"Flight to Forever" And "Star of the Sea"

 

Two long time travel stories from opposite ends of Poul Anderson's career.

"Flight to Forever," published in Super Science Stories, 1950.

"Star of the Sea," published in Poul Anderson, The Time Patrol (New York, 1991).

"Flight to Forever" is a one-off story published in a pulp magazine whereas "Star of the Sea" is the last long addition to the Time Patrol series, published for the first time in the omnibus collection of the series.

"Flight..." culminates when a single time traveller completes a circuit of the cosmic cycle whereas "Star..." culminates in a prayer focusing imagery associated with a Norse goddess on the Mother of God.

"Flight..." presents future history about a Galactic Empire whereas "Star..." presents past history about the Roman Empire.

"Flight..." recounts a single long journey into the future whereas, in "Star...," two Time Patrol agents travel through several stages of the historical past in search of a crucial event that turns out to be their own arrival in the past.