In Poul Anderson's Time Patrol Series
In Anderson's There Will Be Time
Manse Everard is often shown in his apartment. He is trained in the Academy in "Time Patrol" and attends an emergency meeting there in "Delenda Est." Wanda Tamberly is trained there in The Shield Of Time. Everard vacations at the lodge with Piet Van Sarawak in "Delenda Est" and with Wanda in The Shield...
Senlac, Jack Havig's home town, is realized in detail whereas his time travel base, although I have listed it here, is really only described telegrammically despite its being the main equivalent of the Academy in a different timeline. There Will Be Time is a thin and terse novel whereas the same narrative could have been presented and elaborated in a much longer volume.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Even if THERE WILL BE TIME was not as detailed in some parts as it could have been, I never thought it was "thin"!
Plus, Anderson's Foreword to TWBT had me worried for years and years.
Ad astra! Sean
It was physically thin.
Kaor, Paul!
My Doubleday copy TWBT has 181 pages, which was average for Anderson's books in the 1960s/early 70s when Anderson had to hew to the rigid page limits set by many publishers.
Ad astra! Sean
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