The Guardians Of Time (5)
Annals Of The Time Patrol (7)
The Time Patrol (9)
Time Patrol (10)
However, let us consider that earliest collection which was complete at the time of publication and for a decade and a half afterwards. It comprised four stories with some short connecting passages added.
The Shield Of Time, the long Time Patrol novel, comprises three narratives with connecting chapters. "Death And The Knight," the tenth story in Time Patrol, follows directly from the end of The Shield... and should really be collected there. It even mentions Nick, a Patrol agent introduced in The Shield... Thus, there is a structural similarity between Guardians... and The Shield..., one major difference being that the contents of Guardians... were written as a series whereas The Shield... was written as a unit.
We will look at some comparisons between Guardians... and The Shield... after I have sorted out some other stuff here!
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I would favor a hypothetical COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON collecting the Time Patrol stories in two volumes: THE TIME PATROL would have nine stories while THE SHIELD OF TIME would include "Death and the Knight." And I would like Sandra Miesel's essay "Of Time and the Rover" included with THE TIME PATROL.
Ad astra! Sean
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