The Hypothesis Realized

Some science fiction works by different authors are alternative answers to a common question. In Stephen Fry's Making History, because Hitler's father is made infertile, another previously unknown figure leads the Nazi Party and makes things in some ways worse by avoiding war so that there is still a powerful Nazi state decades later. Unfortunately, Fry's time travel logic is nonexistent. Among other problems, he describes cinema special effects when causality is violated. I wrote to him at the time but no correspondence ensued.

Poul Anderson is better than most at time travel. A few authors are as good as he is on some aspects but not across the board.

Is anyone out there wondering: How long can Shackley keep posting about the Time Patrol? I am convinced that this series is inexhaustible and that a word by word analysis would continue to reveal previously unsuspected nuances. However, there is going to be a limit to how much I can say about it without taking a break.

My current agenda is:

finish reading Stieg Larsson's third Millennium novel;
start reading Greg Bear's Eon, which I have just acquired;
post about Eon, possibly on the Science Fiction blog but more probably on Poul Anderson Appreciation because of Eon's Andersonian connections.

The only Anderson works that I have yet to track down are the NESFA collections Vol 2-up. This will be done, although individual short stories will feel like an anti-climax after the intricacies of the Technic History and the Time Patrol.