Sunday 13 May 2018

Three Genres In One Series

In Time Patrol:

we see Manse Everard with Carl and Laurie Farness in Hawaii in 43 A.D. (science fiction);

we see Ermanaric kill himself in Gothland in 374 (historical fiction);

we read an imaginatively reconstructed earlier stage of Northern European mythology (fantasy/mythological writing);

we see barbarians waging war against the Roman Empire (historical fiction);

we are pleased to meet Everard again in Amsterdam in the late twentieth century (science fiction).

For over a decade, the Time Patrol was four short stories collected in a single volume. Then Poul Anderson expanded it beyond anyone's expectations.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Somehow, for some reason, at some point, Poul Anderson "suddenly" seemed to have taken a deep interest in the Time Patrol series. Despite a decade or more having passed since he wrote the last of the four original Patrol stories. It does make me wonder why he was inspired to do so?

Sean