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Title: Guardians of time by Poul Anderson, Sandra Miesal ISBN: 0-523-48510-7 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: 1981 Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Almost 5 stars. An interesting look at time travel.
Comment: These are interrelated short stories that deal with time travel, generally referred to as Anderson's "Time Patrol" series. In this series, man achieves time travel many millenia from now. To prevent time travelers from altering the past repeatedly (as is entirely possible in Anderson's universe) evolved men ("Danellians") from even further uptime establish the "Time Patrol." The mission of the Time Patrol is to prevent time travellers from altering the "true" past.
There are some excellent stories in this collection. "Brave To Be A King" is my particular favorite. In this story a time traveller is marooned in ancient Persia in the time of Cyrus the Great and becomes "enmeshed in the local gears." In fact, he becomes Cyrus! But despite being a King, he desperately wants to go home! This is a wonderful story with a gritty realism. Highly recommended.
The only downside to this collection is that you cannot appreciate it one story at a time, because to fully grasp each story you must understand the underlying "Time Patrol" premise. But Anderson takes care of that deftly, because the first story in the collection deals with the recruitment of a 1950s American into the Time Patrol. Not only is this a ripping good story, it does a good job of setting the reader up for the other stories in this collection and in the series. If you like this book, you'll also want to read Anderson's other Time Patrol collections, including "The Time Patrol" and "The Shield of Time."
Rating: 3
Summary: Sort of pointless novel
Comment: As in everything, once the humans found a new activity, they also feel the need to police it. Here when the humans find the way to travel through time, the desire to change the past is a by-product of such discovery, so the group of The Guardians of Time is created to precude distortions in the known time-line as well as to explore other possible developments that could have taken place.
The four short stories in this book are construed over the same premise and using the same lead character. The chosen events are: (i) The british isles in the XIX and V centuries; (ii)Greece in the III century B.C; (iii) California in the XIII century and finally, (iv) Rome during the Punic Wars.
Its obvious that these periods were choosen by the author out of his personal preference, but not because the felt that they were particularly important on the overall development of known events.
This is not a particulary interesting science fiction novel to have unless you are a hard die fan of Mr. Anderson.
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Title: Time Patrolman by Poul Anderson ISBN: 0812530764 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: October, 1983 List Price(USD): $2.95 |
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Title: The Time Patrol by Poul Anderson ISBN: 0312856369 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Shield of Time by Poul Anderson ISBN: 0812510003 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: There Will Be Time by Poul Anderson ISBN: 0812523083 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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