Time Patrol [Anglais] [Poche]

In a fictive universe imagined in eight stories and one novel, time is mutable, and once time travel is discovered, humanity's remote descendants, the Danellians, set up the Time Patrol to ensure that no changes to the past will wipe out their own present. This construct (also used in The Shield of Time ) acts as a wonderful vehicle for Anderson's love of history. Manse Everard, whose presence unifies this collection, is recruited by the Patrol and rapidly ascends to the rank of roving troubleshooter. Frequently Everard finds that to preserve his own future he must destroy an alternate one, and his success is made bittersweet by his empathy for people who will never exist except in his own memory. The writing is excellent, distinguished by Hugo and Nebula winner Anderson's skill at weaving a background of sights and sounds to make the stage, and thus the actors, more real. Four of the stories are reprinted from his first Time Patrol collection (1960), four are from more recent volumes, and the novel is new with this book.
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YA-- An excellent compilation of all of the author's short stories about The Time Patrol plus a new novella, ``Star of the Sea.'' Readers are given fascinating glimpses of people and places throughout history--prehistoric, Persian, Roman civilizations, etc.--as seen through the 20th-century eyes of agent, Manse Everard. Well written, with believable characters, this is Anderson at his best.
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A new short novel ( Star of the Sea ) featuring time traveler Manse Everard's adventures in the first century highlights this collection of nine stories chronicling the experiences of "The Time Patrol." Anderson's love of the past and his understanding of historical cause and effect shine like a beacon throughout each of these stories (most of which have seen publication only in magazines). A personal favorite is "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," which captures the tragic feel of Norse legend as its time-traveling hero becomes trapped in the making of a myth. For history and sf buffs alike, this volume is highly recommended.
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Anderson has been producing Time Patrol yarns--all eight are collected here, plus an original--since 1954. The idea is that, since time is mutable, anyone possessing a time machine can change history, by accident or design; so the Danellian supermen who will evolve a million years hence have set up the Time Patrol in order to ensure that the past that leads to their development will actually occur. Unattached Agent Manse Everard is free to roam through time, tackling whatever problems arise and straightening kinks in the historical record: in A.D. 464, a do-gooder from the third millennium changes history in order to improve on what actually happened; a friend of Everard's accidentally becomes Cyrus the Great of Persia; Mongols invade America; Carthage defeats Rome; a time researcher changes the destiny of his 4th-century Goth subjects; 31st-century Exaltationist Merau Varagan tries to destroy 9th-century B.C. Phoenicia; Germans war with Romans in A.D. 70; and Varagan, again, meddles in the New World of the 16th century. Absorbing, accurate historical backdrops add depth and conviction to yarns that otherwise are neither startlingly original nor particularly rigorously worked out. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

An anthology of all the classic short tales of the Time Patrol, the future organization that insures the continuity of human history, also includes a new short novel about the patrol, Star of the Sea. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.