Entertaining stuff.Poul Anderson's sprawling *The Shield of Time* series is a genuine masterpiece. Okay, it's a bit dated, but it's still an awesome deep dive into time travel, the creation of temporal paradoxes (think "time stumps" from the *Peripheral* TV series), and manages to be a surprisingly decent rom-com across its eleven stories.As an RPG player, I've always wanted to run a time travel campaign. This series provides absolutely exquisite base material for that kind of game.Highly recomm...

I found *The Shield of Time* on the same shelf as *Annals of the Time Patrol* and *The High Crusade*. Who knew I owned all these Poul Anderson books? I don't remember reading this one before, but I definitely enjoyed it. I actually liked *The Shield of Time* better than *Annals of the Time Patrol*. This book is also a collection of stories about Manse Everard, Unattached Agent in the Time Patrol. Like the others, *The Shield of Time* has some questionable writing when it comes to the female char...

I finally gave up about a hundred pages in. I've never been much of a science fiction reader. I was in the Science Fiction Book Club, but mostly I just browsed the catalogs. That's how I came across Poul Anderson, a genre staple. But, after finding him in a used book sale, I thought I'd give him a try… Nope. Just nope. *The Shield of Time* is basically history porn. Alternate history, kind of (another whole subgenre I'll probably never touch), because this sci-fi involves time travel. Maybe it's...

Three short novels plus interludes. One rather flat, set in Hellenistic Bactria; another about Beringia, that land between Siberia and Alaska, above water until the late Paleolithic, a beautiful story of giving a disinherited tribe a "helping hand" (illicit, logically); a third, about a persistent divergence resulting in nightmarish versions of Paris and London. If you're looking for well-written and thought-provoking time travel stories, Poul Anderson's *The Shield of Time* delivers. A must-rea...

I read "The Shield of Time" out of order, and while I enjoyed it, I can't really give it a totally fair review since it's part of a series. I have a feeling that if I'd read the series in the correct order, this well-written book by Poul Anderson would have gotten an even higher rating from me. So, as far as book reviews go, take this one with a grain of salt!

Poul Anderson's a fantastic writer, and *The Shield of Time* holds up remarkably well, especially considering its pulp sci-fi roots. However, it's almost impossible not to spend each story pondering if the agents create so much chaos, then "why not just eliminate the Time Patrol altogether?"

"Beringia," Wanda Tamberly's story, is definitely the highlight. A must-read for fans of time travel books!

Six-Word Review: Time travel? Confusing. Story? Also confusing.I found myself slogging through this tome, and that's not the Poul Anderson experience I'm used to.In *The Shield of Time*, Anderson introduces Manse Everard, a lone wolf agent in the Time Patrol (a rare achievement), and Wanda Tamberly, a time-traveling scientist he mentors and secretly admires. Calling it a 'plot' is generous; each episode feels like a standalone short story or novella, loosely connected.Wanda wrestles with her dut...

This book was just plain awful. I didn’t mind the in-depth historical details; however, I could muster no interest in a character with no redeeming qualities beyond survivalism. He's quick to let colleagues take the fall (unless he has sexual designs on them). The Shield of Time wasn't sexist only because everyone was disposable—woman, man, boy, or horse. The dialogue between him and his love interests was superficial and canned. Anderson's character is ever arid and has no interior life other t...

Definitely one of Poul Anderson's stronger works. If you're a fan of his time travel stories, you'll really enjoy The Shield of Time. A great read for anyone looking for thrilling science fiction book reviews.

Poul Anderson is one of my all-time favorite authors, and the Time Patrol series is one of my favorite sagas. Ever since I stumbled upon a Spanish translation of some of the early stories, I was completely hooked. That being said, I somehow missed that this book (a novel's worth of stories I hadn't read, expanding on the events and characters of the first compilation) even existed until very recently. Moving on to the book itself: The stories feel fresh, and the narrative style is solid, althou...