See:
Havig Versus Wallis and Havig Versus Wallis II, both here. (Scroll down.)
We, editorially speaking, find that we have already summarized this part of the novel in more detail than we would have thought possible! No need to do it again.
In Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series, the Patrol fights Neldorians, Exaltationists, other time criminals and even temporal chaos itself throughout history.
In Anderson's The Corridors Of Time, Wardens and Rangers wage war throughout history, hoping to influence their common unknown future.
In There Will Be Time, Havig's group must outmaneuver Wallis' Eyrie while remaining within the bounds of what is already known about future, and also some past, events. Enough remains unknown to allow them sufficient freedom of action.
3 comments:
Well, not knowing what's going to happen doesn't make it any less -fixed-, according to the worldbuilding in that book. It just means you don't know what's fixed and unalterable.
Yes but it is pointless to try to kill your enemy at a time when you know that he was not killed whereas there is some point in trying to kill him at a time when you do not know whether he was killed.
It's waste effort. Find out what happens -- when you kill him, for example -- and then go and do that.
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