The next work, The Year Of The Ransom, presents several alternating viewpoints. Everard's is one. However, the juvenile heroine, Wanda Tamberly, takes center stage, narrating some of her sections, opening and closing the story and even describing "Mr Everard..." -Time Patrol (New York, 2006), p. 682.
After what could be called the Exaltationist trilogy of The Year Of The Ransom, "Ivory, And Apes, And Peacocks" and "Women And Horses And Power And War," we get a Wanda story followed by a joint Manse-Wanda story, the latter also featuring the return of Keith Denison from the second Guardians story. Thus, a solid combination of older and newer characters.
After that, there is only the short coda, "Death And The Knight," in which Manse and Wanda have begun their relationship. Inserted before the first Exaltationist story is "Star Of The Sea," in which Everard works alongside Patrol Specialist Janne Floris while retaining the seniority that he has gained by this stage of the series. (The story is inserted here so that Manse can begin and end his relationship with Janne before meeting Wanda.)
On pp. 459-463 of the omnibus collection, Time Patrol, Everard is with Carl and Laurie Farness at the Patrol report in Hawaii in 43 AD. This passage is science fiction because they have time traveled to Hawaii. Everard does not reappear until p. 477.
On pp. 463-465, Ermanaric in 374 contemplates his doom and kills himself: historical fiction.
On pp. 467-469, two deities are betrothed: fantasy or mythological writing, imaginatively recreating an earlier stage of Norse mythology.
On pp. 469-477, Germans besiege a Roman camp: historical fiction.
On p. 477, "In the closing decades of the twentieth century...," Everard arrives in Amsterdam by timecycle: science fiction.
So we are back to Everard but see how much we have had in between.
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