Poul Anderson's mutant time travelers have to travel alone. They cannot carry anyone else with them.
The Doctor's TARDIS (see image), bigger inside than out, can carry an army and the Doctor always travels with an untrained and unqualified companion.
Two can sit on a Time Patrol timecycle and sometimes larger models or box-like time shuttles are used. When Everard and Van Sarawak escape from a divergent timeline, the Venusian's arm remains around Deirdre's waist.
When Malcolm Lockridge escapes into a time corridor, he must take Auri with him. When the anakro space-time vehicle malfunctions, it pulls people from different periods with it through time.
Thus an adventure begins - or continues - when accident or circumstance transports a character from his here and now to an exotic there and then.
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore..."
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Whoa! One or two small corrections. In THERE WILL BE TIME a pair of mutant time travelers was able to carry along their infant child. Also, if two or more of these mutants are trained to synchronize when they use their time traveling power and are holding hands, they can travel together and arrive at a desired time.
Sean
Sean,
Can you give me the reference for the transportation of the child?
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Certainly, here it is, in Chapter 7 of THERE WILL BE TIME, Caleb Wallis speaking: "...a young peasant couple in Austria. We were lucky with those last, by the way. They'd found each other--maybe the only pair of travelers who were ever born neighbors--and had their first child, and wouldn't have left it if the baby wasn't small enough to carry."
Sean
Sean,
Thanks.
Paul.
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