sarai, Bronwen and Pum - will be tied together and the reader will turn to "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," a completely different kind of time travel narrative.
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