Two Poul Anderson Series

I was impressed by the number of Time Patrol agents that wound up being mentioned in the previous post:

Manse Everard

Piet Van Sarawak

Chaim Zorach

Yael Zorach

Epsilon Korten

Carl Farness

Janne Floris

Stephen Tamberly

Helen Tamberly

Hugh Marlow

Wanda Tamberly

Tom Nomura

Feliz a Rach

First, this is far from a complete list of Patrol agents. Secondly, all but two of the characters in the above list appear only once. Very few character in this series return. The others that do are:

Merau Varagan (three appearances);

Keith Denison (two);

Raor (two; promoted from spear-carrier to major villainess).

Thus, the Time Patrol series contrasts sharply with the same author's Technic History in which several characters reappear more than once and also interact in various ways. Van Rijn appears five times, Falkayn twice and Adzel once before they meet. Then van Rijn appoints Falkayn to lead the trade pioneer crew of himself, Adzel and Chee Lan. Then we see both what the team is doing on other planets and what van Rijn is doing meanwhile back on Earth. Then a crisis requires van Rijn to get involved and to work alongside the members of the team. And so on: the action continues. And indeed continues long after this set of characters is long dead because the Technic History is a future history series.

Two major and different sf series by a single author.