Thus, in Poul Anderson's The Dancer From Atlantis, Duncan Reid is pulled back to the era of Atlantis and is returned to the twentieth century only at the end.
In James Blish's A Midsummer Century, John Martels is time projected to about 25,000 AD and eventually opts to remain in that era.
Originally, Doctor Who would spend say six episodes in one past period on Earth, then six in an extraterrestrial or future setting, then back to the Terrestrial past and so on but there was never any time travelling back or forth within any six-episode segment.
I once spoke to someone who thought that that was the only kind of time travel story. The existence of a Time Patrol was a revelation to him.
The other kind of time travel story:
in Anderson's "Flight to Forever," Martin Saunders travels only into the future but keeps on going through many future periods;
Anderson's Time Patrollers, mutant time travellers and Wardens and Rangers travel back and forth in time many times during a single narrative.
Let us return to the Wardens and Rangers (The Corridors Of Time) next.
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