Comprehensiveness

When I referred in the previous post to eighteen or so volumes set in past periods, I omitted The Boat Of A Million Years, about immortals surviving through many historical periods, then through the twentieth century and into the future, and also The Corridors of Time whose characters time travel to several past and future periods. Poul Anderson's comprehensiveness can overwhelm readers and can divert their attention from the details of particular works as it has just done. The Time Patrol series is mainly historical sf and There Will Be Time also features time travel to past and future periods, the latter including but also transcending the civilization described in his Maurai future history series. Next time back here, we should return to Hivernia in The King of Ys.