Annals of the Time Patrol

by Poul Anderson

Hardcover, 1983

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Nelson Doubleday / SFBC (1983), Edition: 1st,[Book club ed.], 312 pages

Description

Forget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. But Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering-or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists-erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Karlstar
The Time Patrol stores are staples of 60's and 70's science fiction for a good reason. They are well written, interesting tales exploring scifi concepts of space and time. Not tremendously complex or convoluted or great character studies, just good basic science fiction, though without what we have
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now come to expect in the way of computer networks and nanites and viruses (computer and otherwise) and the staples of current scifi.
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LibraryThing member majackson
Guardians of Time = collection of stories about Manse Everard.
Time Patrolman = 2 novellas covering Manse Everard in more detail. These 2 stories have more emotional depth the the Guardians short stories can handle and is the better book.

Language

Original publication date

1960

Physical description

312 p.; 8.3 inches
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