Time Patrol

Contents1 • Time Patrol • [Time Patrol • 1] • (1955) • novelette by Poul Anderson55 • Brave to Be a King • [Time Patrol • 2] • (1959) • novelette by Poul Anderson113 • Gibraltar Falls • [Time Patrol • 3] • (1975) • shortstory by Poul Anderson129 • The Only Game in Town • [Time Patrol • 4] • (1960) • novelette by Poul Anderson173 • Delenda Est • [Time Patrol • 5] • (1955) • novelette by Poul Anderson229 • Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks • [Time Patrol • 6] • (1983) • novella by Poul Anderson333 • The Sorrow of Odin the Goth • [Time Patrol • 7] • (1983) • novella by Poul Anderson467 • Star of the Sea • [Time Patrol • 8] • (1991) • novella by Poul Anderson641 • The Year of the Ransom • [Time Patrol • 9] • (1988) • novel by Poul Anderson737 • Death and the Knight • [Time Patrol] • (1995) • novelette by Poul AndersonForget minor hazards like nuclear bombs. The discovery of time travel means that everything we know, anyone we know, might not only vanish, but never even have existed. Against that possibility stand the men and women of the Time Patrol, dedicated to preserving the history they know and protecting the future from fanatics, terrorists, and would-be dictators who would remold the shape of reality to suit their own purposes. But Manse Everard, the Patrol's finest temporal trouble-shooter, bears a heavy burden. The fabric of history is stained with human blood and suffering which he cannot, must not do anything to alleviate, lest his tampering bring disastrous alterations in future time. Everard must leave the horrors of the past in place, lest his tampering-or that of the Patrol's opponents, the Exaltationists-erase all hope of a better future, and instead bring about a future filled with greater horrors than any recorded by past history at its darkest and most foul.