Quite entertaining.The long drawn out Time Patrol series is really quite a masterpiece. Although slightly dated (at best), it is an awesome foray into time travel, creation of "time stumps" (in the Peripheral TV series terminology), and pulls off a decent rom-com over the course of its 11 story sequence.I play RPGs and have wanted to do a time travel genre based game. This is exquisite base material for such a campaign.Well recommended, with diverse vocabulary, rounded characters, well-thought o...

Found this on the same shelf as Annals of the Time Patrol and The High Crusade. Who knew I owned all these Poul Anderson books? I dont remember reading this before, but I definitely enjoyed it. I liked it better than Annals of the Time Patrol. This one is also a collection of stories about Manse Everard, Unattached Agent in the Time Patrol. This one also has some hinky writing for some of the women. (In fairness, the men of the Time Patrol often mention they wish the women of ancient times were ...

I finally decided to just stop reading about a hundred or so pages in. I have never made a habit of reading science fiction. I belonged to the Science Fiction Book Club but I kind of specialized in exploring the catalogues. That’s how I became familiar with the name Poul Anderson, a staple of the genre. But as it turns out, because I found him in a used book sale and figured he was worth trying at least once…No. No he was not. Shield of Time is history porn, mostly. Alternate history, sort of (t...

Trois courts romans plus des interludes. L'un assez plat dans la Bactriane hellénistique, un sur la Béringie, cette terre entre la Sibérie et l'Alaska, émergée jusqu'à la fin du paléolithique, belle histoire de "coup de pouce" (en bonne logique, interdit) à une tribu déshéritée, une troisième, sur une divergence persistante donnant des Paris ou des Londres de cauchemar.

I read this book out of order. I enjoyed it but cannot give it a fair review as it is a part of a series. I would guess if I read the series in the correct order this well written book would have been rated higher by me.

Poul Anderson's a great writer and this ages better than most sci-fi that traces back to pulps. It's hard though not to spend nearly every story wondering if the agents cause so much chaos then "why not just eliminate the Time Patrol itself?"

Beringia, the Wanda Tamberly story, is the pick of the bunch.

Six-Word Review: Time travel confusing, story also confusing.I found myself slogging through this tome. That is not my usual experience of Poul Anderson's work.In this book, Anderson features two major characters Manse Everard, an unattached agent of the Time Patrol, a rank few make it to and Wanda Tamberly, a time-traveling natural scientist whom he has mentored and also has feelings for. To say there is a plot for the entire book would be an overstatement. I believe each episode, though connec...

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 but survivalism. He is quick to let colleagues take the fall (unless he has sexual designs on them). The book was not sexist only because everyone was disposable. Woman, man, boy or horse. The dialogue between he and his love interests was superficial and canned. Ever arid has no interior life other than wanting to copulate and sleep. Even t...

One of Anderson's better efforts. if you like his time travel series, you'll enjoy this one.

Poul Anderson is one of my favorite authors; the Time Patrol one of my favorite sagas, ever since I first read a spanish translation of some of the first stories, I was hooked. That aside, I somehow ignored this book (a novel's worth of stories I hadn't read, building on the events and characters of the first compilation) even existed until very recently.On to the book itself: The stories are pretty fresh, the narrative style is good, although it does go off on expositional tangents ever so ofte...