Climaxes And Conclusions

When rereading Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series, it seems more appropriate to conclude with the conceptual climax provided by the closing chapter of The Shield Of Time rather than with the appendix, addendum or afterthought that constitutes "Death and the Knight." However, in terms of Everard's personal duration sense, he is last seen, in works by Anderson, not on the beach with Wanda in 1990 but in Paris with other agents in 1307. And Paris is just another assignment. His career continues. There is no indication of an approaching completion such as we see with Nicholas van Rijn, David Falkayn and Dominic Flandry. Those Technic History characters lack the advantage of an indefinitely prolonged lifespan.

Anderson in private correspondence did suggest the idea of a novel to round off the Time Patrol series but this was just an idea and did not happen. So Everard is still out there, sometime between 1307 and 1990 - unless we count the Multiverse contributions as canonical? In any case, he is still out there.