Potential recruits to Havig's anti-Eyrie organization:
shamans, witches, monks etc who produce helpful practical miracles;
peasants who always avoid bad weather when planting and harvesting;
merchants who always make lucky investments despite storms or pirates;
uncatchable spies and scouts;
boys said to advise their fathers.
Havig's group uses modern ways to learn languages fast and ancient ways to develop body and senses. Thus, Anderson acknowledges Eastern practices despite sometimes seeming to denigrate them.
In the space of two pages, Havig builds an organization that is way ahead of the Eyrie.This is not the Time Patrol but it is an impressive time travel organization.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Havig and Wallis SHOULD have been natural allies, if only the latter had not been so ruthless and believing in bad ideas. But, that might have made THERE WILL BE TIME too boring if there had been no CONFLICT in it. Or could there have been a different kind of clash of ideas, beliefs, ideologies?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Of course there could have been a different kind of conflict. I like THERE WILL BE TIME the way it is with representatives of the 19th and 20th centuries contending to guide the 21st and 22nd centuries.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, there would have been a different kind of conflict. I was wondering what that might have been if Wallis and Havig HAD been allies. A conflict or problem is one of the things that makes most novels interesting to read.
Ad astra! Sean
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