Anderson's Time Patrol series includes "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth" in which a Time Patrolman from the twentieth century interacts with four generations of a Gothic family. Thus, a time travel series incorporates generational historical fiction. The later Time Patrol instalment, "Star of the Sea," also includes mythological writing.
Anderson's Psychotechnic History includes "The Troublemakers," which, set inside a multi-generational interstellar spaceship, summarizes the first eighty years/four generations of the internal history of the spaceship.
Thus, in Poul Anderson's works, time travel and space travel both generate histories within histories.
See History In The Pioneer.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, with the Time Patrol stories you cited being more sophisticated and deeply thought out than "The Troublemakers."
Ad astra! Sean
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