Mase Everard is a man with a mission. As an Unattached Agent of the Time Patrol, he's to go anyplace - and anytime! - where humanity's transcendent future is threatened by the alteration of the past. This is Manse's profession, and his burden: for how much suffering, throughout human history, can he bear to "preserve"? Wanda Tamberley is a Patrol member in search of her mission. Recruited from sunny California in the late 20th century, she'd rather serve as a scientist in the research branch, exploring Earth's flora and fauna in epochs long past. But as hints accumulate from the Patrol's mysterious leaders uptime, it's beginning to look as if a lot of human history depends on her personal decisions - and Manse's. Meanwhile, the Exaltationists are on the loose, determined to revise human history and rule Time forever and Manse Everard is sworn to stop them, no matter what the heartbreaking cost!
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For 35 years Hugo and Nebula award winner Anderson ( The Boat of a Million Years ) has written stories about the Time Patrol, whose members are charged with keeping history on track, unaltered, accidentally or deliberately, by time travelers. With this first novel set in that universe, Anderson vividly demonstrates his mastery of ancient cultures and history. After several grueling cases, agent Manse Everard is taking leave of the Pleistocene Age when it is discovered that history beyond the mid-12th century has changed drastically. Manse moves uptime to the new 1980s, an era in which the Renaissance has never happened, in which the Church, via the Inquisition, has stifled most dissent and scientific development, and the New World has barely been colonized. Everard and his new love and protegee, Wanda Tamberly, determine that the key to the change lies in the premature death in battle of Roger II, count of Sicily, grandfather of Frederick II, who has thus never been born. Although the Time Patrol saves the count, they are not able to redirect history to its conventional course. Ensuring the birth of another key figure, Pope Gregory IX, becomes critical. Anderson has produced a lively, thought-provoking tale.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
As agents of the Time Patrol dedicated to preserving the integrity of the past, Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly find themselves involved in ever-widening circles of intrigue that endanger the fabric of time itself. Based on his popular "Time Patrol" series of stories, this full-length novel by the author of The Boat of a Million Years (LJ 11/15/89) features many standard time-travel plot devices in addition to a wealth of historical backgrounds and alternate realities. Recommended for most sf collections.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
3 Short Stories, NOT 1 Novel!,
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This review is from: Shield of Time (Hardcover)
Even though the cover of Anderson's "Shield of Time" plainly states "A Novel of the Time Patrol," this is NOT a novel. It's a collection of 3 Time Patrol short stories (possibly novellas) loosely related only by their subject matter, main character(s), and some tacked on, tiny, inter-chapters. They're decently written short stories. But, an awful lot of the material is taken up with just describing the historical settings. I also was not very happy with the holes in the author's theory of time travel. But, overall, assuming you don't mind short stories instead of the advertised novel, I rate this at an OK 3 stars out of 5.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another fast paced romp through history.,
By Mike Cumpston (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Shield of Time (Mass Market Paperback)
One of the best in Anderson's long running Time Patrol Series. In this work, Manse Everard rescues history on a grander scale than ever before Anderson attacks the sometimes tedious concept of temporal paradox in a manner that allows the reader to suspend disbelief and enjoy the rich interplay of his characters and the high adventure characteristic of all of Anderson's works.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Free SF Reader,
By Blue Tyson "- Research Finished" (Legion clubhouse) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shield of Time (Hardcover)
Another Time Patrol novel with Everard Manse. A lot of this is taken up by a newer agent, a woman named Wanda Tamberley.
Manse is getting a bit worn down by the whole time policing thing, particularly given there is a faction with similar technology opposing them to their own ends. Wanda herself gets a bit attached to those she is interacting with in 13000BC.
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