A fictitious series often familiarizes its readers with imagined places: where the central character lives, works etc. In Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series:
Manse Everard's New York apartment appears in the first three stories and reappears several times later, from 1955 to 1990;
the Patrol Academy and Pleistocene Lodge are introduced in Time Patrol and both reappear at appropriate moments in The Shield Of Time;
the Academy is also the venue for "A worried conference..." (p. 220) in "Delenda Est";
Everard visits Dalhousie & Roberts Importers, the Patrol's London office 1890-1910, twice in the series;
we see another Patrol vacation venue although only once - a pre-Polynesian Hawaiian resort that exists for thousands of years but where the Farnesses are lucky to get a cottage for a month in 43 AD (pp. 459-463) and they see the evening star over Mauna Kea.
We understand that the Patrol is vast and would like to be shown more of its bases and facilities throughout history and prehistory.
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