Gods And Thieves Of Time

Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series is complete in two volumes:

Time Patrol, an omnibus collection of ten instalments of different lengths;

The Shield Of Time, a long tripartite novel.

Time Patrol ends with "Death and the Knight" although this short story is an immediate sequel to The Shield...

The beginning of The Shield... follows directly from the end of "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks" which is the sixth, instead of the concluding, instalment collected in Time Patrol.

If "Death..." and "Ivory..." were to be relocated, then the series could be presented in a more appropriate order:

the earliest five stories which had been collected as The Guardians Of Time before being subsumed into the omnibus collection;

two stories abut Northern European mythology which could together be entitled Gods Of Time;

two stories about the "Exaltationist" time criminals which could together be entitled Thieves Of Time;

the long novel and its short sequel.

The Gods Of Time

In "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," Time Patrol agent, Carl Farness, plays the role of Odin.

In "Star of the Sea," Time Patrol agent, Janne Floris, plays the role of the goddess.

But they are different stories.

The Thieves Of Time

In "The Year of the Ransom," Merau Varagan appears and some of his fellow Exaltationists are killed or apprehended.

In "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks," Manse Everard recounts his first encounter with Varagan and captures him at the end of the story.

And there are more Exaltationists in The Shield...