Friday, 22 July 2022

Annals

At present, we are focusing just on Annals Of The Time Patrol because, for a while, it was the entire Time Patrol series. Later additions not only extended but also complicated the series.

Within Annals...:

The Guardians Of Time
"Time Patrol," Everard and Whitcomb
"Brave To Be A King," Everard and Denison
"The Only Game in Town," Everard and Sandoval
"Delenda Est," Everard and Van Sarawak
"Gibraltar Falls," Nomura, with Everard in a supporting role

A pattern, "Everard and -," is established, then broken. "Gibraltar Falls," although collected as Part III, was written a decade and a half later.

Time Patrolman
"Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks," Everard and Pum
"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," Farness, with Everard in a supporting role

Both the pattern and its alternative return. "Ivory..." seems to feature Everard on his own but the supporting character, Pum, grows in importance, becomes Everard's partner and joins the Patrol.

Anderson's Technic History covers several thousand years of future history. The Time Patrol series covers a much longer period of time but is able to present only brief visits to a few periods.

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