The outer narrator relays the Time Traveller's account of his time travelling.
Poul Anderson relays Robert Anderson's accounts of Jack Havig's time travelling. (And one of Havig's fellow time travellers gave the time travel idea to Wells.)
An unnamed first person narrator relays Holger Carlsen's account of his time in the Carolingian universe.
The omniscient narrator describes Holger's later visit to the Old Phoenix inn between the universes.
We notice similarities between the introductory passages of Three Hearts And Three Lions and of There Will Be Time, e.g., physical descriptions of Holger Carlsen and of Robert Anderson.
This a quick post between preparations to travel tomorrow.
2 comments:
I'm unconvinced by any time travel story that has a 'fixed' timeline. Contingency is all!
Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!
Paul: And THE HIGH CRUSADE was relayed to us thru the chronicle written by Brother Parvus.
Mr. Stirling: If time travel is possible, then I have to agree contingency is more likely than time traveling in immutable timelines. Still, I appreciated the stories Anderson wrote using that idea, such as THE DANCER FROM ATLANTIS.
And I loved the cover painting Frank Frazetta made for that story!
Ad astra! Sean
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