I reckon the first 50 pages, focusing on childhood and youth, were the strongest part of *There Will Be Time*. It was quite simple and contained the most well-defined relationships. Once Jack meets the other time travelers, I wasn't as invested in the actual plot. I like the idea of the time traveler organization, and their execution made sense, but as characters, they were a bit thin. It's interesting that Poul Anderson's *There Will Be Time* follows the older trope of an unbelievable story not...

A second chance to make a first impression!Like the novels of so many of his stellar peers from that 20th-century golden age of science fiction—Clifford D. Simak, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Robert Heinlein, Andre Norton, Fritz Leiber, Frederick Pohl, Robert Silverberg, and so many more—Poul Anderson's There Will Be Time can be read on two levels. Indeed, a brilliant, intensely evocative final chapter might well be considered a third meta-level to ponder.The hard science fiction tale on the sur...

Here's another book about a guy with a superpower (I seem to have read a lot of these lately). Jack Havig's power is the ability to move through time, either to the future or the past. When he travels to the future, he discovers a new Dark Age is coming, and humanity will descend into barbarism. Anderson wrote *There Will Be Time* in 1973, and I suspect he wasn't too fond of the dissent that was happening, the Watergate scandal, and so on. So, his time traveler sees all this leading to a collaps...

I can't even begin to tell you how much I love "There Will Be Time," or how many times I’ve reread it. It's one of those old favorites that pops into my head every couple of years, and I think, "Oh yeah! THAT one! Time for another read."I don't think I've ever come across a Poul Anderson story I didn't enjoy. Poul Anderson was an extremely skilled and prolific writer. He wrote extensively in the fantasy genre, but also penned a lot of time-travel books, and this one, "There Will Be Time," is amo...

"A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right." I've read There Will Be Time before--long, long ago. Knowing the story, but having it told anew was a treat. Perhaps the height of Poul Anderson’s skill as a storyteller. A slightly different take on time travel, but aren't they all? If you're looking for a classic sci-fi time travel book, this is a great read."Scientific information is only a glimmer on the surface of a mystery." Written in 1971, it grappled with the increasingly danger...

Storyline: 4/5Characters: 2/5Writing Style: 2/5World: 4/5What it did right: Time travel! Who would have guessed?! I sure didn't. There were two ways Poul Anderson made this unexpectedly enjoyable. First, time travel was largely consistent. That is such a rarity in the subgenre. Second, he did it without long digressions or asides into hard science fiction. Anderson gave reasonable and plausible answers of, that simply doesn't happen or I don't understand it myself, whenever a paradox came up and...

Honestly, I don't have a whole lot to say. I picked up "There Will Be Time" by Poul Anderson for a time travel book club, hoping for a good, classic 'What If' story packed with interesting ideas, and I suppose that's basically what I got. The characters are superficial, there's a complete absence of heart and soul, and the plot feels workmanlike. The ideas are interesting, landing somewhere between Clifford Simak's pastoral style and Robert Heinlein's militaristic approach. Ultimately, it's forg...

I'm finally catching up on some science fiction grand masters I've shamefully neglected, and I feel lucky that a group read focused on time travel novels led me to Poul Anderson's *There Will Be Time*, published in 1972. I'm embarrassed to admit I've only read "Tau Zero" from his impressive catalog of 50+ sci-fi novels. I've been missing out on another potential 5-star read for far too long! The early editions are hard to come by, so I was thrilled to find it included in the 1996 omnibus collect...

Poul Anderson’s 1973 novel *There Will Be Time* brilliantly demonstrates how his works can be divided into three main categories: science fiction, fantasy, and time travel. Normally, time travel books can be considered a sub-genre of science fiction, but here, more than in the *Time Patrol* stories or in *The Corridors of Time*, Anderson shows that it's a viable medium in its own right that actually combines elements of science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction into a seamless and entert...

Here's an inevitable, yet refreshingly different take on the time travel story. It answers the question of where you'd actually *find* other time travelers, and what you'd *do* once you found them. Apparently, the place to find time travelers is at Jesus' crucifixion. And what you do when you find them is form a league of time travelers who can hopefully make the future a better place. I've never seen another time travel author touch on these ideas, but honestly, they seem pretty obvious in hind...