Guardians Of Time/The Guardians Of Time
Time Patrolman
The Year Of The Ransom
The Shield Of Time
"Death and the Knight," brief sequel to The Shield...
"Star of the Sea," long prequel to The Year...
The sequence is further complicated by the facts:
first that the opening passage of The Shield... follows directly from the end of "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks," the first of the two stories in Time Patrolman;
secondly that "Star..." refers back to the events of "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," the second story in Time Patrolman.
The series rearranges itself as it proceeds and has three successive culminations:
history is changed and has to be changed back in "Delenda Est," the concluding story of Guardians...;
history is changed again and the real purpose of the Patrol is revealed in the concluding part of The Shield...;
"Star...," the last long instalment to be written, presents a new slant on variable reality.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Fortunately, the Time Patrol stories can be enjoyed by readers not too concerned about internal chronology.
Ad astra! Sean
I liked the way random chance increased its role in the Time Patrol stories; ultimately, they had to remove a "chancer magnet" character.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
A tragic, ill-fated character, a man both Manse and Wanda liked and respected.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: for his time, he was something of an altruist.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Or ours for that matter.
Ad astra! Sean
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