Review

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There is a glaring error in the opening sentence.

There was a time when the only two Poul Anderson time travel volumes were Guardians Of Time (with four stories) and The Corridors Of Time and they were based on opposite, mutually incompatible, premises. After that, thankfully, the Time Patrol series grew, two more novels were published and other stories were collected.

The review accurately quotes Storm's summary of the Wardens-Rangers conflict:

life as it is imagined versus life as it is;

control versus freedom;

rationalism versus wholeness;

machine versus flesh.

The reviewer rightly says that these are false choices. We value a television (machine), the people that we see on it (flesh), the people who watch it with us (flesh) and indeed ourselves (flesh).

Storm asks:

"'If man and man's fate can be planned, organized, made to conform to some vision of ultimate perfection, is not man's duty to enforce the vision upon his fellow man, at whatever cost? That sounds familiar to you, no?'"

-The Corridors Of Time, CHAPTER FOUR, p. 34.

Yes, we plan and organize but not on the level of fate! Enforcement and "whatever cost" conflict with perfection. False choices.